Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

1.10.2010

3 Months in 30 Seconds

Go!



Amy the Lady Bug,


Kala the Bumblebee


(note the stinger),


Sara the Dragonfly,


and Claire the Butterfly.


Amy the 6 Year Old,


with best friend Anna Grace,


and Kala the Birthday Chorister.


Pile of Christmas presents before...


...and after.


Happy Amy, and


CHEESE!

Done.

1.12.2008

Take 47

Christmas picture of the girls in their Christmas dresses (with their cousin Cadence).

12.30.2007

Top Ten Reasons Why It's Good to Have All Girls #10


#10: It's really easy to make them match.
These are the girls' Christmas dresses for 2007. They had their pictures taken in them, along with their new cousin Cadence (the new daughter of Tammy's sister Maria and hubby Will). Cadence had the same dress as the rest of the girls. When the pictures come in, we will post. I wish that we were able to go the studio, sit for a picture, and immediately walk away with a digital file that we can do with as we please. Instead, the studios are still taking analog photographs, and they still "own" the image, and it is probably illegal to even scan it to post it on a blog. Oh well..
We are all decompressing from the holidays. The kids are enjoying their new things. There is a problem with the train table though. The kids like to take the track apart, and it's so complicated to put together that it just ends up staying apart until a tall person comes along to put it back together for them. We are probably going to just glue sections of it together and leave them a few track pieces separated so that they can be creative.
Sara is slowly becoming more interactive. She has smiled (real smiles) for Mommy a couple of times (all Daddy gets is gas smiles--except for one time that looked like it may have been real, but was still very likely just gas). It is difficult to have to wait so long for the interactive phase. She is almost 4 months old (but only 2 months from her due date). She has beautiful blue eyes, and she's somehow looking more like a Hood everyday. I guess you are what you eat.

12.26.2007

Christmas 2007

Santa brought the kids a new playroom. The kids got a train table, an easel, and a play table . . .


Grandma Baker helped Santa with the train table (it was a little out of his price range) . . .


The big man even had time to doodle on the chalkboard after setting up the presents and eating his cookies . . .


Amy and Mikala had never seen something so cool as the train table (at least not anywhere besides Books-a-Million). They ran straight to it at 7:30 and we finally coaxed them away from it at 10:30 by explaining to them that Santa had also left them presents at Grandma and Grandpa's house . . .


Claire was plenty content just dreaming of sugarplums and fairies . . .


And the littlest elf stayed asleep through it all.

Christmas 2007

12.09.2007

Christmas Queens





Amy (middle) and Mikala (bottom) saw a dress up opportunity when we brought out the Christmas stuff. The tree skirt became a cape, and the stockings were actually used as such. We have been very busy this year, and our Christmas decorating has been neglected. This time of year is usually marked by Joseph performing treacherous acts of bravery involving icicle lights, a latter rated for 200 pounds, a greater than 200 pound man, and a 30 ft gable. We also usually have a real tree. This year, it's a 3-ft-walmart-charlie-brown-fake tree. Once again, we have a crawling toddler (isn't she cute?) who would not enjoy anything more than to eat the tree ornaments, so the charlie brown tree is on top of our entertainment armoire. When the semester's over in a week, we'll get the house lit up and stuff. One day we will be out of school...