Morning at the Conservatory

Digging in the dirt

Watering plants 

That's one way to do it Rose

Taking the path 

Fun with friends

Mary Francis, Katy and John Paul visited for a play date. 

Blaise strikes a pose with his masterpiece 

Happy birthday Baby Jesus!!

Annual NYE brunch and book exchange at Skonys. My, the kids have grown!

And three more to come...

:)

Quick trip to MI

Riding Sandy at Meijers

(Gus won't take that jersey off.)

Hanging at Mimi's

Bass Pro Shop on the way home for a diversion

Christmas morning

Santa came!

Rosie got cereal, her favorite. 

A remote control dump truck for Gus. A remote control helicopter for Blaise. (But apparently also for Tommy! :) )

Rosie opened a piano. 

Gus's new hat. 

Kids gave dad a jersey. They got the dump truck going. 

Rosie in her rain boots builds a tower. 

Football Jammies!

Cousin birthday bash

Elisa and Colin share a birthday! Yesterday we celebrated at Navy Pier's Winter Wonderfest. 

Carousel...

Attempted cousin pic in front of Star Wars tree

And, the seven dwarves (until March) :)

The birthday kids wore their special shirts. 

Happy bday, Happy Gus!

Gus is 4 today. Hudson remembered the big day. 

We had the annual fun Demko Christmas at Aunt Theresa's. Rosie and her fave guy. (Besides Dad!) 

Gus enjoys his cake. His gift was the Corey Crawford jersey which he is now sleeping in. He wouldn't take it off. 

We took Blaiser to Star Wars yesterday. It was such a well done movie. It was nice to get out with our big boy.