Note from Alex

Today I ate my brother's yogurt for breakfast. With my brother's toothbrush. Now he gets to have a new toothbrush. Lucky.

Jack takes a picture

Mama loves the boy in front of and behind the camera. This makes her very happy.

One of the top five reasons to have kids, continued

Yesterday: "Mommy, Alex and I are getting married today. Do you want to come to our wedding?"

Today: "Baby, baby, go away, come back another day." (Pause.) "Awww, Mommy, it didn't work, he's still here!"

Christmas '08

From top left: Who needs toys when you've got this ride??; The cookies we made for Santa were THIS BIG!! (actually, Santa got turtle bars this year - little known fact, Santa is actually not that fond of gingerbread); Jack's favorite present, how did Santa ever guess?; So this is snow; Where Alex goes, blankie follows; Drunk on candycanes, Alex takes a probably ill-advised ride on his new train...; not pictured, many, many cool toys and books from Bubba and Grampa Ian and Grandma and Grampa!!