Our Christmas

Merry Christmas!

Christmas morning in their new pajamas

Several days before Christmas, Sean kept saying the Santa was going to bring Hiro (a train) to his house. I'm sure glad Santa delivered! Sean was a very happy boy :)

He played with Hiro all morning, all afternoon, all night, slept with him...

We started a new family tradition of going to the Brookfield Zoo on Christmas. The weather wasn't the greatest, and Stan thought I was pretty nuts for exposing our baby girl to the rain just for this picture...

The cats came out to play....

...and the bears too.

Sean got to make a Christmas wreath

Pick your favorite caption:

"Yes!! Thank you for taking me to the zoo!"

"Look at my muscles - I am so strong!"

"Brrrrrr!"

Hendricks Family Christmas

Addison in her Christmas dress

cutie.

Introducing... Baby Abigail!

Cousins photo attempt #1

Cousins photo attempt #2

Fun in the toboggan with Papa

Happy Birthday, Gram!

A smile to melt Gram's heart

Getting her party clothes on for Gram's birthday dinner at the country club

Pick me up :)

We love you, Gram!!

Evanson Family Christmas

Addison getting on her party dress, shoes & smile

Melissa is the one responsible for many of Addison's cute outfits!

Hendricks Family Photo

All the cousins

The girls

Gram & Papa

Sean had a very wonderful Christmas - here he is checking on his Daddy, making sure he is still okay after spending the last 2 hours working his way through all the toy packaging and assembling his presents!

Another one of those days...

This doesn't quite beat my locked out of the house in the pajamas story, but it is a good mental picture none-the-less.

I took the kids shopping today, and we were doing pretty good until we left Borders, and I realized that Sean would need a diaper change before we went home in case he fell asleep. So I'm changing Sean in the back of the Jeep, in the rain, and Addison starts crying. I can't put Sean's pants back on because they are soaked because he spilled water down the front of them, so now he is wearing a coat and boots --but no pants. I wipe away some boogers and now his nose starts bleeding! To top it off - Stan took him to the zoo yesterday and he still has black circles painted around his eyes (see photo below). So from bottom to top, picture: boots, no pants, diaper, coat, bloody nose, racoon eyes and tears - he now looks like he's been in a fight and a bully took his pants. As I finally console him and get him into his car seat, his red balloon flies out the window and escapes into the clouds and Sean mutters "I want to go home."

"Me too, Sean. Me too." And he is snoring before we even get out of the parking lot.

Wild Thing

Sean and Daddy went to the Zoo... and came home like this - ROAR!

Clark Holiday Party

How we dress on a typical day.

White Christmas

Every year we have our "White Christmas" party with our Chicago family. We had a great time this year - the group grew by 3 kids from last year - so this year we decided to hire a babysitter for the night - it was a great idea...

All the kids in their Christmas duds

Hendricks Family photo before the kids got in their pjs

The Jammies shot

Addison

Check out that smile!

She loves to smile at "peek-a-boo" - while playing in her baby einstein activity gym - and anytime you tell her she's beautiful... not sure what that means as far as her personality yet...

She's also apparently a deep thinker - what do they think about at this age?!?

Her first bottle - was a success!

Sean decided to help too.

"tummy time" - the first few times we put Addison on her belly, she rolled over!

Sean's world

Sean vs. Our back concrete stairs

Water play in the kitchen

Looking tough in mommy's headband -

Cuddle time with Daddy

Driving a combine at the Museum of Science & Industry

Just the right size!

Bridget came over to play!

Hanging out with Christopher at the park :)