My scary child

I was shopping with all three kids the other day when I heard a little boy exclaim, "Ah!! You scared me!" to Sam.

He had just rounded a corner and came face to face with Sam. I was a little confused at first, wondering why he had gotten so scared, until Sam turned around and I realized he was still wearing his face mask from playing outside in the cold.

I can't say I blame the kid. Imagine you are just a bit shorter than Sam and ask yourself: "Would I want to bump into this guy?"

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Christmas 2014

I just realized I never shared any pictures from Christmas.  That's probably because I was busy directing a play over break. (As usual, as soon as I knew I had some free time coming up, I filled it up with a new project, but I really enjoyed it)

Here is our Christmas Eve "All you can eat seafood buffet" prepared by Seth. Luckily my parents came and help us eat it because it was quite the feast and way more than we could have handled on our own: crab legs, shrimp scampi, salmon fillets, stuffed portabella mushrooms and scallops.

These pictures are of a hayride Seth's parents arranged for the family to take around town for Christmas - complete with hot chocolate!

Celebrating on my side. I think this was our 4th day in a row of Christmas parties:

Charlie turned 2!

...almost a month ago. So I'm a little behind on the blog. I also just realized that I wrote a few posts in January and failed to hit publish, so those of you who check this regularly can look forward to a few updates in the coming week.
Anyway, for Charlie's birthday, we got him a toddler sized drum set.

I was expecting this:

I was not expecting to walk into the living room to this (although I guess I should have):