Merry Christmas!

We hope everyone had a Merry Christmas. Catherine has taken to calling all of her cousins (boys and girls) sis-tah (sister). We're not sure she learned this term, or why she thinks it is appropriate for everyone. One guess is that if people ask if I'm hoping for a boy or a girl, I always respond that I would love for her to have a sister, but a boy would be wonderful too.

Since the term is cute and it seems to fit the Christmas spirit, Merry Christmas, sistahs! We hope the New Year brings all of you joy.

Christmas Day started with Jim's family over to our house. Can you tell Kim and Grace got new cameras?

And Christmas Day ended with a party at my Aunt and Uncle's house. Grandma and Grandpa W. made it in from Florida, so here is a shot of my Dad and Catherine behind the bar and Jim's parents sitting at it. Hummm, Christmas cheer.

Ann and Rich made it in for Christmas too, which is always a lot of fun, so here are the girls in front of my parent's tree on Christmas Eve. As you can tell we quickly change clothes after church and dinner!

Aunt Catherine

So Aunt Catherine babysat for us twice last week so we could go out and celebrate our birthdays. Aunt Catherine has watched Catherine many times and always remarks how tired she gets after watching her. At her second babysitting of the week, Aunt Catherine finally realized that she doesn't have to play with Catherine the whole time and that she'll play by herself for a while. No wonder she gets so excited to see Aunt Catherine!! So here's a cute picture of the two of them. -- Off to DC this weekend for Sarah's Confirmation. We're really looking forward to seeing everyone and the city. DC is beautiful this time of year.

Hat

This is the hat that Catherine likes to leave on all the time. When we go to stores we often take off her coat, but she insists on leaving the hat on.

For baby #2 we have nine weeks left to go. While Jim is home over the holidays I think we will try to start finding all the sleepers, bassinet, etc we'll need. Knock-on-wood, I haven't got sick in the last three days, so maybe my morning sickness is finally over!

Hope everyone had a good weekend.

YEA ANN!!!

Our blog is working again! After Jim and Dan spent hours on the phone going through my security options, Ann suggested that I unplug the whole thing and then plug it all back in. It worked! I still have some contacts at TSA's CIO office if you're interested. :-)

I'll update more this weekend, but here is the latest cute picture: