Dreamseekers and Company

I count three “babies” in this picture – how many do you count?

1. Rachel nursed Maggie today while slaughtering goblins in Oblivion.

2. Laptop power cords are lame.

3. Albertsons puts 3 dollar off stickers on 4.50 meat after 7pm. This makes Rachel happy.

4. Star Trek was an awesome movie.

5. Now we want to watch all the old Star Treks.

Pre-Christmas and Christmas photos galore! There were 109 photos on the camera since I downloaded them last… less than a week ago! We celebrated Christmas at home starting at 4AM. That would be Maggie’s fault. Anna officially started Christmas by climbing up on our bed to wake Papa up at 5:15. Stocking first. Then breakfast. Then gifts under the tree. 7am, start playing with toys! Shower, dress, load up the car, leave for Grammy and Pappy’s at 9am. Play, visit, nap, eat, open gifts. Visit, visit, visit! Go to Grandma and Grandpa’s and hit the sack.

Before Brian did yardwork while she napped in the carrier – she’s so cute and stiff in this thing!

After he came back in – she was covered in sawdust!

How I get email and game-playing time in:

Sooooooooooooooooo cute:

Anna wearing a purse on her head. She is such a goose!

5:15AM

Mommy and Maggie’s post. Maggie fell asleep here for the rest of the gift opening:

Putting the fridge letters up and rearranging Christmas photos:

Maybe I can get a better picture for you Hollye…

Beautiful girly girl loves her jewelery (I loved my special necklace from Brian too, btw!!!!):

Opening gift from Grandma Hooge:

So cool magnet “paper” dolls and Anna’s camera smile:

I need a better picture of this dress for you too Hollye! It is adorable!

Good thing she got her books late in the game… she spent awhile looking through them before moving on. 🙂

Mr. Potato Head mustaches:

Pappy makes Maggie look tiny when he holds her in his big grandpa arms:

Cute sleepin’ babe (one of the only naps she took out of arms the whole weekend)

It was awesome! We heard the best laughs yet when Great-Grandpa Davis talked with her!

Then she got the hiccups… but Grandpa and Gran loved her back to happy:

On to the Chapman house! We cooked, cooked, cooked, ate, ate, ate, watched fun movies, played games, visited, napped and had a great time!!!

Anna is now a doctor! Here she is checking out the mirror’s health…

Children everywhere!

I’ll finish off the blog with a picture of Maggie smiling at her Grandma, wearing the adorable bonnet that Great-Grandma Daniel made for her. Thank you Grandma!

Videos!

Licking her hands instead of laughing:

Merry Christmas everybody! (“What’s in the stocking Anna?” “Just presents.” And that’s a shelled peanut she pulls out at the end. Peanuts are fun to open.)

Roller Derby!

Tail end of the laughing… wish I got more!!!!!!!

A few giggles for Grandma!

Bath

Coloring

You don’t want to miss the bottom video…

Anna was very happy to make chocolate-covered pretzels with Papa (these white chocolate ones are AMAZING! Why did I think I didn’t like these??? It’s taking all my self control to not keep eating them and eating them…):

Here is her fake camera smile… wearing ALL 3T clothes. She had a growth spurt! I should measure her to see how tall she is.:

Papa on the computer while holding Maggie. Maggie was chewing on her fingers mostly and hanging out:

Posing, but not her fake smile for once… took some dumb jokes by Mama to get this mischievious smile. 😀

Watch a wiggly, talking baby. (Who was talking more before I started taping)

Watch right after her first giggles….. or not. There are no giggles now that the camera is out… just Papa tickling her belly, biting her toes and being generally foolish, as we parents do around our children.

THIS ONE TAKES THE CAKE. It was not prompted. I just grabbed the camera and encouraged her to keep it up. Is that a fake vibrato?