December roundup

Aunt Dana texted Mom the other day to tell her that she hasn't let me or Parker on the blog in more than 5 weeks to post an update. So here we go...

I had a Christmas party at school and Mom surprised me by showing up during snack. After snack we sang songs, that amazingly, I know all the words to in the car, but when I had to sing them for school ... well, I forgot. It may have been that I was sitting next to Kaliegh, although I really like Isabella these days.

On Christmas Eve, Mom dressed Parker and I in our Christmas costumes. We went to Grandma and Grandpa's for a delicious dinner.

Aunt Amber made Parker laugh and laugh.

I did puzzles in the middle of the floor and patiently (and sometimes not so patiently) waited to open presents.

Handsome son and beautiful mom (aka Granny).

Like mother, like son. 

Christmas day we woke up in out matching PJs (me waaaaayyyy before Parker!) and went downstairs to find out that Santa had been at our house to visit. Maybe he came down the chimeny and jumped over all the construction stuff to bring our presents to the living room!

Parker got a BLUE packpack, as I call it. I told Mom I was going to get mine and we could trade, but she explained that mine has my name on it and Parker's has his name on it. I got over it, but I really like blue (and Batman).

Santa brought this cool horsie for Parker to ride. I like to ride it too!

For dinner of Christmas Day we went to Granny's. She made an absolutely delicious pasta and we played board games! Santa had brought Chutes and ladders for Parker and I, but he's too little to play so I played with Daddy.

All that Christmas-ing wore us out. Thank goodness we can fit on this chair together for a tired snuggle.



Vising the twins (and the rest of the Mansuettos too)

We went to New Jersy to meet the Baldwin twins, and Santa showed up on a fire truck to give us candy canes! He must have known I would need one after taking a 5 minute nap all day.

Dad was into holding the little girls. I told him later that we should have another baby so someone could sit next to me on the other side of the table.

I entertained Alison with my preschool stories and punctuated my regal tales with hand and foot gestures.

Papa kept Parker and I busy with lots of love and tickles!

and rock it out this Chrismas

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Thanks for Thanksgiving!

Here's some Thanksgiving pictures!
Liam and Luke came up from D.C. with Aunt Shannon and Uncle David and Sodabread in tow. We had tons of fun!

I gave sage advice to Lucas.

Dinner was delicious!

Parker wanted to be sure he made extra drool for Thanksgiving so the day before, he knocked out his right front tooth and split open his lower lip. Mommy was beside herself, but her friends and the family reminded her that it's only a practice tooth.

Uncle Jake was visiting with Auntie Dana. He and Daddy make good pilgrims.

Mommy helped me be an Indian. I mean Native American. I mean indigenous person. I mean Wampanoag

There's Auntie Dana!

We'll have to skip Thanksgiving for a minute

because I only have these pictures of us in our Christmas costumes right now. We wore costumes on Thanksgiving too. And when I am not wearing these costumes, I'm Batman. And Daddy is Robin. And Parker is just Parker (even though he was Robin on Halloween) and Mommy is Mommy Butterfly (even though she wore her butterfly mask for about one minute on Halloween).



Raking Leaves

Part of life in suburbia is yard work. I don't mind because I am too little to really help. Check out how Page helps!

Daddy blew a big pile of leaves together and Page and I played in them. All that playing made me tired, so I took a nap and Dad and Page made the pile even bigger!

 It was as tall as Page!

Moving on Out and In

We officially moved to our new home in early November. It's the excuse Mom is using now for being so lame with posting.

Here's our new rooms!

Parker's room is "Maine Lobster."

My room is "Marlboro Blue" or just blue. I love blue. Blue Blue Blue! My room is so big I can have my train table out.

Remember back in October...

when we went pumpkin picking and saw Auntie Dana at a restaurant? Here's a few more from there. We're playing catchup today...

I know it's December...

but somehow Mommy forgot to post pictures from October. Remember how she said Halloween had 200,000 parts? Well these pictures are from one of those parts. Liam and Lucas came to visit and we had a Halloween brunch. Aren't we cute?

After brunch and a nap we played in the backyard. Julian and Theo came over. Julian is the same age as Liam and I. We played and played and played. Parker took a nature walk around the yard. Theo hung out with his mama.

Halloween, Part 200,000

Mom thinks Halloween lasted just about the entire month of October. Here I am at my preschool party. We played games, sang songs, ate snack, read a story and trick or treated down the hall.

Parker stopped by for a little while with Doreen, but they left so I could have some Mommy time.

I am a proud singer.

And a good listener. (Mommy was wondering who this kid was...)