Dana and Alice: January 2013

The holidays were good to us this year. We kicked things off with a holiday party at KO where Santa came to visit! Alice was a little shy - she needed to be walked up to see the big guy - but was happy to sit on his lap and ask for a "princess and carriage." Dana was less tolerant of the man in red - as you can tell from the sequence below. She was not pleased to be on his lap and still didn't take her eyes off of him when he got up and posed behind us for the picture. She's a clever one...

Christmas in Maine. We had an early Christmas celebration in Maine which added a nice bit of festiveness to all the rain we had while we were there! Grandma Sue, Grandpa Chris and Nini all obliged our travel schedule and did some present opening about a week before the actual day. The biggest hit of the day was Dana and her doll. She loves that thing.

Dana loved cuddling with Terra during our visit. Alice was actually jealous of their 'special relationship'! It was pretty cute. Too bad we can't get a dog:(

We capped off our time in Maine by going out to dinner with Nick and Katie which meant Grandpa and Grandma had their hands full. Luckily Grandpa, Alice and Dana all have the same taste in movies!

And on to Christmas in VT! There are very few photos from our VT portion of the trip due to the increased number of kiddos to keep track of!! (or really keeping Dana from assaulting cousin Janet!) We had a great time and enjoyed catching up with everyone. Here are a few pics from Christmas morning. Unfortunately I don't have any pics of Gumma, as she was busy keeping all of us well fed and playing house elf!