Merry Christmas--Again!!

Calvin's all ready for his first Christmas.

Emerald showing her silly "cheese" face. She looked like a doll in this dress, I just couldn't get her to pose standing up.

The only way we could get Calvin to sit still. Then Emerald wanted the spoon. It made for a cute pose.

Daddy & Calvin posing for the camera. This is a great pic, because it was unplanned and we have one just like it with Emers.

Daddy & Emers. She loves her Daddy time. These days it is ALL about daddy and most days "I don't like mommy". Man they start young.

Santa brought a kitchen for both kids!

Emers is patiently posing with her stocking.

Aunt Laura said she could play with Play-doh for hours. Emerald was challenging her with every animal she could think of.

Us posing after Christmas mass. We opted not to push Calvin for midnight mass. It was a little lonely not going with all our family, but did get to have mass with the Archbishop.

Merry Christmas, again! We celebrated Christmas this week with Skip's parents, Jeff & Heidi, and Laura & Shane. It was also nice visiting with our dog, Laney, again. We had a lot of fun "ripping presents" and telling Pop Pop ahead of time what he was getting. There was too much food, as usual, and lots of laughter. We really do need some more room to store all theses new toys. Calvin even got into this present thing, and was quite excited to see his new toys. Aunt Laura is GREAT at making Play-doh monsters, dinosaurs, etc. Emerald was also excited to go to Pop Pop's store with him. She had a blast serving tea to everyone at the house. Today Emers asked "where'd all the people go?". I think she is missing everyone.

We have 2 weeks until we close on the new house. There is also about 3" of snow in our yard right now that is awaiting little feet to come and play. Happy New Year!!