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Christmas #3

On Thursday we headed to my parents' for the start of Christmas #3. We ended at Tessa and Chad's and came back late last night. Thank you, everyone, for all the awesome gifts. It was great to spend time with everyone.

Vacation is officially over tomorrow. Back to work and school. Boo!


Playing a rousing game of Pass the Pigs, or as I like to call it, Piggly Wiggly. Dana gave up on the game after Tessa admitted to cheating.


Grandma D getting some snuggles in with Clara.








After many years of doing daycare, Auntie Shelly still has the touch. 




Working on Sophie


This morning Brynn got right to work on some of the gifts she received. She got this tea set that you could paint. She went with a Disney princess theme. It was very cool.




Working on some suncatchers

We set up the jumperoo for Clara today. What a hoot. We were all laughing at her bouncing around in that thing. She seemed to like it.








She has really been chewing on everything lately. Santa brought her those teething rings not a day too soon. I remember when Brynn was a baby that I kept thinking, "oh! She's teething now," and then she didn't get any teeth until she was 15 months old. But it really does seem like Clara is teething! Ha. We shall see.

We tried cereal again tonight and it possibly went a little better, but she still didn't seem to like it very much. What she did like this past weekend, though, was to snarf tiny bits of mashed banana off my fingers. 



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