Christmas Day!

Santa Claus left this dollhouse all set up and ready for a little girl to play with! Zoe was, as you can see, intrigued by it. She kept ignoring everything else so she could go back to playing with it more. Santa clearly knows what our little girl wants! 

Tommy got very excited when opening his present from Uncle Martin. You can't see it in the picture, but it's a really nifty Mario Kart Wii - themed racetrack set that Uncle Martin will be helping Tommy set up.

Later, we went to my parents' house to celebrate Christmas with them and Sean & Nadia and their girls. Tommy took a few minutes to read some of his new book to Screech, my parents' cat. Screech was surprisingly excited about the story. Either that or he was trying to make Tommy notice him and give him a pet. Hard to tell.

And here Zoe is engaged in the traditional Christmas activity of all children everywhere - ignoring the toys so she can play with the wrapping.

All in all, a very nice Christmas. I hope everyone else had a great one too!

Christmas Eve!

My Christmas gift this year was a new flash, to replace the one that was destroyed by a leaky battery. I went out and bought it early so you could all see a few pics of the kids enjoying Christmas!

Here we have Zoe and Mommy being silly together. I think Zoe was pretending to try to escape at that point, but I'm not quite sure. Just so it's clear: That's just hair whipping around. She's not actually a freakishly deformed super-child or anything.

Next up: Joel, Tommy, and Zoe sitting quietly together on the couch. Tommy felt the need to show off his Optimus Prime toy. It was originally blocking his entire face, but Joel managed to get it pushed a little way out of the road.

And here's Zoe running around like a crazy girl! The best part is that she actually was doing this on command - I asked her to go running back and forth and she obliged me! Getting her to hold still for a picture is almost impossible so I decided to try deliberately having her running around instead. It seems to have worked!

Sometime later this week I'll post pictures from today. I managed to catch decent pictures of both of the kids this morning, and we're about to head over to visit my parents and I'm hoping I'll get a few more there. No promises though.