5 am

Middle of the night tantrums demanding impossible items are my favorite.  (Tonight's requests: Grammy, a "different protein bar", "to see the sun now" and a pirate ship.)  (Also Cecily is up.)

Last bit of Christmas

But it was a hit!!!

Santa's favorite

Does he know this guy or what?!

Littlest elf

Can you believe it, Santa came and I'm still awake?!?!

Merry Christmas from Noodle

He came!

All that petitioning by Arthur's grandparents must have worked.  There are a lot of gifts under this tree!

Merry Christmas Eve!

Five years.

It has been five years since our Stitchy cat was called away from this world.  Our lives look so different now it is sometimes hard to remember the days when it was just the three of us - me, Art and sweet Stitch.  But I do know that those were the first days of our family - my very first experiences of being a "Mama," my first chance to get a glimpse of the father my then-boyfriend would someday become.  I will always be thankful that little cat decided to be ours... He was truly one of the greatest blessings of my life.

We love you, Stitchy-cat, and still miss you so.  Hope you and Compy are together, and that you're being nice to him.  It is Christmas, after all.