Les fêtes de Decembre

Louisa's holiday recital.


Leo's holiday recital.





One serious Santa.



We grow our rest stop pretzels big in the PA


One night in Angola, IN



then Chicago!


and Sweden! (or Swedish Children's Museum of Chicago)




and some tough-guy place




and Deerfield.



'Twas the night before


and the morning of


and the day of


and the night of.


The haul


and what mommy's going to do to it.


Gotta get back to practice.





The world through Leo's lens.






And here we go...




into the new year!

Catching up

The kids watched Home Alone and Leo was excited about the scene where Kevin sleds down the stairs and asked if he really did that. Worried that Leo might get the idea to try, we looked at that scene frame by frame, and I showed him how the cuts worked to create the illusion (and we even got a pretty clear view of the creepy looking stunt double). So, of course, then we went and made our own versions!




Mommy, Daddy, and pumpkins.




A day in Princeton.








The rest of October.
















The human alphabet.






The giant leaf pile!










Ballet beauty.




Big boy!











Leo takes good pictures.