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Birthdays first


now for Christmas

Ronan doesn't seem too happy about Timothy's present

I made the blanket for Emma. She knew all about it but I wrapped it up anyway. It isn't the fanciest blanket in the world, but it was made with love and it is warm ~ the two most important 'ingredients' to making a blanket


this doll is a replica of a character in a movie that we all (me and the kids) happen to love in this house. I found the pattern a couple of months ago and all the little kids knew I was making her for Erica but they somehow managed to keep it a surprise.
Connor seems far more excited about Ronan's present than any of his own.
Gingerbread houses decorated at Amy's house. (we didn't wait until Christmas to eat them)
Harry Potter PJs and Batman cowl. an interesting disguise.
last year Connor got this toy... it is a sonic screwdriver ~ a toy replication of a prop in well loved TV series here. I not only got him one, but a spare because I knew that it would get lost or broken. then I decided that I wanted one for myself. I know, silly and childish of me...
he broke his and the spare and this year he got to have mine since I never opened it. this is the last sonic screwdriver that he will have. I hope he takes better care this time around.

12

I missed posting on the day. Timothy's birthday was Saturday. I am ashamed that I didn't post anything about it then. I should be more so because it was his golden birthday - 12 on the 12th day of the 12th month.

all the pictures are still on my camera and I will have to take some time in the next day or two to move them over to my computer and put them up on the blog. I will. I promise.

but in the mean time, Happy belated Birthday, Timothy.

Fifteen

Fifteen. 15.

what in the world happened? where did the time go?

Erica is 15 years old today.

Happy Birthday, Erica. I will have more to say and pictures to show later.

but for now I wanted to be sure to mention that it's her special day

yearly pictures

It's about time I updated the kids' yearly pictures. I took them way back in October and that's the extent of what I got done with them.

I really wish I had taken Erica and Timothy out again. I have such a hard time getting a really good picture of Timothy. For some reason he is terribly camera shy. And the reason I needed better pictures of Erica is because her hair was still wet when we took pictures for this year. She isn’t looking her very best.

But I am pleased with a few of the pictures taken. I guess that I will just have to be content with those few and maybe make them pose in front of the Christmas tree when I get that put set up.

I’ll start with Erica and her wet hair. In just under two weeks, she is going to be 15. I can hardly believe it. Wasn’t she just a baby yesterday? And if she’s going to be 15 that means that I’m older too. I don’t feel older. I feel like I should still be a kid myself.

Timothy, he’s grown taller than me over night! You might think I’m exaggerating that but I don’t think I am. He really was shorter than me just a couple of weeks ago and the other day I realized that he is taller than I am now.

a rare picture of Timothy smiling.

Emma has changed so much in the last year. I think that she has changed the most. Last year’s picture she looks so small and this year she looks like she’s 10. She is so anxious to be big. I’m not ready for her to grow up. She is only 7 years old right now, but I’ll blink and she’ll be turning 15 before I know what happened.

Connor. What more is there to say than that. Just... Connor. What a scalawag ~ I think that's a fairly accurate description ~ but so lovable. I did manage to get a shot here of a well behaved, non-mischievous Connor. He’s not a bad boy, he just loves silliness and often doesn’t know when he should stop.

Baby Ronan. Not a baby anymore, but neither Tim nor I am willing to stop using the word baby for him. Some time soon we will have to but we can still get away with it for a while longer and we are going to take full advantage of that little bit of time.

Every day he has us laughing. Yesterday he was making up songs and playing a violin Christmas ornament like an electric guitar. It’s more of a ‘you had to be there’ moment. It’s hilarious all the same.

he's trying to cross his legs.

so here they are. Our kids.