Decorating cookies with Grandma

We stopped in WNY for a day before heading out to Long Island, Grandma and the kids were able to squeeze in a cookie decorating session. Dylan, clearly outnumbered by females, was there more for the food than the actual activity.

School Christmas Parties

Maddie and Dylan both had parties at school before the break.  Little D's class sang a few songs for everyone before the festivities began --  Madison's get-together was strictly a social gathering, no performances.

Breakfast with Santa

The kids came prepared with their lists, let's see if Santa thinks these two were good this year.

Missing: Tooth

Maddie lost her first tooth today, the one right next to it is pretty loose too.

Here's the pic of Maddie's first tooth when it came in, dated back on January 27th, 2008 (click First Tooth Link for the blog post)

Hard to say if the first tooth out was actually the first tooth in as well -- take a look at the pictures, you be the judge.  It's a close call, I think it is...

Christmas time

If it were at all clear from the glare in the window in the background, you would have seen snow on the ground -- making this the perfect traditional picture of kids hanging up ornaments.

I did however, capture the "moment" for 2012 though -- that being my children decorating the tree as soon as they got out of bed.  We were supposed to do this the night before, but I was too busy at the airport watching a wheel-less car get put on a flatbed truck -- 'tis the season!

A small surprise

When we arrived back from Arizona and pulled up to our car at the airport, something was missing.  What can you do, it was our lucky day I guess... luckily we got in around 1PM and it wasn't late at night. We ended up renting a car and I went back later that night to get the thing towed out of there

More pics from Flagstaff

Dylan in his usual pose as the Hulk

The kids have way more energy than us 30 somethings

Throwing rocks in the water