Santa Claus brought a baby doll and a puzzle, but Santa Becky brought hand-me-downs

Mail hold! Christmas card edition

A pit stop (and now we're home)

Somewhere in Southern Indiana

Tons of Christmas pics!

Google Photo link:

 https://photos.app.goo.gl/LNWczyewT1zXvpYEA

Warm wishes!

Merry Christmas!

Santa Claus is coming to town!

 

Christmas movie time

Studying their new gifts

Cousins at the light show at the Morton Arboretum

Christmas in Chicago

The last mile

On the move

Green Day and Red Day at school

Winter blooms

On the edge of her feet

A canopy of one's own

The Sunday Funny

 On our way to school we pass a Dairy Queen, and it recently closed, and the sign has been disassembled.

"Why did that Dairy Queen close?" Dorothy asked.  "Was it that thing where the workers stop working for a while?"

"A furlough?" I asked.

"No."

"A strike?"

"Yes, that's the one.  Or maybe the workers all decided to quit."

"Maybe."

"Or maybe all the workers are sick?"

"Could be."

"Or maybe they decided to get jobs somewhere else?"

(I thought she was going to bring up the supply chain next.)

Mr. Popper's Penguins

 

Bed and a good book (likely about fairies)

Neighborhood Christmas gathering, and a comparison from last year to this year

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy borrowed two flashlights from Gram and brought them to Uncle Daniel's house.  Afterwards, back at Gram's house, I asked, "Dorothy, did you leave all the flashlights at Daniel's house?"  "No," she answered, "there's one left."

Dorothy's spelling homework was to do a practice test outdoors in sidewalk chalk.  There were 8 words.  When she was done, I started to "grade" it.  I said, "skills...correct...10%.  rocks...correct...20%."  Dorothy stopped me right away.  "You're only going to give me 80%?" she figured out.

I told Dorothy that I took a trip to the store but it didn't have what I needed.  "It was a bomb," I said.  "It was a bummer," she countered.  "Bummer is bad, bomb is good."

Dorothy's class has an elf that moves around at night.  I asked Dorothy, "Where does she live when it's not Christmas?  I mean, what does Ms. Hattrich do with her?"  And Dorothy informed me, "Well, she's from the North Pole, so I assume she lives there."

More Neighborhood Baby

Dorothy lives to find her elf after a night's antics

Willa's birthday dinner

Slime Advent calendar

Lots of photos from Thanksgiving (in reverse order)

 

breakfast with Will on their stopover

piano with Will

Patrick, Will, & Sadie +1

The baptism crew with Godparents Mary Beth & friend Travis

Alina, David, Maggie at the baptism

Daniel & Dad

Maddux's baptism

Kids at the baptism

Second vaccination

Alina at the gift exchange

gift exchange

magic trick set

hugging thanks

Advent wreath (David, Andrew, DJ, Mary Claire)

Advent wreath

Maddux, 3 months old

doe & fox

that oven

veggie turkey

Godzilla in the game

Andrew on the tablet

brothers eating lemons