Have a Very Merry Christmas!

A whole lot of this going on

All day long, every day. And Peter usually wins, which sends Charlie into a depression, so he gives Peter more cards and keeps playing until he wins. It's the game that never ends.

Dear Santa,

You know it's time to have a baby when you start growing out of most of your maternity clothes. With three and a half weeks until my due date we're ready. Well as ready as we can be. I'm a little worried about giving up so much of my freedom. Charlie and Peter are both potty trained. They can get in and out of the car by themselves. They are both going to school. They get up in the morning and entertain themselves without needing me. They can even find their own snacks and feed themselves. I'm not sure I'm ready for diapers and feeding schedules and baby car seats and middle of the night awakenings. But I am ready to meet this little guy and figure out what his name is. (We're still totally stuck, although we did really like some of your ideas.) I'm ready to get him off my bladder and into my arms. I'm ready for my two favorite little boys to meet this new one. They are so excited and they like to whisper secrets to him and sing him lullabies. Charlie is completely perplexed about how the doctor is going to get the baby out of there and I'm definitely not ready to have that conversation yet. If any of you have good ideas of how to explain that one, please tell me.

In the meantime, we're making sure that the baby doesn't overshadow our Christmas festivities. Christmas cards are ready to be sent after I buy some stamps. The tree is done. Presents are ordered or bought. I'm hoping to get to those homemade gifts I have planned. And we're having fun with our family activity advent calendar. Our activity for today . . . writing up a questionnaire and doing video interviews so we can always remember what our favorite things were in 2011.

Holiday Picture of the Day

Happy December!

I love it when they laugh this hard.