Love letter to Aunt Gayle

Koh: I think the scaring will be mild so please don't feel bad about the face stabbing you gave me... I know it was a mistake. The main thing I wanted to tell you is that I love you and I love the way you held me and made me feel in your home for all those days last week. I mean it was sooooo busy with sooooo many people and I'm shy and not even a year old... so it was just nice when you held me like you did.

And I loved that you put mommy and daddy in our room for the whoooooooole week. It was so cool having them sleep so close to us and whenever we wanted I could just stand up and almost touch 'em from my crib... and Abe liked that too, he told me so. And for some reason anytime we cried they picked us right up... something they don't do at our house. Way cool.

And all those toys.... they never stopped coming.... are you where Santa goes to get all the toys for the Christmas rush? And I love that you let me and Abe face forward in your car... WOW the views are much better! (Just today we made our mom make our car seats at home do that!) The best toy of all you gave us was the little cousin Jillian... we just don't have anything like her where we come from.

I can't stop thinking about one thing.... the FOOOOOOOOD that you gave me that I never had before. Jello. Pizza. Even a practice 1st Birthday cake. I know I cried on that last one, but it was tears of joy, you know. Plus Abe is such a pig and he had his hands smashed all over that big cake.

But the hugs you gave me were my favorite and I want to hug you more. So please come visit or I'll visit but let's hug a lot more, OK?

Love, Koh (and Abe likes you, too... he just told me)

Christmas trip to Maryland

 Abe:  Over the rivers and thru the airports to Nana Jo's and our cousins we went... for our first Christmas family party in Maryland.   Oh my... we haven't had a party like that in our whole lives, with too many "firsts" to mention, and that's just in the food department.   Click the title to see photo highlights or check out this 3 min movie... 

Click This: Holiday Elves

Abraham: Me and Koh had a little fun today - click on the headline above to see. Now some of you may wonder why there are of four of us. Mommy says that everyone has a twin somewhere in the world so I guess these are ours.

Video: Walking the walker

Koh: it's not a highchair, mom, it's our walker. Watch out... here we come!

What are these hats about??

Abe: Mom and Dad have been taking us places with these silly hats and setting up "jump in" photos - many many too many many photos for .... what?   They keep saying they need one for the annual family Christmas Card... whatever that is.   Anyway, click on this blog's title for a preview of the fun greetings we are sending out this season.