Snow Day

If you're related to us by blood or marriage and you're reading this... please understand it as another plea for us all to chip in and spend Christmas up in the mountains (next year?) Yesterday we drove up to the Big Bear Mountains to play in the snow. We had soooo much fun, but as we could only last about 20 minutes before needing to rest and rewarm (and we didn't have a cabin to retreat to) it was a very short trip for a very long drive (see that? that's why we need the holiday in the cabin in the snow) :)

The Northwestern Pole

There is a street nearby in Westminster, CA (Northwestern Lane) where all the houses (except one... bah humbug) are decked out with outrageous light displays and dancing snowmen. Angus had a blast going from house to house and asking "what's that?" about everything he saw

Behind the Scenes of Elf Yourself...

the true miracle of Christmas is getting a baby and dog to wear a foam rubber, red nose!

Beautiful Beatnik Baby

Christmas at Disneyland

So we went to Disneyland & California Adventure last Friday night for Angus' 18 month birthday (just kidding). :)

The first thing we did was watch the Pixar Play Parade. This is how Angus looked for most of it.


but apparently he gets that look from...


We also had dinner with princesses...


Waited excitedly for fireworks and snow...


and promptly fell asleep for them!

Hard at work

My name is Angus... and I like to DANCE!

Yo Gabba Gabba, here we come! (please excuse the frequent breaks. He's 1 and a half, he distracts easily) :)

We speak in sentences

My favorite so far has been "Momma, cracker please" but a hearty "Bye bye dog" and "I want to see that" are fun too.

Here's one of the first, caught on tape a few weeks ago... "where's the ball?"

Merry Christmas! Please accept this in lieu of a card...

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

His First "School" Picture

Angus goes to school. He has since he was 4 months old. You can call it daycare if you want, but if you do, you're lame. It's school... and here's the picture to prove it!

Santa "guy"

I don't know why I thought there would be any chance that Angus would cheerfully greet Santa and pose for photos with him... but I thought I'd give it the old college try and, playing on his love of "guys" (truck drivers, trash men, gardeners, firemen, etc.) I referred to Santa as the "Santa Guy" throughout the day before we were headed to see Santa.

He was excited to meet "Santa Guy" until we got there and he discovered that Santa Guy is a strange old man with a scary beard!

He wouldn't come anywhere near him... even to get a cookie from Santa Guy... but I felt guilty about denying him the cookie altogether so this is the best we could do.



We did have fun coloring though! and wasn't his outfit so dang cute?!

Still so serious...

From the moment he became aware of the world around him Angus has been a serious observer... always looking, soaking, watching, and analyzing everything.


but as he gets older the moments of silliness and play are getting more frequent. We just love this little guy so much!

Gobble Gobble

You may have missed the opportunity to see this in person... it was only available for a limited time. Good thing we caught it on tape!

Happy Thanksgiving

We celebrated a lovely thanksgiving day at Little House... I swear more people than just Angus were there, but as per usual there are more pictures of him than anyone else, all with food on the face. :)

Morning Walks

Lately we've been taking morning walks before Nana comes to pick Angus up for school. It's mostly an attempt to give Olive some more attention and activity but now that we've done it once or twice Angus now demands his "seooes" and "scockies" so we can "go walkee"

Often the walk errupts into some sort of tantrum because he doesn't want to go the same way Olive & I are going. This day I was able distract him with the camera

Pausing mid tantrum to give a hearty "cheese!" for the camera


Hiding to avoid having to put his hat back on


Attempting to run away once he realizes he's been found

Park Day

For Veteran's Day we took Angus & Olive to the park. It was the first really cold day so far this year (you know, a whole 68 degrees or something)

In this photo, Rod looks on as a drunken Angus stumbles down the path...


Baby Boy on a mission to get up close and personal with some Quack Quacks. Later he was so eager to make friends he ran straight into the lake! soggy shoes and socks on a cold day... fun times.


Learning to skip rocks. A 1 1/2 year old can do anything if you just show 'em how! Wait, he was only 16 months here!


Brief Beauty Shot


We also discovered that Angus has quite a talent...

Bathing Beauty

Video Proof

Remember when I posted once about how Angus responded to being asked to set his cup down "gently"? You know, he hugged the cup? Turns out, I did videotape it and found it! Ta DA!