Amelia had a busy first Christmas filled with gifts and travel. Her “Mimi” Witte came to visit from Louisville, KY on December 21st and stayed till the 28th. On Christmas Eve we all piled in the Honda CRV and headed down south for Christmas in Waycross, GA at the Gillis home. While in Waycross, we stayed at the Pond View Inn in downtown.
As always, Amelia was the star with her cousins, aunts, uncles, and of course with her grandparents. At the annual family Christmas night gathering at the Gillis home Amelia’s young cousins took turns holding her while posing for pictures with her. Amelia seemed to have the largest stack of gifts that evening. It is wonderful to be under one year of age! Christmas evening ended at the annual large family gathering at Wanda and Tandy Morton’s Waycross home. It was a late night for Amelia, 9:30 PM.
The day after Christmas it was time for more adventures in travel with Amelia as we headed down to Amelia Island for the day. This was Amelia’s third trip to her namesake island. A dinner at the restaurant PLAE (People Laughing And Eating) wasn’t really her thing as she was fussy during our meal. The next morning it was back to life on the road to Atlanta. Amelia spent her last Friday of the year at the High Museum of Art. This was her first trip to an art museum.
New Year’s Eve was a normal bed by 7:30 PM for Amelia. She entered her first new year asleep while we sipped wine downstairs.
Early in the morning on January 2nd Amelia had a quick surgery to remove a Stent from last month’s surgery. Hopefully for now our major medical stories with Amelia have ended.
