These Things will not bite you. They want to have fun.

Actually, they might bite you...

Henry and Gus make their first official appearance on the blog today with pictures of them three months ago and today.

Hopefully their appearances will become more frequent. They have nasty colic, making it difficult to take pictures of them. The doctor assures me that colic will magically disappear sometime in the next month. Until then, I am thinking about taking one picture of each of them in the middle of their nastiest episode - it may come in handy down the road when I need a visual aid to explain why Mommy has that nervous twitch.

Undecided

Lucy hasn't decided exactly how she feels about the arrival of her baby brothers. This morning she said, "I love babies." When I mentioned her brothers, she thought for a minute and then said, "I meant OTHER babies." Hmmmmm.....

GADZOOKS!

After they had breakfast with Santa, Andy and Lucy went to the Bird Sanctuary next to the church to hunt for Gadzooks. Gadzooks is the abominable snowman in the Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer cartoon. In the cartoon, Yukon Cornelius (who is looking for the abominable snowman) frequently says, "Gadzooks!" And so it is now the snowman's name.

They didn't find him, or the trolls that live under any of these bridges. Better luck next time.

SANTA!

The list has evolved slightly, but currently includes the following: princess dolls ("all of them"), a fish tank, and a helmet. Just a helmet. Nothing fun to go with it, no scooter, no bike. Just a helmet.

Bethlehem

Our church does a re-creation of what life was like when Jesus was born in Bethlehem - including animals, shops, food and Baby Jesus himself. Baby Jesus was crying when Lucy and Andy were there, and Lucy is still very concerned about him.

"Wait, you mean I can eat these cookies?" And then she went back again, and again, and again...

Making tents.

More snacks.

Know your audience

If you ever happen to be hired to dress as Spiderman for a 4 year-old's birthday party, consider this piece of friendly advice: do not lurk silently in the background, crawling around on all fours like a burglar, while friendly Batman waves and smiles at the guests. It freaks kids out.

Halloween Revisited

These were two of our favorite Halloween pictures:

Waiting.....

I'm not so sure that any of these kids were willing participants in this picture.

Princesses on Ice

Daddy and I went to see the princess ice skating show. I loved it all, but was REALLY excited to see the dwarfs.

The finished product

Jack-O-Lanterns!

I helped Daddy pick out two of the pumpkins we could find. Here I am serving as creative director on the design of our jack-o-lanterns.

I did NOT like Daddy's faces. They were too scary - so I offered him some constructive criticism on how he might make them more happy.

I wouldn't help Mommy scoop out the insides. I told her that I was scared of the orange part.