The last of Christmas: The Maine cousins

We ended the week after Christmas with a big all Maine (and Massachusetts and California!) cousin event. It was quite the night at Mummi and Pappa's!

look what you started!!! good job!

all mummi and pappa's grandbabies, with 2 extra cousins thrown in (and aunties steph and Bridget because our toddler boys were being a wee bit high maintenance...)

Daddy and his siblings (and gabe too)

Auntie Spring and Uncle Rich take it all in

2cd cousins Kelsey and Erin wtih 1st CA cuz Alyssa in between, or as we call her, "big alyssa" (for her age and height relative to my little ones)

dessert time!

homemade gift success: super sock the superhero sock puppet!

batman sock puppet, BRILLIANT

Phoebe and Molly help lily put on her princess sock puppet they made her, delightful!

if you have a family full of lovely girls, there is likely to be a dance number on tap!

the older girls and double dream hands...ha ha

Gillian especially enjoyed this part of the evening ;)

the big boys looking cool

Between Christmas-es, fun in Maine

Between Christmas celebrations we had snow fun, sick days and adventures w/ Maine friends, behold, December in Maine:

at mummi's we share a big bed, very peacefully as you can see :)

movie time on the guest bed at mummi's

Brucie reads to mummi one of his favorite books

being adorable w/ Pappa

helping pappa shovel

snow gear

run Lily run!

sweet revenge...

digging out the sled

down the hill at mummi and pappas'

meeting up with maine friends

another visit to Bug light

the Super Kays joined us for the lighthouse adventure

girl power ;)

Christmas in Maine part 1

We traveled up ahead of the snowstorm the Sunday after Christmas, then Monday morning it was presents w/ the grandparents:

Helping mummi pick presents

Eliot is content just to drool and be held and look festive :)

Ollie is on the job helping mummi open gifts

mama models her new ll bean sweater and new headband (both from daddy) while opening her gift

mummi made blocks to drool on...mmmm

a mummi-made bag to carry things in, he declared it "boo-t-ful' upon opening it. so sweet

mummi made giraffe new clothes, they were immediately tried out!

homemade apron mummi made-it matches a new dress for baby-doll!

it's a wii! fun for everyone!

Christmas in Mass, Christmas morning

Mommy and daddy elf carefully stuffed stockings and laid out presents after Christmas eve in NH. The children kindly slept until regular time, then it was Christmas delight!

the (mummi made) stockings were hung with care all December

stockings first! lego keychain

new trumpet new shirt, much fun!

mama was thrilled the snapfish photobooks were such a hit (each child got a personalized birth through fall 2010 album)

Robot bug!

Christmas morning carnage

Ollie turns 2

Ollie turned 2 on December 20th. We traveled to Maine to celebrate with family, as part of the effort to make sure his birthday didn't get lost in Christmas. Happy 2cd birthday little man!

Ollie loves trains model trains and Thomas trains, so his party had a little bit of a train theme, a very little bit....

I really loved the train set up under the tree at home. It was comforting to fall asleep on the big pillows listening to its clickety clack clickety clack

making the pizza for my birthday party. mmm pizza I lub it!

mummi measures to see how tall I've grown since last year. daddy and my aunts and uncles and cousins all have been measured on this door!

I wasn;t really sure why there was fire on my food, but cousin Molly (it was her birthday too)  showed me how to blow them out after the singing and I got RIGHT into it after that. woo hoo chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting!

a giant squishy Thomas, nice for cuddles

"I dump-a the legos on the floor! I dump-a the legos on the floor!" (there were lots of legos to add to the collection!)

more of Thomas' friends to go with the collection. Brother and sister got me this Molly train

Pappa and I admiring the tree