We had a very great Christmas (or 5!) this year. Our festivities started when we were in Idaho at grandpa and grandma Anderson's house with aunt Heather. Tessa got a Fisher Price puppy, AJ got a Imaginext airport, Nathan got Angry Bird (Kinex) Legos and they all got Despicable Me 2.
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Merry Christmas!
We had a very great Christmas (or 5!) this year. Our festivities started when we were in Idaho at grandpa and grandma Anderson's house with aunt Heather. Tessa got a Fisher Price puppy, AJ got a Imaginext airport, Nathan got Angry Bird (Kinex) Legos and they all got Despicable Me 2.
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Saturday, December 21, 2013
Another trip to Urgent Care
We got home from our trip to Idaho on Friday night. All we wanted to do on Saturday was relax! Well...that didn't really happen. David got up with the boys in the morning so I could sleep in. They got up around 07:30, at 08:00 I was awakened by a really loud, long cry, the kind of cry when something is really wrong. I jumped out of bed and ran into the living room to see David over AJ. And then I saw the blood. It was coming from his mouth profusely. David said that AJ and Nathan were playing Legos together at the table, then Nate got mad about something and pushed AJ off the chair. After we got the blood cleaned up we saw the cut, he almost cut all the way through the lip and back almost an inch. It was bad! We thought he might need stitches, so David took him up to Urgent Care. He had to wait almost 3 hours for the doctor to tell him that they don't stitch inside kids mouths unless it goes completely through because the kids will just mess with the stitches and pull them out. At least he got a Popsicle and a teddy bear out of the trip. In true Anderson fashion, he took the whole incident like a champ. He was fine when he got back from the doctor and only complained about it a few times. The pictures I got of it don't do the cut justice. It was bad.
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The Longest Day
Eventually, they announced that all passengers had to deplane. So we were left to find a place in the crowded terminal. We ended up sitting by a closed down TSA station, in an area of the terminal where the boys could run around a bit. AJ took about 3 minutes to figure out how to climb the gate, and we had to collect him off of it multiple times. AJ also foreshadowed the upcoming nightmare by bolting when no one was watching him. If you looked at your phone, or at Tessa, when you looked up he would be 20ft away running at top speed. We REALLY wished (not for the last time) that we had some carabiners and rope, so that we could tether him to the wall.
After a 2 hour ground stop and more Jamba Juice, they told us that the snow had let up a little, and we were going to try to fly out. We boarded again, and it looked like our trip would have only a small hiccup that would not even be worth mentioning on our blog.
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WRONG!! |
The kids just wanted to sit with their Mommy, so I had three seats to myself.
The announcements had been made, the safety message had been given, seatbelts buckled, we waited for about fifteen minutes until... the customer service representative boarded the plane to tell us that our airplane had mechanical problems and that we were going to be moved to terminal C6 to wait for another aircraft to take us to Atlanta.
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the pushback got stuck in the snow pushing back another aircraft |
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I woke up to an email alert that our flight had been delayed to 11:00 AM. The shuttle was full until 10:00, and since we didn't want to be stuck at the airport for hours and hours again, we decided to get a taxi. This is the low point of our story. Let me give you a piece of advice. DON'T TRY TO GET A TAXI IN SLC. I called every taxi company on the internet and NONE OF THEM WOULD ANSWER THEIR PHONE!!!! I am still angry about this. How can taxi companies exist without answering the phone to arrange pickups? Is the taxi infastructure in SLC a hoax meant to enrage the denizens that are marooned in it's airport hotels? Audrey and I ended up fighting about it in front of the kids (we both got scolded by them. Nate kept saying "be nice to each other" and AJ ran up to me and yelled "DADDY STOP IIIIIIIIITTTT." In my viking bezerker mode, I am not sure if I remember this correctly, but I think that a family prayer was said, and the flight ended up getting delayed to 11:45 (meaning that the 10:00 shuttle would get us to the airport on time).
The milk tested positive for explosives again (what is in AJ's sippy sup? Is that why he is so crazy? Are we feeding him dynamite milk?) Audrey got the pat down this time, but the flight home was as uneventful as the flight to SLC the previous morning. Nate watched "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" four times (no exaggeration) and AJ mostly played on the IPad, and after Aunt Caitlin picked us up from the airport at about 6:00 PM, and "the longest day" was finally over.
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Grandpa and grandma Anderson's house
Being silly on the floor |
Learning to sit! |
"Look mom, I'm holding Tessa" |
Grandpa's glove (almost) fit... |
SO sweet! |
Look at that face |
Playing with his new Christmas toy |
Lego + Imaginext = lots of fun |
Enjoying a nap with grandpa |
Playing games with grandma |
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He was able to open the door with grandpas gloves on, impressive. |
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Trying on hats at CAL Ranch |
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Playing with Aunt Heather |
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