It was awesome. Jack now has a playroom full of toys that sing and wiggle and light up, thanks to his wonderful grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins (and Santa!). Hope you all had the best Christmas yet!
Also hoping that you’re enjoying this last sliver of 2009.
see you next year,
elle

Merry Christmas everyone, from a 3-year-old-me
And, from my not-quite-3-year-old little family.

I am one lucky girl. I celebrated Christmas twice this year.
In Pensacola, Garth and I rode our bikes around our neighborhood on Christmas Eve looking at all of the Christmas lights and broadcasting Christmas music. I was wearing shorts. Garth made a fort in the living room and we cuddled inside and [...]

Garth and I put up our Christmas decorations the other day. We have four Christmas trees around the house, leaving only the bathroom, computer room (soon to be nursery), and tv-ish room without. All of this stuff makes me sort of miss last years decorations. But first, the background story.
Garth and I [...]

Ok- so I have a weakness for anything holiday. I like apple cider and Christmas music and cinnamin smelling pine cones. It’s no wonder then that I have had a love affair for several years with the Gap holiday sweater. They are to me the perfect expression of the beauty and warmth [...]

Abraham joined our family yesterday! He weighs in at just over 5 lbs…but at 17 inches, he’s already looking like Dad (freakin’ tall and skinny). He’s in the NIC unit still, but doing great, and so are Mom and Dad! Super yay! Me and the sibs are just about to cook [...]

so… there are three days until Christmas and as I get older I’ve learned some things about it. I used to carry around this little crowd-clicker thing to count the Christmas lights that I would see. It was the modern solution to a wonderful little tradition that my brother and I had growing [...]