In the excitement of all of the family visits, and in the retelling, and in the posting of all of those pictures, I teased you with the promise of showing you pictures that didn’t make it onto our Christmas cards and never actually posted them. I’m sorry, and I’ll make up for it now. Some [...]
Archive for December, 2008
More Christmas card pictures that didn’t make it
Posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Grandpa Bruce came to visit
Posted in Visitors on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It was touch-and-go for a while, because blizzards in Wyoming were canceling flights, but the weather cleared up just in time for my dad to come out for the weekend. Happily, his brother Duncan, Duncan’s wife Sheila, and their children were also in town visiting from New Mexico, and when you add in my dad’s [...]
Our Christmas Day
Posted in Video included on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At this age, they love the unwrapping just about as much as the presents. As soon as they discovered the fridge magnets played a song if they pushed a button, however, they started pushing that button to the exclusion of everything else. We had to remind them there were more presents to open.
I totally forgot [...]
Merry Christmas!
Posted in Uncategorized on December 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We drove around last night to look at the brilliant Christmas light displays on the huge Victorian houses on the island of Alameda. Claire fell asleep, as she usually does in the car. Ronin got excited and chirped a lot as we pointed out the lights to him. After that we went to the annual [...]
Christmas pictures that didn’t make it onto the card
Posted in Milestones on December 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Over the next few posts, I think I’ll share some of the Christmas pictures I took that didn’t make it onto the Christmas cards for whatever reason. This one was a very grumpy-looking picture. They weren’t actually grumpy. I’d taken a friend’s advice and dragged the recliner out in front of the computer so the [...]
Vocabulary
Posted in Milestones on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ronin has been going crazy with new words lately. It’s hard to keep track of them all. Ever since “alligator,” he’s been impressing us with all kinds of other words. He says “duck” and knows that it goes “quack quack” and that a dog says “woof woof.” He says “elephant,” although it comes out more [...]
All better, and helping
Posted in Uncategorized on December 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We’re in the middle of a cold and rainy week here. Now that we’re all feeling better, it’s difficult to run around and play outside. We did manage to go for a walk in Muir Woods last Saturday, and this picture is from a visit to Grandma Jan’s back yard, when the twins decided to [...]
Les Miserables (still sick)
Posted in Milestones on December 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s been a rough week. Claire was sick for four days before Ronin and I got hit hard. Claire spent the first two days crying miserably, only interrupted by coughing. She cried so much that she lost most of her voice by the second day. Justin said “We officially have a snot-nosed brat!” and accused [...]
Poor Claire
Posted in Uncategorized on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Claire is sick. She has a moist cough and a runny nose and frequent splattery sneezes. I’m sure, considering the generosity with which she is sharing her symptoms, the rest of us are soon to be sick as well. In the meantime, she is fairly inconsolable. She has been crying for hours as I write [...]
