March 2010

Here's March! Jack loves to laugh.

And he loves his daddy too



Here's Adele with her new fairy wings, antenna, and wand.

February 2010

Here are Jack and Adele in February.

January 2010

Here are our pictures from January including our first outing in our new-to-us double stroller and Jack's first attempt at solid foods. Maybe it isn't obvious from these pictures, but Jack is a very big boy. It's no surprise that he took to "real" food like seasoned eater.

Adele is helping me push. You can see the video too!

Christmas Part II

Christmas Eve was at my brother and sister-in-law's house where they pulled out all the stops. The food was fantastic and the tree was amazing. Remember that tree?

You can see it in the background of this photo. These are all the cousins of Adele and Jack's generation....well except Jack. He was already asleep at that point!

After dinner, there was a very competitive game of musical chairs. My cousin, Candi (in the white shirt) took no prisoners as she established herself the Grand Champion of Musical Chairs, 2009.

Here she is bumping poor Alec out of a chair with no regard to the fact that he's her nephew!


She is a true champion. No wonder she's such a great volleyball coach!

Adele and her cousins in their beautiful party dresses.

Christmas Part I

We had two Christmas celebrations last year. My sister did not have her boys for Christmas weekend, so we decided to have a Christmas gathering a week early. It turned into a slumber party, which was fun for all.

Here's the line-up of cousins

We had a big gift opening frenzy that overwhelmed Adele. She really didn't know how to react. Her cousins were trying to get her interested in opening her presents, but she just wanted everyone else's gifts!

As mentioned, it turned into a slumber party, so here they are the next day enjoying their new gifts. The top photo just makes me laugh. Sophie is sitting on the bean bag chair COMPLETELY oblivious to the fact that Adele is playing with her new doll. As they say, ignorance is bliss!

The Photo Shoot

Even though Jack had never actually worn anything other than sleepers, we decided to get both him and Adele dressed up in their Christmas outfits for a Christmas card photo shoot. At the last second, I grabbed the lint roller to clean up their outfits. Who would have guessed that such an innocent act would completely change the course of the whole thing. Adele grabbed the lint roller and refused to give it up. We pleaded, demanded, begged (well maybe even groveled), joked, and did everything we could think of to get it short of taking it away. The clock was ticking on how long Jack would be alert and awake at only 2.5 months and we couldn't risk a giant tantrum for our pictures.

Just look at that look of defiance. She just seems to say, come on, I dare you to take it.




Here she is getting the bear ready for the photo shoot. We hadn't planned to have a bear in our photo shoot, but what the heck....he looked pretty Christmas-y.

In the end, she kept the lint roller the entire time and we got a couple of nice pictures for our Christmas card. We used these two. Notice how you can't see Adele's hand? Now you know why!



Some other photos including a couple that were in our newsletter.

Charlie Brown meets LL Bean

Our Christmas tree search was a bit different than the one described in my earlier post for my brother and his family. Ours had all the elements of an LL Bean catalog spread: the log home, the beautiful snowy forest, the cute kids in cute outerwear......but then there was the tree itself, which fell more into the "Charlie Brown's Christmas Tree" category. But, as Jack started getting fussy, and Adele sat down to start eating snow and then wanted to be carried, the tree looked pretty good, not to mention that it was one that needed to be thinned anyway. The best part is that Adele could not be more delighted with it, so it's all good.