Orphaned Photos: Part Thirteen

I obviously haven’t done a comprehensive Orphaned Photos post in a while, since my Orphaned Photos Folder goes back to before Christmas.

I don’t know WHAT could have allowed me to get so far behind…hmm.

On our last small group night before Christmas, we had the kids, in annual tradition, put on an unrehearsed Christmas play.

The cast, however, gets bigger and more unwieldy every year:

 

And, although I loved Ali’s fireman hat, fairy wings, and mismatched socks with her angel costume,
 
My favorite part of the play was Luke, a Wise Man, sneakily pocketing one of Jesus’ gifts:

 

And that’s the TRUE Christmas story.

And for a bit more Christmas fun, Ali with her Gingerbread House creation:

 
And in the “snow” at the Galleria – she was quite a fan of snow in the mall – she even asked me last week when it was going to snow there again.

 

Ali and I combined her Dominoes and school one day – I wrote one of every number on post-its, and she had to add the two domino numbers together, and place it on the correct sticky note:

 

Although she found it fun, we only made it through about 10 domino addition problems before she was totally ready to move on.

Oh well.

This next pic is a total keeper…

Ali, woken up in the middle of the night, a bit drowsy but TOTALLY excited to go to Gramamma and Pop’s so that Mommy could go to the hospital and have Baby Noah:

Here was Noah’s last picture in the Hospital before we headed home… he’s already outgrown that outfit (sniff):

 

And his first car seat trip… in which he was MUCH happier than he is in the car seat now – totally unfair.  Babies are supposed to love car seats.

 

When we got him home, he was the last addition to our presents under the tree…

 

Some of my favorite shots from Week Two:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the night of Ali’s Birthday, we also had Chris’ family Christmas..

Leo and Ali had much fun..

 
As did Leo and his new remote-controlled-rolling cooler.

 

Chris had to get the wire-cutters out to get into our presents – who makes wire Christmas ribbons??  Or better yet, who BUYS them???

 

Noah LOVED his new Monkey…

 

And Chris LOVED Kitty’s choice in bows.(As did Ali – the whole collection of them are still floating around our house, played with on a daily basis.)

Ali got a fairy wand, with which she turned us all into Frogs.

 
(I tried to get her to turn us into Newts instead, but she said she didn’t know the spell for that.)

And…Noah now – so much bigger:

 
And with a VERY proud big sister.