christmas wishes

we are growing closer to christmas each day, and we have been busy!

jack has enjoyed his advent calendar this year, but we were unable to find a countdown to christmas candle. 

my mom bought him the calendar this year (this one is by eric carle) and he loves it.

claire has learned to sit, but is nowhere near interested in rolling or crawling.

someone (jack, perhaps?) clued her in on christmas, and as you can see below, she is psyched.



from us to you, a very merry christmas and a wonderful new year.



zoo lights

one evening lastweek, it was warm.  as in, 70 degrees!  we made a last-minute decision to head to the zoo to see the zoo lights!  it was perfect, except that jack fell asleep on the way there. translation = hard to get to bed. oh,well....

we rode the train and peeked at some critters who were fast asleep.

it was a fantastic night.  sometimes, spur-of-the-moment ideas end up being the best ones of all.