Holidays part 1

My parents (Gramama and Taita) came up on Christmas day to spend the weekend with us. We started out with snow in the morning (but gone by the time my parents got here, so they had smooth driving). Just enough to get a cute picture.

And then, when my parents got here we had Christmas!

X was the elf. Actually, she was the santa in the mask Tia Kira made for her.

The rest of the day included playing with new toys and puppies and lots of eating.

Xaris got spoiled by family. This new drum was from Auntie Lisha and Unker Paul.

Xaris and Frango are buddies. Xaris returned the kisses.

Another favorite new toy from Gramama and Taita. She's really wanting to be able to do this on her own!

preview

I'm playing catch up this week...on sleep, work, housecleaning...pretty much everything. So I don't have much time to write and post all our holiday adventures yet, but here's a preview.

More to follow.

Susanna and Xaris met for the first time. I think there's every indication they will be friends always and forever.

just to see if I can....Post from my phone while in México with only one bar of signal.

I stand corrected

No slump...just me pouting I guess!

Thank you all for your comments. I should have read only one at a time and savored them slowly, but no, I gobbled them all up at once and loved it!

I do understand the one-handed typing difficulties, and the speed-reading 2 minute vacation breaks...I probably should not be so high maintenance.

Xaris...checking *her* blog...

Poll: Are you a mac or a pc? Looks like our baby is already predetermined...she LOVES playing with Ric's computer (his keyboard clicks louder than mine).

Slump

I've determined I must be in a blogging slump.

I usually check my blog daily (typically in the middle of the night, when I'm feeding X).

The first thing I do is scroll down to see if there are any comments. I think comments must be my favorite part about blogging. While I like journalling, I must like the response even better, because I tend to judge my blog by the feedback it gets...am I writing and posting things that are interesting to others? Am I writing and posting things that others enjoy?

So, I must be in a slump, because it's been several posts with zero response. I tried to combat my steadily decreasing blogging average by posting one of Xaris' Christmas pictures...and when that didn't work, I brought out the big guns--Santa picture. And now I'm at a loss: how do I top that?

Not a clue. But you can be sure when I figure out what's causing my slump, I will be sure to remedy it. And then I will surprise and delight any of the faithful remnant who still read this blog with episodes of such fantastic bloginess that warrant abounding comments.

I will try my hardest--stick with me please!

Santa picture

We got to meet Santa last Sunday while Gramama and Taita (my parents) were in town. She was probably smiling more for my silly monkey dance than for Santa, but at least we got a great picture!

following the lead...

My friend Judy just posted the Christmas card rejects on her blog.

We are trying to get a Christmas picture too...and I love this expression, but I think this photo goes into the not-on-the-Christmas-card pile.

Not so bad

Bathtime isn't so bad when you have ducks to eat.