Merry Christmas to All

Our kids were completely spoiled this year -- and not because they got too many presents from their grandparents, which they did. No, they were treated to a White Christmas thanks to last weekend's big snow. I grew up here, and I think the best we did was one Christmas with a light dusting of snow in 20 years.

For all of the family off celebrating elsewhere this year, here's a rather long video of our Christmas. We missed you all.

(Also, two new albums of pics linked here, with two samples below).

Chloe wearing one of Sophia's hairbands. You know, to keep the hair out of her face.

Sophia playing in the snow.

Going for a twirl in a new dress

Nonna & Opa visited for a week over Thanksgiving. As always, they came bearing gifts, this time including a lovely dress for Sophia. Here, Sophia dons the dress and show us a twirl.

Also, linked here are some more pics catching up from the fall.

A few teasers from the new picasa album:

Sophia making banana bread for her preschool class.

And Chloe's hair finally starting to come in.

Indian Summer

It's still summer, no? Catching up on some pics from August and September here. Keep coming back for more updates over the next week. A preview:

Chloe's first birthday.

Sophia likes to climb into Chloe's crib in the morning. And, I guess, start changing her.

Inspired

Inspired by Amit's visit a few weeks back -- in particular, inspired by the great pics he took (what's new?) -- we just bought ourselves a real camera. Still figuring out how to use it, but here are a couple pics from the first few minutes playing around with it.

It was great seeing Amit, Gillian and especially Sonali. She's so cute!

Chloe turned 15 months old yesterday.

Sophia is almost 3 and a half.

They are much better kids than their parents are bloggers.

Turning the corner

In the past few days, Chloe has turned the corner from walking two to four steps and falling down, to walking across the room, picking something up and carrying it back across the room. Pretty amazing leap.

Here she was on Thursday:

On Friday she turned one.

Here she is this morning (Sunday). Warning, this video is a bit on the long side.

Mid Summer

New pics posted here. These catch us up from Sophia's 3rd birthday through our trip to Maine at the end of July.

A few pics from Maine:

Still playing catch up

A few pics from early June linked here.

Some highlights:

A couple of months ago, Sophia started climbing into Chloe's crib in the mornings. Chloe seems to mostly tolerate this.

Sophia on her 3rd birthday. The guitar was one of her presents.

More catching up

Some new pics posted on Picasa (link on the right), from April and May.

A teaser or two...

Sophia Chloe (yikes, that mistake is probably a full year of therapy later in poor Chloe's life) in early April, around 7 months old:


Sophia in late May, not quite 3 yrs old:


Higher!!


Awwww:

Catching up

We have a lot of catching up to do. At right is a link to Picasa, where we've uploaded new pics from Jan - March, including our trip to Sicily for Silvia and Adam's wedding. Below are a couple of those pics, plus a quick video from this afternoon in our backyard.

Big news today, which we haven't captured yet on video or in pictures: Chloe stood up by herself! 10 1/2 months old. Exciting times.

Oh, and I upgraded the video in the Dancing post below this one...

Dancing

Computer is finally fixed, so we should be back to posting some videos here and pics on Picasa soon enough. Here are the girls dancing while I was cooking dinner tonight.