Christmas Dinner

The first appearance of the "kids' table" at our Christmas dinner.

Mmmmm.  What's for dinner?  Roast pork, brussels sprouts, roasted butternut squash, scalloped potatoes, bread and cranberries.   YUM!

Christmas morning

Waiting not so patiently at the top of the stairs for the green light from dad.

Finally . . .  What did Santa bring?!?!?

Julia's highly coveted "lip stuff."  Now she won't have to steal mommy's anymore!

Jacob trying to figure out how to work his new computer.

Our lovely tree.

Christmas Eve

This was one of the rare years that literally only comes once every five years (maybe less) when my mom actually had Christmas eve OFF!  We decide to do a little fun crafty thing and have lunch.  My mom brought a foam snowflake ornament kit with glitter glue.  The kids all had a good time with it.

Dinner was the traditional crab at grandma and grandpa Coolidge's house.  Always a nice dinner.

The kids got their teeth brushed and jambes on before heading for home.  We have found that we can stay a little longer when we do this step here.  Tonight was extra special, because Uncle Nathan was on TV!  He is a percussionist with the West Point Army band in NY.  The Christmas at West Point special happened to be on tonight.

Julia is trying to put her shoes on over her floppy feet--silly girl!

Reindeer Jacob and Friends

Jacob's preschool class has a Christmas program every year.  This year, they donned reindeer antlers and the girls all had red noses!  They were so cute.  Jacob has been singing "Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer" and "Go Tell it on the Mountain" constantly.  Of course, they are not complete without the hand motions to go with them.

Jacob's "girlfriend" is the tall blonde girl in the green dress and red sparkly shoes.  Her name is Kate and they have their wedding all planned out!

Surgery for Julia

Well, Julia is scheduled to have surgery on Wed., Dec. 28, at 3:30 at St. Luke's Boise.  They will be extracting both front teeth.  The good news is that our insurance covers the procedure.  The bad news is, it's SURGERY!!! for a two year old!  I know we'll survive, but I'm stressed!

Sweet Baby Girl

Julia fell on the sidewalk yesterday as we were taking a walk.  Her lip was bleeding and later was very swollen.  Little did I know she had cracked her front tooth and chipped the neighbor tooth.  The cracked tooth is not salvageable and has to be extracted.  Unfortunately, the oral surgeon will not do it with her awake and putting her under in his office is beyond his comfort zone.  He will have her scheduled at the hospital sometime on Wednesday of next week for real surgery. . .

Reindeer James