Open Present, Open Present

Michelle has finally learned the concept of opening gifts even if it took several days. As I was washing dishes this morning I heard from the living room "open present" and then the rustling/tearing of wrapping paper. She quickly tore through the remaining gifts under the tree, good thing they were hers and her brothers.





And I of course could just eat Charlie up these days....

Merry Christmas to All !!!!

Santa was really good to us this year! Michelle wasn't quite sure what to make of it all so we let her slowly warm up to the idea of presents. She quickly became attached to her set of figurines from the Hundred Acre Woods and then put Darby and Eeyore to work in the kitchen.



Charlie thought he'd work in the kitchen a bit too, before riding his Zebra from Mimi and Grampy:





As suspected Michelle turned to the books under the tree and thought reading would be just as exciting as her new toys.

"It's Broken"

Michelle has been amusing us so much lately with her thoughts and subsequent speech. The other day she got her finger stuck in the refrigerator door and I was forced to pull it out causing a big old scrap and some swelling. Well, the following night we were are dinner with the Gangells and Mike told the story of how I "broke" Michelle's finger. She immediately looked down at her finger and started crying as if the story had made it start to hurt again. A short while later as the conversation had moved on and the boys were up at the salad bar, she looked down again at her finger, her lip began to quiver and then she burst out crying "it's broken." It was one of the funniest moments of her life so far!!!

Then last night while being watched by her Mimi, Grampy and awesome Godfather Tommy, she woke up due to Charlie's crying. When it was time to put her back to bed she told everyone "no, I'm fine." She is a fool, ha ha.

First Snow of 2007

We've had quite the busy day today. After some shopping the snow started to come down quite heavily. As I type Mike is out blowing the snow off the driveway. Michelle was apprehensive of the snow but she did manage to walk out in it for a few moments.



Although Charlie did not enjoy the snow, he'd like to share his newest trick, clapping.

Charlie is pulling up on things!

We are officially entering the "into everything" stage. Charlie has learned to pull up on the coffee table, get up the bottom 2-3 stairs, and particularly loves examining the Christmas tree and lights. We'd love to share some of his latest photos but I'm having trouble accessing them on the new memory stick I bought, :-).

I've switched back over so here are some photos of Michelle and Charlie enjoying Keephers new dog bed, who knew?








And just because I think he is so cute!!

Tis the Season

We've had a very busy couple of weeks around here. Most of them centering on trying to get Charlie to sleep at night. Other than that we are having a blast watching the kids interact with each other. Who knew it was actually possible to get stuff done during the day too. We've had many sitting sessions for our Christmas cards and still did not get anything we loved but we had fun trying. There are many pictures we'd like to share but we'll spare you and just share the pictures from today's Christmas party. Michelle made a mess of herself within the first 5 minutes with a lollipop and then proceeded to get cookies and pizza sauce all over herself as well. Charlie didn't seem to mind Santa one bit although he did give him a sideways glance at first.


He did quickly warm up to him though.


Michelle however wanted to keep her distance, she wanted nothing to do with sitting on his lap but was happy to wave at Santa or dance with Nani's lifesize Santa who although intimidating in the living room of Nani and Bop-Bop's house is not so scary in a conference room setting.