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Where Have We Been?

Sick!

For those who are regular followers of this blog, you may have been missing some updates.  Unfortunately we had quite the sick January - which lasted about 25 days, and consisted of 3 or 4 different viruses.  When you pass that among five children and 

even share a little bit with mom, it can really cause all other 

things to fall off the schedule for a while.

All the children ended up sick in one way or another. 

Tiger Lilly lasted the longest without getting sick, but

when she finally did, she ended up being hit the hardest.

So, we are hopeful we will be healthy for while now.

But it is still winter...so we shall see....

Christmas Day

I missed putting a few Christmas photos on the Blog

from Christmas afternoon.

We spent it with cousins, aunts and uncles and Grammie.

New Lego sets are always exciting.

Girls were very excited for their new 

baby doll items as well.

We had such a Christmas this year :) 

Food Stand

This little lady really wanted to set up a

food stand and "sell" the food to her siblings.

So, we put this together and she had a great time.

Brothers

Snowman Craft

One child refused to look at the camera. 

But some days you just take what you can get.

Tower Builder

Christmas Celebration at Grandma and Grandpa

Christmas Program at GiGi's

For the past several years now we Nathan's mom 

has organized a Christmas program at Nathan's Grandma's.

All the grandkids (17 children, 9 years of age and younger)

this year help put on the performance.

First, they sing several Christmas songs together.

Sweet boy playing his "drums" for Drummer Boy.

This picture below is sweet to me, because when

all the children lined up in the row above, Puppy J walked

by the entire row, looking up at all the children

and looking as if he was wondering where his spot

to stand was.  He saw his big brother, and placed

himself right next to him.  He stood there contently

through the entire performance.  It was so sweet.

After the children sing songs, they then put on a

Nativity Skit.

We had a cow.

A camel.

An angel

and a wise man and Joseph.

Here is the cast.

It was a nice evening and everyone seemed to have a nice time.