Wednesday, December 30, 2009

So, this is Christmas...

We hope you have enjoyed your Christmas and holiday moments with your families. We certainly did and we have some pictures (and a movie) to prove it.


B borrowed a Santa suit from our neighbors

He also tried eating C's fancy new slippers that Aunt Adrienne sent her

He smashed our breakfast muffins on the floor and swiftly ate them up

Santa brought a lot of presents. One of the most fun is a new sled (besides C's new Dr. Barbie)...

Both kids loved to ride around. Doesn't B remind you of the kids in A Christmas Carol? They had so many layers on they couldn't move!

There were several wipe-outs

But, when they weren't falling, they were both really cute

Our big present was a new video camera. We've been getting a lot of great video and here are 3 fun clips that we got over Christmas:



So, J's running has forced him to run outside in the cold and snow. To fight the weather, he's had to find new cold weather running clothes. This is a picture of him in his new cold weather running tights (which are actually great for the cold). He says that he never imagined he'd actually wear running tights in his life, but he likes them a lot. On Christmas, the only thing he could think of to describe the new pants comes from the classic Christmas song, Deck the Halls:

don we now our "gay" apparel...

(Don't worry, he normally wears shorts or pants over the tights. This was taken more for effect...)

Monday, December 21, 2009

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Happy Birthday C!

Here are some fun photos from our little girl's birthday celebrations. After changing her mind many a time, I was able to convince her that it would be fun to do a 'Fancy' party, in the style of Fancy Nancy (cute little girl from recent children's books). We made our own 'fancy' invitations...

Our own 'fancy' cake - Nancy loves butterflies because they are so 'fancy'...
Decorated our own 'fancy' princess crowns...
Played 'fancy' dress-up games...
and had a regular ol' 'fancy' time.

It's been so fun to have this cute little girl in our family. She is very caring, observant, and creative!

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Little B

Today we would like to feature our son. Unfortunately, as the second child, it's pretty likely that he has been denied photo and video opportunities which our daughter has had. Now to rectify the situation, we produced a video that we were never able to produce of our little girl.

Enjoy little B!


Sunday, December 13, 2009

Feliz Navidad!

In honor of our daughter and the previous blog post, she wanted to post a video of her singing (a much shortened version) of Feliz Navidad!

Enjoy!


Sunday, December 6, 2009

Highly Cultured Child

Tonight, I asked the nina what she wanted me to sing to her for her good night song. I suggested maybe she would like a Christmas song, thinking I would sing "Silent Night," or, "Away in a Manger."

My dear daughter had something else in mind-

In the sweetest, most sincere voice, she said:"Yeah mom, will you sing, 'Feliz Navidad'?"

Good thing the lights were already off,( as I struggled to get started, and finish, the never-meant-to-be-a-lullaby version of Feliz Navidad,) or else she would have been saddened by my lack of taking the moment at all seriously.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Holiday Time

With the holidays upon us, we have started to decorate our home, and our little girl is loving it! So much that is sparkly and bright- what not for a girl to love?!

My favorite moments of all of this so far, have been each time she says,
"Mom, can we hand the beanstalks now?"
And so today, we hung up our beanstalks!

Besides that, I've got too many photos to share in linear fashion. Here are a few from Thanksgiving weekend. We had a great time with Ya- Ya and Grandpa here to visit.

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