Christmas with the Mellert's

Our drive to my parents went fairly smoothly as it was late and the roads weren't busy and Seth was fast asleep. However, when we pulled in the driveway, Seth awoke, and I mean awoke. It was like he thought it was morning, the start of a new day. When I finally put him down to sleep within 15 minutes he was crying. To make a long story short, I fed him (which I don't like to do since he doesn't need to be fed in the middle of the night, but it helps sometimes!) changed him and paced around the room with him for about 1/2 hour. In the morning we discovered, or rather Ted did when Seth was screaming, that his two top front teeth were cutting through! Needless to say, Seth had a cranky first Christmas. Reminds me of the song lyrics: All I want for Christmas are my two front teeth!

Seth opening gifts with Pappy Mellert

Seth on Christmas morning

Seth opening some more gifts on Christmas

Speaking of Seth opening gifts on Christmas, I will tell you about a little incident he had. He was sitting on the rug like you see in the photo opening gifts and there were a few gifts surrounding him. Somehow he tumbled over landing on a nearby gift and hitting the side of his eye on the corner of the box. He screamed and screamed and nothing would soothe him not even his nuk. I got him some ice to put on it while my mom held him. After a while of having the ice my mom was just holding it in her hand. She was talking to one of us and Seth grabbed hold of the ice and flung it back and hit himself in the head right where he just did only minutes before! Oh my! You can sort of see the mark in the picture above just to the side of his left eye. The picture below is Ted going on his first snowmobile ride ever! He is on the snowmobile I grew up riding and had lots of memories on!

We had a nice time eating and opeing presents at my parents and seeing my aunts, uncles, and cousins. Our trip back to Ephrata however was not so great. We ate dinner with my parents, sister and brother in-law and then went to a furniture store that is going out of business. Ted and I would eventually like to get bedroom furniture and a new couch since we've never bought these since being married. Anyway, while at the furniture store, Ted and I discovered we have very different tastes! Haha! Funny but not so funny. So, we did not purchase anything and probably won't for a while until we can come to an agreement. Also, we have kind of been holding off until we figure out where we move next and know the dimensions of the rooms. Back to the story... We never did change Seth's diaper all the while we were at dinner and the furniture store and then we left to drive back to Ephrata from the furniture store. We had to stop for gas and Seth was awake so I decided to go inside and change his diaper and put on his sleeper. Of course however for some unknown reason the gas station had no diaper changing station. I had to change Seth and had no choice but to do it on the floor of the bathroom. I had a little changing pad with me to lay down under him but that didn't help the diaper rash he had. He was screaming and tears were rolling down his cheeks and I felt so bad for him but I just had to keep going all the while being mad that the stupid gas station didn't have a proper place to change him. Ugh. I was mad. I came out of the bathroom and Ted said he could hear him crying. I was so irritated I just said "lets go" and walked straight to the car. The rest of the ride home was fairly silent as I had to get over my being mad. So, mothers out there beware if you have to change your child and you are at a gas station, they may not have what you need!