Christmas 2009

Here are a bunch of pictures from Christmas on the East Coast. I've only captioned the ones that seemed as though they might require a little additional information (but I did divide them into time at the Munzes and time at my parents' house - the Fauchers).

Munzes





Islip Fire Department's traveling Santa!
Sydney learning about the antique music box.




Lego wagon!

Sydney's Great Grandmother Munz








Fauchers

Learning about the comics from Papa.

All dressed up with Nana for Great Grandma Faucher's 90th Birthday Party/Photo Shoot









Dance party with the cousins (with boots!)

Tim and Kelli celebrate their birthdays.

'Tis the Season

Apparently 'tis the season to be really busy. We apologize for not posting anything since Halloween. We have had a few photo worthy moments in the last 6 weeks and they are in this post starting with the most recent happenings. Sydney was not deterred by the first snow of the season. Instead, she decided to embrace it in all of her winter gear!

Sydney continues to get a kick out of her box hat.

Sydney's Grandma filled her advent calendar with lots of goodies. She has enjoyed opening the doors each day to find a surprise. She made good use of the expanding Mickey washcloth.


Sydney enjoyed opening her gifts from St. Nicholas!


Our 6th Annual Santa Lucia party with the last of our "backyard special" Christmas trees!

Right before our Santa Lucia party our friend Julie came and outfitted Sydney for the occasion!

I love this dress on her...the accents are cows. Sydney saw them and immediately said "Moo!"

Sydney's Grandma and Grandpa came to celebrate Thanksgiving with us...and to enjoy story hour.

Here are both sides of our Thanksgiving table.

We had a visit from Lucy Claire and James Henry (and their parents) before Thanksgiving. Here are the book worms...

And the happy trio!

We traveled for back-to-back conferences in Lawrence, KS and Chicago, IL. Here is Sydney at our friends' apartment in Kansas.

Halloween

One more picture of Sydney and her mom with all the leaves in our yard...

Sydney was able to wear her costume to Mom's Time Out last Thursday. It was a big hit!

Here is Sydney's "World's Cutest Witch" shirt from her Grandma.

We went to help Megan and Bo celebrate their birthdays and Sydney livened things up in her costume.

Since giraffes don't make much noise, we taught Sydney to stick her tongue out in response to the question "What does the giraffe do?" Pretty cute.

Special thanks to Lucy Claire for lending the costume!