A Smush Faced Christmas

One of Abby's tricks: sleeping while sitting up.

May I have some Christmas ribs?

Gift opening was very exhausting.

The holidays were very exhausting for the four smush faced doggies. Oscar spent 10 days at Uncle Rocky's Camp for Pugs and Abby and Tuggie joined him for the Christmas weekend. Oscar was very excited to see his beloved Tug, but was rather anxious when Crabby Abby showed up as well. After their Thanksgiving together, a holiday without Abby was on his Christmas wish list. Abby has promised to be nicer to The Pug in 2010. We'll see how that goes... Can you tell we got a new camera for Christmas and needed to practice taking photos?

Ho Ho Ho...

Christmas morning with Tuggie at 665 Edinboro. What did Santa bring us?

Christmas Eve lunch at Goldbergs. Yum. Can't wait to try the bagels.

A mini-Johnny.

Christmas night with sweet Aunt Gwynne.

Action shot.

Gumby checking out his farm from Grammy & Poppa.

Christmas wonder.

Somehow this is the only photo we captured of Elsie (being sweet to Abby) and we never caught Kit! Hopefully Grammy has some photos we can post.

Sweet potatoes!

My parents celebrated my seven month birthday with Grammy & Poppa and some tasty lamb shanks. Maybe one of these months they'll celebrate before I go to bed.

An early Christmas present from Grammy - a Fisher Price Manger! I have loved chewing on baby Jesus and the manger animals this holiday season.

Merry Christmas! We have been remiss in not updating the blog, but somehow the holiday festivities have kept us busy and time has flown by. We headed to Grammy (Pat) and Poppa's for the Christmas holiday weekend and had a great time with Grammy, Poppa, Addie and the Howells/Thompson gang. Kit was walking across the room and up the stairs as she approached her first birthday and Elsie reminded us all about the joy and wonder of Christmas. She was thrilled for Santa's arrival, leaving him a variety of items, including croutons (who knew these were a favorite of the jolly old man) and recited from memory Twas the Night Before Christmas to Tad.

Trimming the tree

Tad supervised our tree decorating while getting in his workout. It's too bad Johnny doesn't have a matching holiday outfit! We attempted to "Abby proof" the tree this year, so hopefully the ornaments are too high for her to destroy. Crabby Abby had her best bah humbug expression on as she watched from her perch on the couch. Tis the season. Tad is determined to move around these days - rolling across the quilt and swimming on his belly. He is getting excited for Santa's arrival.

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Who needs toys when you have Grammy's iphone? The iphone kept Elsie, Kit and Tad entertained. Elsie practiced the alphabet, while Tad and Kit thought the iphone might be a good toy to chew on. Apple hooks another generation...

Tad meets Santa

Ho Ho, as Elsie calls him, visited the Salty Dog the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Tad enjoyed his visit with the old man. He is wishing for a tooth - not his two front teeth - just one tooth.

Happy Thanksgiving

Battle of the birds! We enjoyed two turkeys this year - one cooked on the smoker and one cooked traditional style inside. They were both delicious. Tad enjoyed his first taste of cranberries. We are not sure how much he actually swallowed.

Cheers!

Bouncing in the closet.

Dining with the little people.

Reunited!

The Howells gang gathered at Hilton Head to celebrate Pat & John's 40th wedding anniversary over the Thanksgiving holiday. Happy Anniversary Grammy & Poppa! We had a great time - it was a wonderful first Thanksgiving for Tad. He loved playing with all of his cousins. The kids and grandkids stayed in an unbelievable rental house just a few steps away from the Howells' house, where Grammy and Poppa stayed along with the four smooshed faced dogs.