More Family Fun

Evelyn, Gaffer, and Agnes or Therese

Making the inside of my pot cupboard their home.

(going found the table in clockwise order: Sebastian, Hugh, John Paul, Magdalene, and Edmund.

Melinda with (left to right) Agnes and Therese

Happy Lucia!

Patrick and Agnes

Magdalene and Edmund were teaching Sebastian how to climb over a fence.

Standing on the doghouse in the dogrun.

Taking a moment to warm themselves by the bonfire.

On their ship.

Magdalene and Evelyn.  At this point in the day, Evelyn has changed clothes after dumping cold coffee all over herself.

Hugh, Magdalene, and Edmund holding John Paul and Lucia's little brother, Henry.

Christmastime with Cousins, first of many

Here are some pictures of the kids with their Texas cousins.

Magdalene and Sebastian

Magdalene, Evelyn, Edmund, and Sebastian

Hugh and Evelyn

Sebastian with one of the twins, Therese I believe.  I had a picture of both Agnes and Therese, but the program keeps turning it sideways, so I will get another one some time.

My Little Girl

A few pictures of Evelyn, just because.

My little ghetto baby.

She climbed up and sat like this so as to play with the manger set. 

Attempting to take a picture for her godparents.

I didn't really love this photo until I realized that she had a 104 fever at the time.

Decorating the Tree

Here are a couple pictures of us decorating the tree.

These next few pictures were the following day.  Evelyn loves to put this canvas bag on her head and try to walk around (even though she can't see).  This is her narrowly avoiding the front door.

She thinks the tree is really pretty, so she was sitting in front of it looking at the lights and playing with this Styrofoam ornament.

Baptism Day

December 15th is Sebastian's baptism day.  This year we forgot this fact until late in the afternoon, but we did eventually remember.  Here are a few pictures from the day (we also picked up our Christmas tree, which you can see in the background of one of the photos). 

She got her bottle, her bear, sat down, and pulled the blanket over her lap. 

His little vestments that Godmother Amy made him.

Excited that we just put up the tree.

Sebastian said...

While playing with his army men, Sebastian told me the following:

S:  "Mommy did you know that some of the good guy’s got killed?  That happens in battle.  But, did you know that all of the bad guys and good guys are surviving?" 

Me: "So they were wounded, not killed?"

S: "No, they are all dead, but now they are waking up from their deadness."

Me: "How does that work?"

S: "I don’t know, it’s just magic, it’s simple magic."

Sebastian's 5th Birthday

 It is hard to believe that this kid was born five years ago.  Sometimes he seems so young but then there are days that I have to remind myself that he is only five.  I was recently watching some videos of him from when we first moved to North Carolina, amazingly enough he was only 2 1/2 at the time.  It all goes by so fast that I have a difficult time remembering it all.  I sometimes wonder what he will be like when he grows up, but mostly, I'm just trying to enjoy him while he is little.

Green mouth from eating frosting, yumm!

The dinosaur cake.  I started decorating cakes for their birthdays because my mom did it for us.  But every time I have to do another one I think, "why did I start this?"  But then, he gets so excited and tells me how nice it looks, and the two hours + of work is worth it.

Best part of blowing out candles.

About the thing on his head:  I wanted him to have something like a crown, but I only saw these things that said "Happy Birthday" on them.  Patrick said it made him look like a little girl. Sorry Sebastian.

He got two sets of Mass Clothes (as he calls them) for his birthday and I am very happy to say that he acts excited about them.  Even if he isn't really that excited, at least he is polite.

This was real excitement, the Helm's Deep Lego set that he got from Gaffer and Grammy.