Christmas Day!

Santa and the reindeer ate their treats. And the reindeer's
hooves even left a little dirt behind. Didn't anyone ever teach
them to wipe their feet???




Connor was the first one up ...




... he went directly to his stocking ...




... Zach, on the other hand, had a different set of priorities




But once the important stuff was taken care of, he got down to
business




Zach likes music!




Ian also had to take care of some business before he could
concentrate on the presents (for those not familiar with
their house, that's the door to the bathroom)




Ian got a harmonica, and Zach was mesmerized
Magi (aka Big G) watches via webcam




Zach's trying to get the harmonica away from Ian.
Ian was not down with that.




Getting into the Christmas spirit




An elf on a mission




Papa, observing Zach the Christmas Elf playing his new drum




Amy's taking a video of Ian opening his new remote controlled car




Christmas Rainbow!




The boys playing with Ian and Connor's new remote controlled
Thomas the Train set.




Choo-choo!

Zach's Bike

so this is out of order, timewise, but we've gotten a lot of requests for a video of Zach on his bike. we are nothing if not crowd pleasers, so without further ado ... co-starring Mama and Nana:

We're back!

Not that we went anywhere, but still ... it's good to be back on the web, posting photos of your favorite 22 month old. Still got a lot of holiday pix to share. Here's a few from the Christmas Eve day. We opened a few presents and made sure to leave Santa and the reindeer some treats for the journey.

what would a day be like without choo-choos? ... it seems that we'll never know ;)



our 21st century Christmas. opening presents with Jo's mom, Dee, on the webcam







reading with mama and grammy before naptime







time to open some presents! even spreading it out over a few days, it was still overwhelming and amazing.


zach got very into ripping open presents. he definitely has flair.



yay books!


you think your exhausted now, kid? that was just ONE!



papa reading to connor



getting the cookies and milk for santa, and the carrots, celery and water for the reindeer

(Almost) Real Choo Choos!

The day before the day before Christmas was another day of fun with trains - but this time we got to ride them! The park also had a great playground.

Later that night Jo, Amy and the boys made Christmas cookies for Santa, then Papa read a bedtime story to Zach.

More Holidays in Phoenix . . .

These photos are from three days before Christmas. We started off with a Sesame Street video (the only way we could ever get the boys to sit still long enough in the same place at the same time for a photo), moved to the back yard for a spin on a new toy from Grammy and Papa (kathie and pat, Amy's parents), then Connor and Zach had an art session. After naps, playing and dinner, it was story time, the last step before "night-night!".