We made it!

It's a christmas miracle. We made it to MN on Saturday morning during the mid-atlantic blizzard of '09. We were the last plane cleared to take off from Philly airport at 10am. I'm so glad we made it here safely, and even gladder that we didn't have to spend two days (with two kids) stranded at the airport.

I'm also glad that we missed the 2 feet of snow...however, we're getting a winter storm here on Christmas so I guess there's no avoiding it.

Owie owie in my ear

So poor Alice has been on antibiotics since Thanksgiving due to an ear infection that won't go away. A 10-day course of amoxicillin didn't cut it. She took her last dose of Augmentin today. Fingers crossed that it kicked this sucker. I'm just hoping that her ears stay healed until we land in Minnesota on Saturday morning. Double ear infection + 3 hour plane ride does not equal happy baby.

Look at me!

Don't let little Missy fool you. I put her on her hands and knees. She's nowhere near crawling yet. I think she's getting a third tooth though.

Visiting Santa

Although we didn't get a tree this year, we did visit Santa.
Who the heck is this guy?



Have you been a good boy?

I was surprised that Lucius ran right up to him. He also told Santa that he wants the batman cave for Christmas.

Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving at the Angelones. Good food. Good company. Not so good poker game...

deep fried turkey


Not so good picture of us.


Alice and "Uncle" Mike.


Daddy's little girl. She's wearing a different outfit in these pics due to a major poop explosion. You know it's bad when it takes both Mommy and Daddy to clean her up...she had to have a bath mid-thanksgiving feast.


Bonnie with a monkey on her back setting the adult table.


The baby table. So grown up. Alice is already drinking wine. She prefers reds like her mama.


The weirdo boy table.


mmmm....antipasti....


Best buds.


Look, Tom's winning here! We can just pretend like he didn't lose all of his money. Damn Hoover.

They have graduated to

taking baths together! Cute, but dangerous.

Happy Birthday Mr. Mark!

Alice's (and Lu's former) daycare team

Fancy Pants and Sweetie Pie

Yes. He's still wearing his Sportacus costume.




Exhausted. Taking on a nap on the couch is always the best. She put the elephant on her head. I didn't.

We got a tooth!

Finally. Bottom right just started poking through.

The nice thing about having kids with birthdays five days apart is that it's easy to compare their development vis the blog... and boy are they different! I started this blog 3 years ago on Thanksgiving when Lucius was about 8 months. Compared to Alice he was huge and already crawling and pulling himself up. That Christmas he got his first push toy and was pushing it all over the place! Meanwhile Alice still doesn't move. She's definitely getting more adventerous and going from sitting to her belly, but that's about it. It's fun to see how different they are already.