Since we've been home- Georgie.

We came home and based on the pictures of the last two weeks, all we've done is dress up.

Mismatched shoes and my new Dora backpack.

A plastic baby toy link as an earring.

All of the jewelry with a magic wand tucked into her dress.

June's Dora dress pilfered from the clean laundry pile.

Don't peek!

Henry's got my blankie!

As mama's been taking down Christmas decorations, she couldn't bring herself to take down this tree Henry made and taped to the wall (with hundreds of pieces of tape).

Mama's been busy too. We're all now proud owners of Angry Birds hats! Though it's been a little traumatic because June is the blue bird and she keeps knocking over the pig (me).

Indianapolis vacation- Henry.

From Ohio, we all packed up and headed down to Aunt Jenni and Uncle Jim's house.

Mama got a new lens for her camera for Christmas. Everybody took turns taking pictures and mama came home with a camera full of crazy pictures of kids and lots of pictures of fruit.

June loves her Pucci Pet!

CeCe.

Natalie.

Evie.

Oliver.

June and Tessa took full advantage of the dress up bin in the basement.

Undead mama.

Excited Uncle Kevin.

Squeaky clean Aunt Jenni.

Goofballs.

Oliver was a willing model. We had hundreds of pictures of him.

Ack!

The get-ups just kept getting more and more elaborate.

The big girls put on an art show.

Tesser.

Grandpa and Oliver were an attentive audience.

CeCe as a Christmas tree.

Best buds.

For a more thorough account of our trip (including a video of Jo in high heels!), check out:

Aunt Jenni's Christmas Post

and

Uncle Kevin's Post of kids sleeping in his van

Christmas Day- JoJo.

We headed to Uncle Kevin and Aunt Elizabeth's on Christmas Day.

All the big kids ran downstairs to play with their new toys. It was just me and Cecelia upstairs and mama wasn't letting go of her.

JoJo1 and JoJo2.

By bedtime, I was pretty zonked. So I grabbed my blankie and headed into cuddle by the Christmas tree.

Lo and behold, at 11pm, I was back up and ready to party. And Grandpa is funny!

Christmas morning- June.

Henry and I were up first on Christmas morning. And even though mama has a rule against waking up sleeping babies, she doesn't have a rule about opening presents without JoJo. We're so excited!

This may be when I yelled "Oh my gosh! I got a whole box of Squinkies!"

Henry played Santa.

A baby Tiana (she's mama's favorite princess, and I guess they've given up on avoiding all princess things).

I couldn't wait to try out my new Squinkies.

Meanwhile, Henry dug into the best Christmas morning tradition of all- Grandma Seibert's homemade cinnamon rolls.

Finally, JoJo woke up and opened her presents too.

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve- Georgie.

On Christmas Eve, we had work to do to get ready for Santa. Henry wrote a letter and Mama made cookies.

Here's the finished product. Henry insisted on 12 cookies. 3 for Santa and 9 for the reindeer (don't forget Rudolph). There was also reindeer food in the bag. It's oatmeal with glitter, so the reindeer could see it when they flew over. Since mama wouldn't let us go up to the roof to sprinkle it out, we just left it in the bag for Santa to distribute.

I hope he knows we're in Ohio!

Mama tried to get a picture of all three of us. It started like this.

And ended like this. As Miss Leah says "A hug is a strangle you haven't finished yet."

Unsurprisingly, Santa almost had to pass us over because June wouldn't stop coming out of her room to talk about Christmas.

More Cooper Christmas- June.

Do you know what JoJo loves! Chairs her size. It's just a matter of getting in there with a book in tow.

Christmas was great this year because Sadie and I are finally getting along. Well, most of the time.

Dash couldn't get enough of Henry's new monster truck. We heard "Rammunition! Rammunition! Rammunition!" forever.

I love Christmas!

Here's a good group shot of us with GG and GG.

We decorated a gingerbread house with Aunt Jill. Sadie was the only one who didn't lose interest after mama told us we weren't going to eat it when we were done.

To round out our last night, we rented "Home Alone" and had a movie night. It brought back a lot of memories for the grown-ups and Henry thought it was so funny.