12.25.21 Trach Floor 59

Merry pre-Christmas. :) We decided as a family to wait to have Christmas until Aimee is home. We don’t know how many days to count down, but I am starting to feel it coming closer. Up until now there have been so many areas to work on that it wasn’t even possible to consider home. I am really hopeful that we are within a month of being home, maybe just a couple weeks even. Of course, you all know that my prediction skills this summer were… well, wrong. Lol. 

Up until an hour ago, Aimee was awake all day yesterday, a good portion of last night (every time I saw her through the night), and ALL day today. Actually we tried to get her to nap, because she was getting jumpy and exhausted. So so so good to have her alert and awake for this past two days though. What a sweet Christmas present! Actually, she gave us a couple of smiles on Christmas Eve night, so two Christmas presents. 

We had such a fun whirlwind Christmas Eve party in Aimee’s room last night with all the kids together. We opened our stockings, a few presents from

Santa, had cupcakes, read a story. It was good chaos. Over too soon. One of my favorite parts was giving the kids their annual photobooks and seeing them all sit to read them. Even Aimee looked at every single page of her book! 

The younger 4 all got to go to a family Christmas today and it looks like they had a memorable time. Spending time with family, taking fun pictures, and they even got to build a snowman! Check out their awesome new hats. 😍