The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Georgia graduated from a lamb this year...with a line of dialogue, a costume, and an invitation to the cast party, too! Here they are pre-show.

Henry got a costume, too. For comparison, here's a link to two years ago and also last year.

The kids all processed with the clergy at the beginning of the service.

Daddy was a sport in costume.

Katherine, the lovely on the left, is one of our favorite babysitters.

Sophie was...hot. She was wearing a velour dress and tights underneath this sheep number. She was also bleery-eyed and exhausted because her nap was on hiatus for the day. The show must go on!

Um, yeah, that's a real baby Jesus (actually Joseph's little brother, but that part was a secret), so yeah, it was awesome.

Sophie is the tiny one in the middle. Super poised.

Pageant Videos

Georgia and Sophie aren't in this first one, but it's worth watching for Henry's entrance...

You can see Daddy off to the left, singing with the kiddos.

Just to show you what a good shepherd daddy was.

There were a few blocking miscues, but you get the picture. This one also has a cameo of a very hot little lamb on mommy's lap.

The main event! Daddy played Townsperson #1 so that Townsperson #2 (Henry, in repose) and Townsperson #3 (Georgia) would know when to come in with their lines. I AM SO PROUD OF MY LITTLE TOWNSPERSON!

The big finale! You can see Sophie, she's the smallest lamb on the stage. Kind of bewildered, but not crying!

Birthday cake!

A day late, but she doesn't seem to be offended.

Sleeping Beauties

On the way home for the holidays! This is what you get when you snatch babies from their beds at 4am - well, you get napping babies several hours later. What you get initially are two wired babies, asking tons of questions and crying angrily at you. But that was this morning, right now we have two sleeping beauties and less than an hour to go.

Thanksgiving Report

Thanksgiving was truly awesome around here - KK and Grandma/Grandpa? Under one roof? Under our small, small roof? Thank goodness for the kindness of neighbors and friends nearby, who put KK up so she wouldn't have to sleep on a pile of diapers (clean ones, I promise). Daddy experimented with turducken this year.

Grandpa even helped feed Sophie a few times!

She enjoyed the parade.

So did G.

KK brought gifts because she's the best!

Daddy was pleased with the turducken results.

Sophie enjoyed showing off her new crawling skills.

You can make mashed potatoes in a crockpot! Sometimes you have to make mashed potatoes in a crockpot - because the upper part of your double oven breaks right before Thanksgiving. So you get creative. And you bake a pie in your neighbor's oven. That's just what you do.

Some progress photos...

Final result? A giant leg for G, so she was happy.

Sophie & G Meet Santa

It was an exciting day a few weeks ago when we all got to watch Sophie meet Santa for the very first time!

Georgia showed her little sis how it's done, by hopping right up to tell the Big Man what she wants for Christmas. Quite a contrast to last year.

Specifically, she is asking for a princess, a princess castle, and a baby. We have not clarified whether she's expecting a real, live baby, since that is what she got last year...

Super smiley!

Sophie was a little confused.

Henry was a good sport and ran up for a photo op.

Then we all ate breakfast - did I mention this was at 8am?

Soph was a big fan of the french toast sticks.

Flo and Rupert also came along!

"Why isn't he eating french toast sticks?"

They refused to hug on cue for the camera. It's about time, I suppose.

Later, G decided to write a formal letter to follow up on her Santa interview from earlier in the day.