Merry Christmas!

This is a photo of the photo that Jack and Sadie took with Santa last weekend. Sadly, we don't have a digital version. The kids were pretty pooped by the time they got onto Santa's lap. There was a lot of waiting around to get to this moment. They were pretty excited when Santa first entered the room. He was a very vivacious santa, and sang Christmas carols with all the kids. Sadie and Jack both battled the crowd to get close to him.

We're off to the east coast and snow tomorrow. Delaware got a foot and half of snow today! Hopefully the snow will stop in time for a smooth flight for our broad tomorrow.

This blog will go dark until we get back, but I do wish all our readers a very merry Christmas and promise a New Year filled with lots of new Jack and Sadie photos!

Holdovers

Here are a couple of close-ups of the kids from a few weeks back. We did not take too many photos this weekend. We're swamped with trying to prepare for Christmas. In the absence of new photos hopefully these two will keep the sadie-and-jack-ophiles of the world satiated.

Master of Disaster

Last week was one crazy week with Jack. On Wednesday night he catapulted himself out of his crib and fell 4 feet to the ground. Amazingly, the crib-fall did not even result in a bruise. Although it did produce quite a bit of anxiety for J. and I worrying about how to keep Jack safe at night. And then, on Thursday, Jack went to battle with a child's folding chair at daycare and got his thumb caught in the chair's hinge. He cut his left thumb badly and we had to rush him to the ER. He got 8 stitches in his thumb. To keep him from messing with the stitches he'll be wearing the large bandage shown in the photo above for a while. Once the ER staff tied Jack down and numbed his hand he took the stitches well. J. stayed with him while they sutured his thumb. J. entertained him with a cell phone and the doctor said that is was the only time a child laughed while getting stitches. Needless to say, Jack earned his new nickname "Master of Disaster" this week. We can only hope that the nickname becomes irrelevant soon.