Our Christmas celebrating actually started with dinner and presents with Nana and Papa on the 23rd.  The kids were excited to finally get started on the present opening! Ane was given a locket that belonged to her late great-grandmother – a real treasure. And Thumper finally decided that he likes opening presents! (It took him […]

Ane’s party was quite the bash, even if her mother was completely disorganized and barely got the food out on the table.  But the food was quite handily wiped out (having 10 kids at the party will tend to do that), and we got to the important part – opening presents. The pile looks smaller […]

It was the first Christmas party of the season, and it was white elephant bingo night at Uncle Buddy’s house.  Certain kids (*coughcough*RERUN*coughcough*) are still working on not winning every single round. But when present opening time happened, people were pretty happy!  Especially Tad, who got another Batman book that he’s been wanting.  And Little […]

Moving forward in time… to 2010, when Rerun had his first Christmas at nine months old! He celebrated his first Christmas by standing alone for the first time. He would take his first steps on New Year’s Day, just one week later! (Yes, he wore the same outfit for both holidays.  It was adorable and […]