Christmas 2008

Our holiday celebration started the evening of the 22nd with our own little family Christmas party.

Jonas got some costumes and Miles got some new toys (mostly so that we could fairly refer to these new toys as "Miles' toys" in order to reinforce the concept of sharing for Jonas!)

After a short Christmas Eve visit to PaPa and JuJu's (we would be returning later in the week) we headed to Grandma and Grandpa M.'s so we could wake up there Christmas morning.

Miles really loved bows!

Not really a Christmas-y picture, but here's a great one of Miles at snack time.

In our whole week of family time and Christmas celebration, I was unsuccessful at getting a good picture of all the cousins together. Here are some tries. Notice the sweet girl cousins with almost the same pleasant expression in every shot...then notice Jonas's not-so-pleasant expression and my boys coming to blows!

I had the same luck getting a picture of Grandma and Grandpa and the grandkids.

Then, cousins Noelle and Joshua FINALLY returned from their Christmas vacation so we could all celebrate together with Papa and JuJu and special visitors Uncle James and Gaurav.

Noelle and Jonas could barely see over their piles of presents!!

I didn't try to take any group pictures at Papa and JuJu's because we got some formal family portraits taken...unfortunately my boys cooperated about as well then as they did in the photos above. We did end up getting at least one good one of every pose, though!

Stay tuned for updates coming soon about our January events: Saturday AM swimming lessons for Jonas, Ben and Robyn's trip to D.C. for the inauguration in one week (we got tickets!) and hopefully a video of Miles performing his new trick....HE WALKS. Just this morning he surprised us by taking 4 steps in a row all by himself. He repeated his performance several more times throughout the day, but never for the video camera!