A Rhino Household Christmas

Merry Christmas to all!  We hope that Santa and his elves blessed you all with family time, love and warmth and a few gifts thrown it wouldn’t of hurt either, lol.

The Rhino household had a merry Christmas this year, being blessed with a healthy son and family galore {a few friends thrown in too!}. 

This year with Christian was another one for the books.  As he has gotten older, we as parents are finding it harder to shop for the Rhino {of course no Rescue Heroes again this year or Tonka trucks!!}.  This year his list consisted of CDs {about 20 in all} and really nothing else.  So yep you guess it, Rhino was blessed with some music this year.  Christian was also blessed with some very precious memories passed down by his Great Grandpa Frank {or Papa as we call him!}.  Christian received 2 books from Papa regarding Papa’s time served in the Army during WWII.

And last but not least, we were all blessed with some family time!  Gathering with both of the families is always a good time to be had and we are truly grateful for all the love, cheer, and laughter that we can experience with them because you never know when it will be the last.  And that we did, cherish our family gatherings, as you can see here.

Run, Run as Fast You Can!

Yes that’s right the Rhino has been given official RUNNING notice tonight.  We just got home about an hour ago from a session with PT Bob and he gave Christian the go ahead to start running.  YEA!!!! Rhino can even do the elliptical, treadmill, and the stair stepper.  In words of Rhino “I can finally get my legs back”.  So hopefully he’ll be doing more of this…..

 

and less and less of this………

In fact it’s a bet to see if Rhino will go running tomorrow and on his first day of Christmas break even…hmmm….my guess is NOT!

That’s ok, because little does he know that mom is going to start some boot camp PT of her own here in the house.  Maybe I’ll give Rhino a RUN FOR HIS MY MONEY once spring hits {and then maybe not, lol!}.

Are you ready?

Well the tree is up, cookies have been baked {and eaten I might add}, Christmas shopping is DONE and the presents are wrapped….all is in the holiday groove in the Rhino household.

Rhino still has PT 2 times a week.  Some have been asking why Christian is still in PT….well simple answer is, he had major surgery on his ankle {a bone removed and LOTS of nerves re-routed} and literally has to learn to re-balance himself and in a way walk all over again.  His foot moves now in ways that it never did before so hence his whole body has to learn to adjust to the movement.  He’s just now getting to the point that he can put some impact on it, like jogging.  Running is still out of the question and so is jumping but his ankle is getting stronger and his demeanor is great.  The biggest fear right now, since we have been blessed with snow  is that he takes a tumble on the slippery ice and does damage or breaks something BUT that is not going to happen so……

In other news Rhino made a trip to Gettysburg for Thanksgiving with the Eggie Family.  It was an opportunity that presented itself and literally couldn’t of been passed up so, Christian left Thanksgiving day and returned the following Monday.  Our first Holiday without the kid and boy it just didn’t seem right but I guess it’s a preparation for when he moves up and onward huh?

Really other than the holiday parties, school winding down for Christmas break, and preparing for Rhino’s up and coming 16th birthday {um that’s all I hear about now is how many more days till the big 1-6!}, the Rhino household has been running as normal {and the running part isn’t an exaggeration!}

We hope you all have a blessed Christmas {or whatever holiday you may celebrate!} and a healthy, fun filled 2010!!