Christmas Fun

We had a great first Christmas with Garrett. He had lot of fun opening his presents.

Garrett daycare is closed for a week so we have been keeping busy. We went to an indoor park on Friday. Garrett had a blast. I think we will be going again soon.


Here are some pictures from Christmas.



Garrett was eager to open presents.



His first Christmas eve pasta dinner. A Dattalo family tradition.


Checking out his train that Santa left for him.



Now we can't get him off it.

Merry Christmas

Wow what a year it has been.

Dec of last year we first heard about Garrett. Then just 3 months later March 17th we got the call. Garrett was ready to come home. Mike and I scrambled around for 2 days fretting over the luggage,gifts and what Garret would need on the 13+ hour flight home.

March 19th at 7:30 in the morning we were at the airport. We knew we were on the same flight as another family. We figured we would not know who they were until we got our connection in Chicago. We'll it turned out we stuck out like sore thumbs in Minneapolis. We were all at the terminal early and fretting if we would make our connection in Chicago. We had lot of fun touring Korea with them.

I got to stay home with Garrett for 3 months. That time flew by. Garrett had us on our feet from the get go. He army crawled every where. Today Garrett is talking up a storm. Most of it we don't understand. But he likes to say Momma(still means food) He just never has kicked the meaning from Korea. He is starting to say Mom and Mommy. Yay! He also is saying Dadda,ball,dog,and a few others.. It's just a matter of time before he talks our ears off.

Garret is doing great at Goddard(daycare) He loves to see his friend everyday.

We are so blessed to have him in our life and are very thankful this holiday season.
On that note. Here are some Santa pictures. We we not prepared to be in the photos. But Garrett wanted us to sit on Santa lap.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Santa's coming to town.

Where has Dec gone! Well I think I had a post about a month or so ago titled "The calm before the storm". Well that has turned out to be an under statement. Our house has been full of sickness since about thanksgiving. Garrett ended up getting pneumonia last week even tho he was on antibiotics for an ear infection. The first antibiotics should of helped the pneumonia but it didn't. It was kinda scary. Luckily we didn't end up in the hospital. After multiple trips to the doctors they got him on the right antibiotics and he bounced backed. He stayed home for a week and got all better. Thur and Fri grandma Scott came and stayed with him so he could have a break from daycare. I do have to share one cute thing that Garrett did while he was sick. Last Tuesday I was going to work from home. Well Garrett had other plans. Garrett just wanted to sleep on the couch next to me. I started up my computer and started to login in to work. Garrett woke up for a few minutes. He looked at my computer on my lap and looked up at me. He took one finger and shut the top of computer. He looked back up at me and went back to sleep. I called in sick that day and we had a Pajama day on the couch.

Garrett got to see Santa for the first time on Saturday. Garrett's daycare had Santa come and they had professional pictures taken. It was so fun. Garrett did really good. He was a little scared. But, it helped then Mike and I sat on Santa lap too. We got a fun family picture. Garrett also let them take a few of just him and Santa. He looks a little scared but he wasn't screaming and crying. I'll post one when we get them.

So this week Garrett is all better and waiting to get sick again. He had his 18 month well check today. We're going to start him on some vitamins to see if that helps at all. But Mike is now sick. He woke up on Saturday with a nice bright red eye. Yup you guessed it. On Monday he found out he has Pike Eye. We are just hoping Garrett and I don't get it. I have no idea where he got it. Then today he went back to the doctors because he was still feeling really yucky and his eye basically swelled shut. Turns out he was allergic to the drops and he has bronchitis. Fun times.

On a brighter note we are getting our cabinets refaced this weeks. It looks so good. It amazing. We still have to get new counter tops and and a new floor and two new doors. But one thing at a time.

Oh yeah one more thing. We are officially on the waiting list for a baby girl. We went on the list Dec 4th. We had our home visit on the Dec 4th. It was really easy. I didn't stress out about it this time like the last time. Garrett did really well. He was a show off.

Ok I think I have typed enough for now.

Stay warm.

1 year ago today

Wow it hard to believe it has been a year already since we got the call. At 11:00 in the morning Dec 10th we got the call. There was a baby boy waiting for us in Korea.

Here is one of the first pictures we saw of him.





1 month



18 months

We are so blessed! It has been such an amazing journey.

Little G man is battling Pneumonia right now. Looks like he's might be on the turn around. I'll write more later.