Avril should call us!

I'm sure thanks to my household, Avril Lavigne's Girlfriend was On Demand's Most Requested video, followed by Fergie's Big Girls Don't Cry. I personally believe Avril should call Addie herself to thank her for making this achievement come true!




Onkteb and Aunt Gail have officially moved up to Providence now. They plan on coming back once a month to visit. Here are the pictures from Onkteb saying goodbye the other night.











Ben has become a daredevil. His latest feat:




Note the self-confidence as he claps for himself each time he stands on something dangerous!


Finally, a message to Muddy and Guppy, who are busy enjoying the weather in southern California.

Stories of Christmas gone bye-bye

So some of the stories of Christmas, with our special visitors Aunt Amanda and Uncle Jeremy from New Hampshire, along with the usual suspects:





On Saturday we went to dinner at the Charcoal Pit with Amanda, Jeremy, Muddy, Guppy, Onkteb and Aunt Gail. Addie of course had to sit in between Amanda and Jeremy. While engaging in mind-blowing conversations, such as how to pull one's hair around to her face and make a mustache with it, Jeremy's tattoos came up. My brother's arms are basically big tattoos. He was showing Addie all of the different pictures, and talking to her about them. Both Muddy and I were interjecting things like, "Addie, you'll never get a tattoo, right?" and "Only Uncle Jeremy can have them." Well the conversation died down and we went on to talk about something else. At that point, Addie looks at Uncle Jeremy, sticks her index finger out, shakes it at him and says very sternly, "Not nice. We only draw on paper!" OMG, if only someone had been recording that, it was priceless.

Evidence #1

Evidence #2

And it wouldn't be Christmas with our family unless something totally inappropriate happened. See below. I don't think words can justify this cruel occurrence. So I'll say nothing. (Do know, however, that he had NO idea he was walking around like this. Poor kid! Where were his parents?)


Ok, so it's not from Christmas, but close enough. Below is a picture of Ben after demolishing my ice cream cake birthday cake. It looks as if he's trying the very popular camo look for 2008?

The playhouse serves multiple purposes. Most recently it was a bakery for Pastry Chef Addie.


Brian and I went to the movies on Saturday night. We saw The Great Debaters with Denzel Washington. You MUST see this movie. It should be mandatory in every high school in America too!

Lots o pictures!

On the train, with Aunt Amanda in the background

How many people can you cram into a Little Tikes Town Playhouse?

Showing off their matching Elmo slippers

This was after playing in the parachute that Muddy and Guppy gave the kids! Look at that static!

Merry Christmas to all!

Pictures of late

Quick updates

Ben is asleep on my right arm, so some quick one-handed updates:

• Addie did convince her class to sing "Happy Birthday" to her at her holiday part.


• When she saw the whole tree decorated yesterday, she said "Hey! I don't remember this one...or this one..."


• She saw the angel on top & said, "The angel doesn't have a face." It's a translucent shell-type thing. "We need to go buy her a face."


• Uncle Jeremy & Aunt Amanda are here now! When telling Addie last night that they were coming, she said, "I'm gonna say 'uncle jeremy!' and run to him." She did the arm motions like she was running.

Here's the tree:

Something about a tree lit pic makes my heart melt

Special Hello to Louise! Thanks for letting us borrow J & A this Christmas. A is having a blast w/ the kids!

Look at how amazing this is!

Not far from our house, this is what we found tonight. In one word: AMAZING! It's one guy's house!