Wednesday, December 10, 2008

One Year Check Up and Santa #1

Bath Time!! Mommy and Daddy got brave and started putting us all in the bath at the same time. It is kind of like trying to contain mexican jumping beans - everyone wants to stand up and climb out at the same time. Mommy has to say "On your bottom!" about 50 times during each bath (too bad we have no idea what she is talking about!)

Ella loves her bath

Helen is unusually still for a moment

We had our one year check up at the doctor this week and we were all pronounced very healthy - the doctor may have even said we were "perfect" but mommy does not want to push her luck. We had a great time playing with the new toys while we waited for our exams. We were doing fine until we had to get our shots. But after the shots, we were introduced to one of the many wonders of the world - suckers. We each got a different color and mommy and daddy were cleaning sticky slober off of us for days.

Cousin Jennifer sent us new pajamas for our birthday. After breakfast one morning mommy left us in our chairs (to prevent the usual crawling around the occurs during a picture) and propped us in front of our Christmas tree (this is the closest we are allowed to the tree).

Sunday was the holiday luncheon at Daddy's work. Did you know that other people have that cool green uniform too?? Here we are seeing Santa for the first time ever.

We did great at lunch (food usually keeps us happy) but at five minutes until 1:00 (1:00 is naptime), Alex started losing it. Eat and sleep - those are his priorities in life. Here's mommy trying to keep him happy until it is our turn to get a picture with Santa.

We had no shortage of admirers at lunch. When we first walked in, we were trying to get everyone situated so daddy had to hand Ella to someone. She had no problem and proceeded to get passed from person to person the whole time. Of course Helen cried the first stranger that she saw and Alex has happy flirting with everyone -- from Mommy's arms.

Merry Christmas Santa!! (no way was Helen going to sit in Santa's lap so mommy got to be in the picture too -- and we are pretty sure Santa had a glint of fear in his eye at the thought of holding 3 babies)

Alex soaks up the testesterone (especially in the "sissy" overalls that mommy put him in)

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