Hey look, the baby woke up!

OK, last one. Really.

Last one

At highway speeds the road noise really drowns out the girls' DVD. Of course, we can't have that. We stopped at Wal Mart on day 1 to get some external speakers. I thought we could just put them somewhere in the back to help with the sound. Turns out, they're not loud enough either but the kids don't seem to mind sitting there holding them up to their ear when they want to watch the movie. For some reason, we find the visual really humorous. It reminds me of something that I can't quite put my fimger on. Or maybe it's just road-weary delirium. Highly possible.

What the baby's doing while I play with my new phone

Hi from the road

I love my new phone. My business Christmas present to myself. Chris was nice enough to take me over to the Apple store in Raleigh and I picked out my new Precious. Now I have a toy to play with while Derek drives. So I just figured out how to post here from the road.

Here's one from the Mohr Family Road Trip '08.

More from Christmas

I get pressed for time and rarely edit the outtakes. Doni reminded me with a recent post how much personality they have. Much more really than everybody jsut smiling for the camera. Here are a couple from yesterday.

This was taken before the middle one consented to join the shoot. If I remember correctly she was just out of the frame camera left engaged in some form of 3 year old histrionics. I like this one becuase Charlotte so adores her baby brother. She takes her role as big sister (and the oldest sibling in general) very, very seriously.




I like all of these because they show how much both girls like the baby. They usually like to paw all over him and get right up in his face. He loves the attention.







I thought this was a great big sister, little brother moment. It goes down hill from here I think, Eli.

Merry Christmas to Me

This was my gift from the kids this year. It's all I wanted for Christmas.



I wish I could tell you that they happily sat and played and posed for me, but that would be far from the truth. The amount of angst that 3 minutes in front of the camera generates is really quite astounding. We're talking Oscar-caliber performances all around. And then I had to tell them that there would be no lollypops for dessert and that Santa would take back all their presents and that baby Jesus would be sad. OK, I actually didn't say any of those things. I try not to bribe or threaten or cajole, especially over silly things like pictures. But believe me I thought it all in my head. And a few other choice things, too.

Seriously, it has been a wonderful Christmas (with more left to celebrate) and these three to wake up to Christmas morning along with my amazing husband and our whole extended family is truly all I could ever want.

He can sit

He looks like such a fireplug when he sits. Partly it may be the overalls which are a little big. Mostly, it's just him :) I can't get enough of squeezing this kid.

The missing link

It's been an awfully long time since Grace let me photograph her. We took a bunch more pictures this afternoon that I hope will materialize into our Christmas card. A bonus for me was a few of just Gracie that we took while Charlotte and Eli were getting ready.





I just love this kid so much.