More Christmas Cheer!

We had an amusing visit from Santa at the KO Christmas party this year. Below is the three part sequence of Alice's turn to sit on Santa's lap. She was really excited to see Santa as we hd been talking up this visit for almost a week. She was well prepped, ready to say 'nice to meet you, Santa,' knew just what she wanted to ask Santa for and had her thank you all ready to go. Well, that all went out the window as soon as it was her turn to sit on Santa's lap. Can you sense the terror? Needless to say this was not the year that she warmed up to the big guy. Maybe by age 3...



Dana was much more calm when it came time for her turn. Happy as a clam.
Alice enjoyed helping her Dad with the leaves outside. She liked raking the leaves and sitting in the middle of the piles!!

We gave Alice her big christmas present from us on Saturday - a wooden train set. Since we leave for VT this Saturday we wanted her to have some quality time to play with her new toy. She spent all Saturday, probably a total of 5 hours downstairs playing with her train set.
Here are a few pictures of Dana just hanging around. She is still very inconsistent with her mood. Some days she barely cries and others she is pretty fussy. Her sleeping habits are equally sporadic, sleeping great stretches at times (last night from 9pm-6am) and other nights getting up multiple times. She is getting more smiley and talkative by the day. My heart absolutely melts when she tries to talk. It is the cutest.
We had a wonderful visit from Nikki and Emily last Sunday. They were nice enough to make the trek out to our house from their UCONN residence to have dinner with us. I can't believe it's taken us until Nikki's senior year to get them out for a meal. We loved having them visit and we're hoping to see more of them over the winter break!