Holiday post-mortem

Overall the holidays went pretty well. The time before Christmas was extremely busy with activities (cookie decorating, swimming, babysitting my nieces), fixing food for Xmas Eve and trying to prevent a visit to the emergency vet. The last half was pretty low key so we were able to recover before heading back to work.

One of the most memorable moments was when our older dog Onyx swallowed an avocado pit on Xmas Eve. They are slippery little suckers and neither my mom nor I could get to it before the dog did. I thought it might be ok but my hubby convinced me to call the emergency vet. The nice lady on the phone said that I should either bring our dog in or we could try to induce vomitting ourselves. Considering it was a holiday and we were many miles from home, we decided to try it ourselves.

This involved force-feeding Onyx a certain dosage of Hydrogen Peroxide then waiting 10 minutes to see if anything happens. If no results, try again. After the 3rd dosage (and maximum recommended dosage before we would have to go to the vet), up came the avocado pit. B had the worse end of the bargain, other than Onyx of course. He held down the dog and forced her mouth open while I poured the hydrogen peroxide in. He also had to sit and wait to see if anything happened and clean up the mess afterward. I wasn't much help because I was in the middle of finishing Xmas dinner, getting dressed and my gag reflex is 100x more sensitive than normal right now. Lucky guy.

Xmas day we had dinner at my aunt and uncle's then headed to B's family about 4 hours away. We celebrated Xmas with them the next day (B's sister had a late shift at the hospital on Xmas day). Almost ended up going to the Emergency Room because Miss M hurt her arm while playing. Took us a while to figure out what was wrong and it turned out to be minor. One of those times when having a sister-in-law who is an Emergency Room nurse came in handy.

On the 26th, we celebrated Miss M's birthday. B's sister made a really cute cake and Miss M mostly ate the icing. Big surprise. She had a lot of fun opening presents (hers and everyone else's too). Was very careful on where the torn wrapping paper went. Usually tried to give it to her cousin Jacob for some reason.

Sunday we headed home and enjoyed a week of relaxation. Didn't do much on New Year's Eve. Just went out for dinner. I didn't even make it until midnight (shocker) but I did wake up around that time due to some fireworks nearby. Celebrated Miss M's birthday again on New Year's day. Some of her favorite words right now are chocolate and cookie. Since neither B or I are huge fans of regular cake, we decided to make a birthday brownie for Miss M instead. She didn't seem to mind one bit. Miss M is definitely a chocoholic like her daddy.

The last holiday event was a visit from my dad and stepmom. They weren't able to come up north until after Xmas so they made the extra trip to come up to see us. It was an odd way to end a two week holiday because they came up on Sunday night and headed home on Monday morning not long after we had left for work. It didn't seem like the weekend was over yet because we had visitors. Miss M had a blast during their visit. She is still asking where her Papa is.

Some fun news I learned about recently is that my friend PIC is also pregnant and due in June and another friend at work is due August 1st. I'll have someone to talk baby stuff with!