day late and a dollar short

Remember Christmas?  Like 6 months ago?

I was just loooking through my pictures and realized I never blogged about it.  So here goes - the quick and dirty version...

This is a random shot my photographer friend Mandy took of Emi in her Christmas ensemble.  For as many amazing photographer friends as I have, I take some spectacularly craptastic pictures of my own. To be remedied Fall 2013!! :)

Over the holiday we went to the National Children's Museum at the Inner Harbor with the kids and my Dad.  If you are in the DC area I HIGHLY recommend it.  It's brand new - full of fun interactive activities and nearby are some great kid-friendly places to eat.  It's just over the WW Bridge from Old Town/GW Parkway (or, for us, an hour and a half - long story).

waiting for story time to begin.

my blurry boys.

This year was our last Christmas in the house on Fort Worth Ave.  And it was a doozy.  Spectacular cardiac potatoes and a living room brimming with love (and noise... and wrapping paper...) Fortunately, no near-traumatic brain injuries or terrifying falls down hardwood stairs this year.

 a tiny bit freaked by the chaos.  he got in to it though.

 like how Javier is attacking me with the wrapping paper?

 like how my mom and i coordinated our outfits?  what the hell is the matter with us???

glee!

taking it all in.

poor Nena - still in her scrubs from her 12 hr shift at the hospital.  the perils of being a 1st year.

don't judge me...

but apparently i'm not that bright. 

particularly when it comes to switching my brain from using a pc to a mac.

it's supposed to be super intuitive... but apparently that's only the case for the smarties.

in any case i just finished my first iMovie *roar of crowd* of the Christmas holidays.

that's right... Christmas.  don't judge.

you'll note there's only one picture from Christmas Eve - of Javier and his huge gash on his head from tumbling down 14 hardwood stairs in Nana & Richard's house.  marcus asked me not to include it, but i felt it was important for posterity sake.

oh, and the music was the first song i saw when iTunes opened up... let's be grateful it wasn't christmas music.

at this rate, maybe i'll catch up with the rest of my blogging... one day. :(

navidad–the movie–part 2

So I l.o.v.e. my family and it was really sad that we were not planning on going up to DC this year to be with them for Christmas.  When Tia Marga (aka ‘the baby whisperer’) was here she really worked on convincing Marcus that we needed to travel for the holidays, and while there is something to be said about waking up in one’s own house on Christmas morning, as Marcus said, we travel at Christmas – it’s just what we do.  We would have been so sad without them on the 24th and it was the perfect opportunity for my dad to meet the boys and for us to see him on the 25th.  It was a whirlwind trip and poor Nana and Richard’s Christmas presents were left in Charlotte (oops!),  but well worth it.  The fam doted on the boys, Emilia got lots and LOTS of love and attention (no whining whatsoever!) and followed Nena around like her shadow.  We ate terrific food, laughed like crazy, and got to enjoy time together.  That is my bliss.

navidad 2010 from Denise Glaser on Vimeo.

 

some favorite stills…

tia marga was in full effect and had all sorts of activities for emilia to do like this gingerbread house.  according to emi, she had a lot of ‘busy days’ at tia marga’s house.  one thing’s for sure – there was no whining!!!

not a great picture but had to document A and Jack working the Post crossword puzzle.

javier and a.

again, not a great picture, but had to document the annual girl’s trip to the ritz for drinks.  sure fire happy holidays!

so my mama and i.

the baby whisperer in full effect – andres totally asleep on tia marga’s arm.

marcus’ not-great-picture of the kids before church in their christmas outfits  – emilia’s dress from tia claudia/tio esteban and javier and andres in outfits nana brought them from italy.  they both wore their monogrammed bibs from anne and kate (though andres obviously isn’t wearing his in this picture). I promise javier didn’t have this look of terror on his face the whole day.

marga was such a trooper and doted on emi these days.  emilia followed her around ev.ery.where.  seriously.  I would have been SO annoyed if I was her, and maybe she was, but she never let it show.  gracias nena – see you in may!!

javier… meet javier!

nana doing double duty – rocking andres in the carseat and holding javier.

andres

the aftermath.

christmas morning – emilia was completely overwhelmed by the number of presents.  seriously after opening tia marga’s (the first doll house) that was pretty much all she wanted to play with.  it took the rest of the day to open the rest of them.

at grandpa’s in a dress he got her for christmas day. 

navidad–the pre-show

Oh, how did I start the year this far behind! Yikes!!!

Emilia’s class had a little Christmas celebration the day before school let out.  They sang two songs (“Jingle Bells” and “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”) and with the help of Ms. Paige told the Nativity story.  Sweet Sweet.

I love the look on emilia’s face in this picture as she’s staring at the jacksons (jackson j. in vest, jackson h. giving a bear hug).

and two videos from their ‘performance.’

Untitled from Denise Glaser on Vimeo.

christmas program #2 from Denise Glaser on Vimeo.