So Much Fun w. Anna and Eric

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Waiting for the Train w. Anna and Eric

On a trip to D.C. the kids got to take the Metro. Oooooh!

Mo Dirty

Napping in the Car

Mo's Favorite Walking Target

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Hmmm...

I was there and I'm not even sure what we were looking for.  Mo is always into something.  Sometimes he convinces the rest of us to go along with him.  

The Many Faces of our Four-Year Old

Busted

You can see Ella knows there about to be in trouble but Moses hasn't figured it out yet.*No worries. That's just where the cookie sheets go. Not a warming drawer and definitely not a broiler. Still, the children shouldn't be playing in the oven.

One Day in the Big Apple

Kelly flew to NYC this week for one looong day (woke up in NC at 4:45am, back in my own bed by midnight). I had a great work day in the national office, met a famous person (the guy with glasses from Queer Eye), had fabuous wood-fired pizza with Anne, and met Jacob's ADORABLE new puppy, Colonel Putnam. Here is my new NYC buddy! (yes, mom, it was too cold for a fleece and no hat!)

The Happy Chef

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Teenage Years

In an adorable prelude to her teenage years, Ella spent about 1o minutes laying on the floor talking on the phone.  It was a boy...but it was her Poppie.  She just looked so 14!

From Words to Phrases and Steps to Walking

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Check out the heavy breathing with this walking.

Ella's Drop-off Party

Last weekend, Ella went to her first big-kid birthday party. Yes, folks, she got dropped off at Aidan's at 11:30 and did not get picked up until 12:55! She had a fine time- built a pony out of scrap art materials and ate a lot of cake . (Kelly did some unnecessary Target shopping- the perils of having time to kill on a Saturday morning!).

Here's Ella, Aidan, and the unicorn...

Zach, Anna and Eric at the Inauguration

Holding Down the Fort

Zach's been gone for almost a week, visiting the Obamas and the Perins and working in Baltimore. I admit that I was more than a little trepidatious at the thought of being the Only Grown-Up for 6 whole days... but Ella, Mo and I have had a great time! We've hit a sweet spot lately- Ella as sweet and helpful and goofy as ever, and Mo suddenly even more easygoing and playful. (Not to mention CUTE! I know that I'm his mama, but this boy is ADORABLE! Photo evidence to follow- my blog skills are limited.) We sledded up and down the street on our snow day, and built a nice tall snowman who is now melting creepily under his baseball hat. We watched the inauguration ALL DAY LONG (but didn't spot Zach on TV). We had dinner parties and coffee parties with our friends, dance parties with Dewey, and bath parties with lots of splashing and Mo's new slurp-up-lots-of-water-then-laugh-hysterically trick. We raced cars down the slide in the living room, put lots of clothes on lots of babies, and pushed Moses around in his new ride-on car. Thank you, Moses and Ella, for making it so very easy to be a very happy, very grateful mommy! (OK, Zach, you can come home now!)

Photo Shoot

Ella and Moses sure are lucky to have such a fabulous aunt (who happens to be an incredible photographer). Thanks for the photo shoot, Sharon!  

Happy Birthday, Zach!

Hooray, hooray, hooray, hooray, today today is your birthday! Happy birthday to my favorite person in the whole world (don't worry, this is Kelly typing, not Zach). 

FUNcle Brendan

He wears funny glasses. He makes tasty paella. He plays on all of the playground equipment. (He also took Ella to "Chunky Cheese" for her birthday, but we sadly have no photos of that excursion.) Thanks, Uncle B, for a great visit! 

Dear Auntie Dana,

Thanks for letting us stay in your beautiful apartment in Chicago! You have so many pretty, pretty things that I can touch and try to eat.  It was fun to crawl in and say HI at 6:00 every morning! Sorry about the crying at night and the Cheerios ground in to your beautiful shaggy carpet.  Love, Mo  

Great Times with Great Grandmas

Catching up with some Thanksgiving photos! A major highlight of our Thanksgiving midwest trip was some quality time with Great Grandma (on the carousel with Ella, above), and Great Grammie (with Mo). Love you!