merry christmas!

what a crazy holiday it has been. my poor little guy has been very sick. so sick, that we took him to albany medical center's pediatric er. thankfully, he is ok and it wasn't what they were thinking it may be. the best christmas present in my book:)

speaking of christmas, jack received some awesome gifts this year from santa, his parents, grandparents, aunts/uncles...he really is a lucky boy.

here are some pics from the past week or so...

making his way towards his presents!

his santa gift...


even not feeling well he's so cute

he kept his tie on the entire day...he's all business;)

the best family gift we could get!?

playing a little "chest" as jack calls it!

this was the day he started to get really sick...you could tell he wasn't feeling well,
but i had to get his smoothie "mustache"

do we have enough ice?

we had our first "snowfall" this week. if you can call a half inch of actual snow accumulation!? on the eve of the fall, i surprised jack and let him head out after dinner with mike to play some hockey (it was way too cold to take little d out during the day, but jack was dying to play in the snow). they had so much fun! jack associated the snow as "ice" for the game (hockey, of course!). so now he is always asking if we have enough "ice?" to play!? he is just too cute.

oh brotherly/sisterly love...

or is he secretly trying to kill her?! i kid, sort of:/

jack goes back and forth between loving his sister and tackling her. like all things, he loves hard and plays hard, but what he doesn't realize is that he is much stronger than her. regardless of whether it's a hug or a tackle, he practically bowls her over every time! i literally have to ask him to stop about 40 times a day. nothing actually seems to stop him, and i secretly think he is doing it for attention.

here is a cute moment i caught of the two of them over the weekend. it was an early morning for us...6:30 i think, hence their crazy hair/puffy eyes (both of which i'm afraid they've inherited from me unfortunately. the hair at least, for obvious reasons;)

daley now insists on her own snack trap of cereal in the a.m.
i can't believe she's got it figured out already!

it's beginning to look a lot like...

christmas!

as per tradition, we cut our tree down the weekend after thanksgiving. this year there was no snow, but it was certainly cold. in typical fashion, one of our children decided not to cooperate, and about 5 minutes from the tree farm daley fell asleep!? so mike hung back in the car while jack and i set out to find the perfect tree! we also helped mimi and apa find there perfect tree as well.

we took about 10 "family" pictures...yup this is the best of the bunch?!

smiling next to "our" tree:)