Watch out American Idol!

Nicole's latest thing is to pull out the step stool, stand up on it and give us a performance. We told her that she doesn't have to stand on the stool to sing to us, we would still listen, but she insists on using it as her stage. She gets her singing talent from her dad (the forgetting the words part, too).

Christmas Lights at Longwood

We were able to stop by the gardens the last night they had their Christmas lights up. It was beautiful, as always. Nicole's favorite part had to be the Thomas train. It was pretty cool.

Happy New Year!

OK, I'm a little late. But I guess now is as good a time as any to say that and to get some pictures posted from our past month or so. We were able to spend Christmas in Utah with our families, so we kept busy and had a lot of fun.

We celebrated 4 birthdays while we were there, spent time with great-grandparents, grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, and old friends.

And Nicole? Poor girl. We found out that she had an ear infection and pneumonia while we were there. But she handled it all really well, and did great on both flights. We were lucky enough to have an open seat for her on both flights (I don't know what we would have done otherwise!).

We had tons of fun and are so glad that Nicole got to see all of her family. She learned so many new words while we were there, and there was never a dull moment (except for the time when she fell asleep on Alex's lap while he was playing the xbox - she must have been really sick because she NEVER does that)!

Christmas (a little early)

We are going to be in Utah for Christmas, so we decided to have our own Christmas morning a little early. Saturday morning we woke up to find all sorts of presents under the tree. Nicole had so much fun opening her presents and playing with them. I'm so glad we did this, because for me, Christmas is all about waking up early, going down in your pjs, opening presents, and then having a big breakfast. We made Mickey Mouse waffles and sausage, and then spent the rest of the day playing with our new things.



After Nicole's nap, we went into Center City and saw the Wanamaker lights at Macy's, and headed over to the Comcast Center for their Christmas Spectacular 3D light show. We had dinner in the city, and then headed home. It was about the most perfect Christmas day you could ever have.

Photo Shoot

I took Alex and Nicole out this morning to get a picture for our Christmas card. The rain held for us and we were able to get a few shots.



If anyone wants me to take some pictures for them, I'm more than happy to. I'm still learning, and having subjects to shoot helps!

18 Months!

27 lbs 13.9 oz

32.75"

Favorite things:

Baby Doll

Balloons

Trains

Balls

Handy Manny

Martha, again!

A couple of weeks ago, I went with a big group of friends to New York, and we saw Martha, again! They invited us to come back out, and it was a blast. We got tons of giveaways, and all of us were on camera multiple times. The episode aired on Black Friday, which is why we got so many awesome giveaways. We got a J.Crew gift card, a Greek cookbook (it is the biggest cookbook I have ever seen), a Demy digital recipe reader, an eye-fi card (for wireless transfer of photo from camera to computer), and a wire-free charging station for electronic devices. We also went up to Times Square, the Rockefeller Center, and Chinatown.

The ferry ride

This is the waiting room before you go out on the set

We got front row seats, which is why we were on camera so much. They chose our group specifically for these seats. It was awesome!

Times Square