Pictures I've been meaning to post

... but keep forgetting.

This is what Maggie looks like on the way back down after she's been tossed into the air.

Tjabe dressed up

Maggie in her Christmas dress, with her beloved toothbrushes

Tjabe cooking dinner (pancakes)

A conversation...

I just had with Tjabe. He had been sitting on the toilet, reading Go Dog, Go! and doing his... duty (he he, I said duty - thanks for laughing, fellow Scrubs fans). Anyway, I peeked in to check on him, and here's what followed:

T (enticingly): Hey Mooooom-my... look in the toooiii-leeeeet...

Me (looking in at two complacent "products"): Oh good job buddy! Now let's get cleaned up.

T: But hey Mommy, look at that one (pointing to the one sitting on top of the other in the toilet). Isn't it coooool?!

I didn't see anything particularly cool about it, just an ordinary every-day turd, but I occasionally like to be supportive, so I agreed with him. Are little girls like this too?

Random holiday shots, all out of order

It’s late, so I’m not going to say a lot, but you all just look at this for the pictures anyway, right?

Someone turned four, and we made him a rainbow cake.  It looked so cool.

Maggie got a tutu for Christmas from surrogate grandparents Cathy and Karl.  Thanks, guys!

Our advent tree, which I mentioned in an earlier post.

We got a Betta fish for Maggie, since we got Tjabe blocks for Christmas.  Of course, he loves the fish and she plays with the blocks.  Is any gift really just for one kid, when you have more than one?  We’ve named him Mott, since those are sounds Maggie can say.  Tjabe came up with the name all by himself, but to make sure we spell it right he pronounces it “Mot-t-t.”