What a whirlwind these holidays were! The first ones for Shea and Cooper and of course Santa came to visit them. It seems we've celebrated ten times over. We started on Christmas Eve by hosting Jenene's parents and my parents and her brothers family. Christmas Day we had dinner at Jenene's parents and then went to my parents. By the time we made it there, it was already passed the kids bedtime and they get cranky and don't want anyone else but Jenene and I when they are tired. They did have some fun though playing with their cousins. Then all the rest of our free time has been getting stuff for the house. We celebrated Christmas again with our good friends the Iandoli's. It was bitter sweet with them as our beloved Aunt Mary was not with us this year for it. But we made the most of it and tried to smile through it. Next we celebrated with the Defalco family who were good friends with Jenene's sister. So pretty much Shea and Coop had 3 Christmases and loved every one of them. They even learned some new tricks over the holidays. They will put up one finger when you ask how old they are. they put their arms wide when you say "So Big!". They will give you a kiss when you ask them and Cooper will even give dit dits. But probably the biggest is that Shea has now learned to stand up! She did it once over the weekend and by the end of the weekend she was doing it all over. We heard her crying in the middle of the night last night and sure enough,there she was standing up in there. I guess next she is going to take some steps. Who knows, maybe she will walk before the first birthday. She earned her lovely picture here.

Now it's back to reality and the next event we have is their birthday. Jenene's parents leave this week for Florida so we have a rude awakening coming with no help. We'll get through it though.