Christmas, Sweet Potatoes, and It Takes 2

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. We had a very quiet Christmas at home. Addison and Lily had plenty of gifts to open courtesy of Aunt Kathleen, Uncle Jay, Regan, Marshall, Uncle Eddie, Aunt Karin, Leah and Joanna. Not too surprising they really weren't into the whole unwrapping presents thing. But the wads of wrapping paper did peek some interest.

We plan to have a quiet New Year's as well. Mike and I plan to toast the New Year from bed hopefully with 2 peacefully sleeping babies. And, of course, we'll be cheering the Irish come January 2nd.

Here's a couple of videos. One from Christmas Day. One with Lily's experience with sweet potatoes and some fun Mike had with the twins.

Video of scenes from our Georgia trip

You're going to do WHAT?!

Basically this is the reaction Mike received when he relayed our Christmas holiday plans to his colleagues. You see, as a professor in a University on the quarter system, Mike's fall quarter ends before Thanksgiving and he returns to teaching after the New Year. That provides him ample opportunity to do research and provides us with the flexibility to travel. Of course the holidays are the time to be with family and we feel compelled to be with ours. So our plan was to drive to Forsyth, GA to spend time with my parents. Unfortunately from Athens it is a 10 hour drive. Whew! With 2 babies that is quite a feat but not impossible. But wait...we'll also be taking our 3 dogs. Yep we loaded up the whole clan and headed south. The 10 hour drive took more like 12 hours, but we managed to only have about 1 1/2 hours of screaming babies in that whole 24 hour period. Not a bad percentage, but it is still 1 1/2 hours of screaming babies.

And wait...there is still more. Once we returned from Georgia we planned to drive to Washington, DC to spend the Christmas weekend with Mike's folks. Once again with 2 babies and 3 dogs. Unfortunately those plans fell through so the 7 of us will be spending a quiet Christmas at home.

Here are some pictures from our time in Georgia:

Solid food and other tidbits

Denuen update and fun with Jack

We spent the day yesterday in Columbus. It just so happened that our friend Susan Taylor needed a ride to the airport so she joined us. We did a little shopping dropped Susan off and picked Denuen up. Denuen's surgery went well. The doctors found that the mass did not look like what they expected and they thought rather than a cancerous tumor it may be scar tissue from a ruptured anal gland. Never thought I'd be hoping one of my dogs would have a ruptured anal gland...we'll get a call middle of next week to let us know the results of the biopsy. Meanwhile Denuen is on antibiotics and pain meds and resting comfortably on the couch.

This evening Mike, Lily and Addison had a "moment" playing with Jack: