O's Closing Ceremony

"The tiger in the jungle says Roar, Roar, Roooaaaaar!"
 And once again the 2 year-old's steal the show at the pre-school closing ceremony.  I live for this.

"Hey Sis! What are you doing way up there?"

With her faaaavorite classmate all clad in seersucker (and mommy's pearls).

Suffering through relentless torture from mamarazzi--with fake smiles. Hilarious.

Lucas Moments

Good times. Lucas' personality has fully emerged as a loveable, cuddly, happy, pick-eating, family-oriented, shy to strangers, fiery to friends, and destructive to anything his sister tries to construct. Ahhh (sighh).  A true little brother. And when he started walking at ten months--there was no turning sitting still---ever. The boy is wearing a path into our wood floors.

His daddy thought he was sleeping but he was peeking at me. LOL.

This is how Lucas took his first steps. While Olivia didn't like the lion much, he LOVED it.

Solitary Snow...

It really only snowed with a little accumulation once this year. Atypical for Maryland but then again the very definition of Maryland weather is "atypical."

Little-to-no snow didn't keep us from having s'mores about 432 times starting in October and well into March!

January - Celebrating "The King"

Aside from something charitable, we started a new educational tradition this year with the kids to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King.

We took the short (but long when you're 2 with a 2 year old bladder) road trip to D.C. will go on record as THE COLDEST day of the year (and in my memory) other than the day of Obama's Inauguration (UNREAL--and I didn't even leave the house).

We had a great time...MLK, Lincoln, and Vietnam memorials, and finally National Harbor--for lunch and kiddie crafts.

I love this one. Had no idea what I was capturing at the time.

These kiddies never once cried or complained about the cold.