The Crooks Family: Christmas 2013 in NY

Once again, I have let time get away from me! Christmas & NYE have come and gone and we are almost to Valentine's Day! Let's back up and recap our Christmas this year...we drove to Endicott the Saturday before Christmas (a Wednesday this year). We would be in town until the following Saturday and had lots of fun plans!
Unfortunately, things did not play out as we had hoped! Justin's grandma (Nana) was admitted to the hospital the day we were driving up because she was having a hard time breathing. She would have to stay put at the hospital until Christmas Eve when the doctors decided to have her flown to the Cleveland Clinic.
Talk about change of plans! Also, Addy decided to get sick. The poor kid started off with a bad cough & cold. Justin, Addy & I were scheduled to head out to the cottage on the Sunday after we arrived, but Addy woke up with a horrible, nasty cough. Katie was only in town until Monday morning, so i knew I had to get a quick visit in ASAP, but I also knew I couldn't bring Addy to meet Katie's 2 month old baby and risk getting him sick. I decided to leave Addy home with Justin and head out alone which was a good choice because Addy eventually got worse. I got back from the cottage and Addy was in full blown clingy mode. She didn't really sleep well that night and when she woke up in the middle of the night she had a nice fever. Her cough kept getting worse and her fever wasn't going down and then she decided to throw up. So next stop for us, was the walk-in clinic. The doctor we saw was the same one we saw on our last trip! She said it was good we brought her in because she sounded like she was on the way to getting bronchitis. We got Addy some medicine and hoped she'd start feeling better soon.
Christmas Eve day was bizarre...pretty much everyone, except Addy & I, went to the hospital to spend time with Nana before she left for Cleveland. Addy was still sick, but I really wanted to go see Nana before she left, so I packed her up and off we went. Addy was thankfully in good spirits at the hospital and behaved the whole time. We were in and out in a half hour because I really didn't want Addy catching anymore germs! After, Addy & I went grocery shopping for a few of her favorite foods to hopefully get her eating again then we hung out alone til roughly 6:30 when family started showing back up. That night we went to Uncle Greg's & Aunt Lisa's for a late dinner. It was great to see everyone and Addy had such a great time with her cousin Jordan. Jordan is only 2 months younger then Addy and they were two peas in a pod! They had fun chasing around Nicole & Natalie's little dogs and just hanging out in general. Addy didn't get to bed until 10:30 that night, but it was definitely worth it. She slept good that night and woke up looking somewhat better on Christmas day. She still had her sick eyes and would go back & forth between feeling great and feeling yucky, but overall, the day was good. Addy opened WAY more presents than any child ever needs and she loved it all.
The day after Christmas it snowed a lot! Addy was on the mend, but I wasn't going to chance it and take her out in the cold to play. Instead we watched Grandpa do the snow plowing from inside. She loved watching him! For the remainder of the days we were in NY, we laid pretty low. We met up with no one else and just tried to enjoy the little time we had left. Here are some pictures from our trip...