Vacation Day 40: Decompress

Maria slept in today because she was sick with a cold. Andrew got up with the boys and realized they had to go to the post office. For some reason, he wanted to take everybody’s packages to the post office. Vavo and Vavu had to mail Sacramento presents, and we had to mail stuff to Angela in Idaho. So Drew went to the post office where his sister Steph works and mailed everything out. Then he went shopping for Maria’s present, but didn’t find anything. After he came back, Maria woke up. Everything was sitting on the living room floor to be unpacked. All 9 suitcases plus carryons, just sprawled out in the dining room. We started unpacking, a few suitcases at a time. We also took breaks and lazed around, ate some brunch, and got ready to go to Steph’s house to make Christmas cookies. Madison was over and playing with the boys.

Right before we were ready to leave, Aiden’s fingers got slammed in the bathroom door by accident. The kids had been playing back in the hall, and Vavu went back there to tell them to stop, and when he shut the bathroom door so they wouldn’t play there anymore, Aiden’s fingers were there and got smashed. He cried and cried for at least an hour. But it didn’t end up being too much damage. Just some scraped skin. We thought maybe his fingers were broken, based on the crying level. But after some ice and some tv distraction and the promise of cookies, things calmed down.

Jeremy went to take a nap while we finished Aiden’s distraction movie. Then Aiden went to take a nap while Madison went home and Vavu went shopping for Christmas dinner. Drew layed in with the kids to make sure they went to sleep. Then he fell asleep. Then when he came out, Maria was asleep. We were a tired group.

After all of our naps, the kids went to decorate Christmas cookies with Madison and Steph. Andrew and Maria wrapped presents. And that pretty well sums up the day. We couldn’t muster energy up for much else.

Getting ready to leave for Madison's house: Jeremy and Aiden in front of Vavu's Christmas Tree

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The best part of day 40 was decorating cookies.
The worst part of day 40 Aiden’s finger getting smashed.
What we learned on day 40 was check for fingers in the door, Jeremy still calls Uncle Howie “More Toys”.
The weather on day 40 was sunny, high of 64 degrees.