Exercise in the Exersaucer!

Will's big gift from Santa was an Exersaucer. He is slowly warming up to it and can now be happy in it for about 10 minutes per "session." Not a lot, but it gave me time to mop the floors today! Woo hoo! These little things make me happy these days!

I know it's been a while since the last blog post. Sorry for the delay...I just lost my blogging mojo for a while! Happy 2009!

This one's fuzzy but I love his expression!

Can I help you, Mom?

Yippee! I caught a smile on camera!!!!!!!

I've got the hang of this!

A tip...

I posted a lot of pictures from Christmas...so many that they take two whole blog "pages." An easier way to scroll through them is to find the "Blog Archive" on the left side of this screen and click where it says "January." Then it will display all the Christmas pics on one page. :-)

Christmas in VT!

As most of you loyal blog followers already know, Justin and I hosted both sides of the family here at 59 Oakcrest for Christmas 2008! It was Will's first Christmas, and it was excellent! After the dust settled, I realized I have about 1000 pictures (literally) to sort through! So, I did my best this evening to find some jewels for the blog. But, two hours is my limit, so I'm done for now!

For those of you who use Facebook--a lot of this will be redundant. But many of our "fans" don't, so I feel the blog should document this wonderful family holiday!

These are in no particular order, almost all include Will (which is how  I narrowed them down), and everyone who was here is included! But you'll have to look at multiple pages to see everything! Happy browsing--and Happy New Year!

Cousin Elliott was so curious about Will!

Aunts and babies!

Aww...Grandma and Grandpa Maloney were loving their time with Will!

Last-minute snuggles with Granny Mary (is this an OK title?!?!). I love it!

Keep scrolling for more photos! :-)

Uncle Hayden gets some Will time.

The kids and their kids went on a drive through the mountains and had dinner at The Alchemist, a great brewpub!

The babies were so easy!

Will's big Santa gift!

Kissing Cousins

Will and Elliott are four months apart in age, and they met for the first time over Christmas. There are MANY great shots of them together, but I think this series of photos of them in their matching his/her PJs is priceless!

CHRISTMAS!

I'm plugging away at providing a snapshot of what Christmas was like at our house this year...16 people were here at the peak! Wow! Keep scrolling for more Christmas fun!

A random assortment of fun!

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Looks like the babies are losing it!

I love this one--the pink grannies!

Will was asleep and this is fuzzy, but it gives a glimpse of our gift-giving scene!

More Christmas love...

Poppi and Will...isn't Will getting long?!

Will's signature serious look. I swear he smiles more off camera!

The boys.

The boys plus one girl!

Will's first Christmas extravaganza...continued

Keep scrolling down, there are lots of pictures to see!

Christmas dinner didn't do much for Will!

Aunt Sarah was SOOO happy to be with both babies at once!

Both grannies, Aunt Sarah, and the babes.

Elliott loved touching Will's head! :-)

More from Christmas 2008

OK, Will isn't in this picture, but our tree looks great and it was hard to capture good shots of the tree, believe it or not!This is just after Aunt Kim, Uncle Hayden, and Cousin Elliott arrived. It was so sweet to see the babies together!

Will says, "Teach me all you know, Elliott!"

Poppi is in heaven with his grandson and his granddaughter!

Will says, "Welcome to my crib, Elliott!"

Will's first Christmas...continued!

OK, I can already see that I will go crazy trying to choose between hundreds of great holiday photos. So, the only photos that will make the blog are those that include William. It's his blog, after all! :-) For all the other photos, see Facebook. And if you don't use Facebook, now's the time to start! 

Jack, Will, and Ella. The first of many Christmases together! 

The inevitable assembly period that happens every Christmas morning! Thanks, Santa! 

We were SO sad to see Tim, Kerry, Jack, and Ella leave!

Will got lots of snuggles from Grandpa Tom (one of his namesakes)!

More Christmas shots...

Playing video games was a popular diversion. From left: Tim (my brother), Justin and Will, and Jack (my nephew--Tim's son)

Kerry (my sister-in-law)

 and Tim were over the moon--they met Will for the first time during this visit! 

My mom was over the moon too!

Christmas Day with kids is SOOOO much fun!

Christmas at our house!

My niece Ella was very comfortable with Will!

Ella is SO darling, with such a great personality!

This is my brother Tim and his daughter (Ella). Aren't they so darn good looking?!?

We added my dad to the mix here!