Ballerina

This is the face Gracie makes when you point the camera at her.  She does it very purposefully.

This is me trying to make her laugh.  Sometimes I can get her to break out in a big grin.  Not this time.  She just. barely. contained. it.

I did get her to spin for me, though.

Father-Son

Today being MLK day, we eked out one more day of do-nothing-on-vacation.  Tomorrow, back to school/work.

I came downstairs yesterday morning to find my two boys, both with their hair sticking straight up.  So funny.  Eli got his Daddy's hair for sure.  He also seems to have gotten his individualistic free spirit and occasional aloofness.  If he also gets a fraction of his Daddy's generosity, compassion, and strength of character, I will be a happy, proud Mom.

The men in my life...

Eli wouldn't sit for me to get a picture of the two of them together, but you can kind of get the effect from these two frames.  Derek and I laughed about it looking at these.  Then, last night I was watching the Golden Globes and look at the style that Al Pacino is sporting... :)



Sledding

We had a great time in Lake Placid.  We did alot of sledding just outside our hotel room door and swimming in the awesome pool.  The girls made it out skiing with Derek one afternoon and went for a dogsled ride.  Eli said his longest original sentence to date  - "Come on!  Let's go!  To swim!"   Well, I guess that's 3 sentences (or fragments) actually.  But it was clearly understandable and he said it directly to us to tell us what he wanted so it's a big milestone for him.

I intended to take more pictures, but just didn't get around to it.  These are from our first afternoon there.

 Eli didn't really like the sledding.  He loves to eat the snow.

Happy 2011

I think the holiday/New Years cards are a bust. We'll just look ahead to next Christmas, mmmkay?

These are from the photo shoot before I threw in the towel on the cards. I have more - some cute shots of Grace and some of all three - but I will spread them out over several blog posts. I'm not a real New Year resolutions kind of person, but I would like to make more posts in 2011 than in 2010. So I've got to pace myself.

My sweet boy. He's pretty hard to photograph these days.  But still super cute (bad haircut and all).