Christmas, Part 1

I haven't posted in a while because there's so much to post! I've decided I'll just have to break it up, so here's the first part of Chrismas:

Patsy, Luke and Merissa were all here for Christmas, which was wonderful! On Christmas Eve, Patsy, Merissa and I went to get pedicures and left Em with the boys. The pedicures were an adventure...but when we got back to the house, Shawn mentioned that Emmeline wasn't acting herself, and that he thought her teeth were bothering her, so he'd given her some Tylenol. She was acting kind of whiny, so I picked her up, and could immediately tell she was burning up. Thermometer read 102 axaillary. Awesome. It was 3:30 on Christmas Eve - we were all getting ready for church and dinner with my whole family. Great. We dressed her up, and prepared for a rough evening, packing the thermometer and baby tylenol in the bag; I didn't want to stay home and skip church if she just had a teething fever, and we were going to hold her in our laps anyway, not take her to the nursery.

Church was great, she just sat in our laps and languished. Got to dinner, more of the same, but more whining, because she didn't like what we were feeding her. Also, 4 hours had passed, so we dosed her up again. She didn't sleep very well all night, and was still fevery Chrismas morning, but played along pretty well so long as we kept to the four hour dosing of Tylenol. She opened lots of presents, and really enjoyed all of the babies, books, clothes, and toys she got.