Our whole family arrived at the New Years Party clad in our hooded capes that my mom made us for Christmas.  After depositing some food we had brought along in the kitchen of my friend’s house, we headed right to the dance floor.  Mr. Trouble on Feet loved the lights…

We started the day out with peanut butter blueberry baked oatmeal (YaYa’s request) in the bathtub.  There was a bit of drama getting everyone in, and not all kidlets were overly excited about the breakfast menu, but when they settled in, everyone seemed to actually eat their portions, although Mr.…

We left the little people home with Uncle Don and in the evening the rest of us made a quick trip to an ice skating rink to do a bit of gliding on the ice.  Dot was able to teach YaYa some tricks, and The Banana started to get the…

Having lots of little people around means that there are bound to be messes, particularly when two of those little people are very, very busy toddling boys.  There isn’t a picture of all the things spilled at the table, or the dust pans filled with food from under the table…

We predicted that Alex would have fun at the aquarium, and it ended up being a great morning outing the day after Christmas.  All the kids bounced around the different exhibits.  We had a great time feeding the fish, which is not something we often do when we visit.  YaYa…

The weather has been ridiculously warm, and every little bit of snow we seem to get melts away.  However, the day before Christmas Eve, we received a light dusting of snow, just enough to make things look white and Christmas-like.  This was a huge blessing, because we actually thought we…

This is what he does when his sister is crying too loudly!

Baby Katherine came with other people from her family, but we’ll hear about that in another post.  Let me just say that I was incredibly smitten with my extremely cuddly new niece!  She barely cried.  She hardly ever spit up.  She loved being rocked and held and just snuggled in…

He just started wanting to take his blanket with him when I get him out of his crib after nap.  Of course, two blankets are always better than one.