Christmas

We had a great Christmas.

 No more books for Leigh. She won't open a new present until she's done reading her book.

 It's not clear when this one turned into a teenager. I'm scared.

Oh, but wait, she's just a little fairy. It must have been a phase.

The day after Christmas, we went to Ikea to get some shelves to hold Danny's toys. Hanako helped assemble them. This her face of ultimate concentration, not an unchi face.

Night skate!

December (iii)

 Winter! Hockey! Outdoors!

 Indoors!

 Title IX!

December (ii)

It is hard to beat trimming the Christmas tree on a snowy day.

December (i)

 Leigh is sprouting some hair here!

 

They both love the camera.

Eagles!

 First, I was left alone with the girls. We made a mess with Play-Hoh.

Then I made a meat helmet out of orange Play-Doh.

Sunday, we went to our first Eagles game! We got to go onto the field. A very nice NFL employee took this photo.

 The Eagles played terribly but we had a good time.

The guy in the white shirt is Susannah's paralegal's son-in-law. The guy in the grey hoodie and blue sweats holding the cord - that's his son. Pretty good gig if you can get it.

October Girls

Hanako got the "Trouble" game pieces on her fingers and thus:

October

 Danny got to wear the goalie pads this week. He got coached up by a goalie-playing parent:

We went to the beach yesterday. It was windy; so windy I only got this photo of Hanako before everyone ran back to the van.

 First game in goal this morning! This is a pre-faceoff strategy session.

 Danny has the concentration for the job.

 Paddle-down technique!

September Update

 Danny Hawkins turned 7; Lasertag!

Extreme candle-blowing.

 Hockey is back on. Saturday at 7am!

 Speed.

 Tryouts!

Danny getting ready to snipe in his first game; Grandpa Lee and Grandma Steffy had the early-morning duties and cousin Kaiya took the photos.

 Here's Leigh's former pre-school teacher stopping by the house to keep her academics up. Hanako likes to butt in, Danny too.

 And then Casey.

Danny is Seven

Sometime during all this excitement we took a family trip to Cabelas to get Danny's birthday present.

 

Standing in the checkout line Susannah wondered, "How did I end up in Cabelas buying a bow for my son, who has a mohawk?"

C-Diff Cure

On Day 9, Leigh left the hospital.
On Day 10, she slept all day and sweated through her clothes. She had the c-diff diarrhea.

 So I did what any red-blooded 'Merican parent would do - I fixed her.

This is exactly what you think it is. Hanako's magic beans. The recipe only called for 2 grams per 500mL of sterile saline. I told Susannah, "I'm going heavy on the active ingedient." She replied, "How did I know you were going to do that?"

 The magic potion, after processing.

And Leigh never had diarrhea again. The End.