5 Days To Go!

Sick parents...

I thought that it was tough taking care of two sick children - we realized the past few days that it is much easier to take care of sick children when you are well than taking care of well children when you are sick!

Besides being sick - Josh has been busy graduating!!!  He was 'hooded' yesterday during the winter commencement.  He still has one last thing to do to be official which is to defend his dissertation.  He will schedule that once he has accepted a job and we know where we will be living.  I will do a separate blog about graduation once I feel better and can give the monumental occasion the attention it deserves!

Christmas came early!

Christmas came early this year in the form of visit from Grandpa Terry and Uncle Andy.  

Abram loved his tool set from Uncle Andy.

He was hammering away on anything that would sit still, this includes cats, sisters...

Another favorite was Lion King from Grandpa Terry.  Note to other parents of small children - Lion King is scary and sad and scary.  I was not aware since this is the first time I had ever watched the movie.  

 Josh got the best gift of all.  A ham.  He was really, really quite happy with it.  It's a good thing he only got one ham because three hams would certainly kill him.

 Stella was happy that she got a workbench so she could hammer away just like Abram.

She also got the most adorable little jacket from Uncle Andy.

How cute!

 Abram roped Grandpa into reading book after book after book.

 Uncle Andy read a few too.

Awwwwwww

We miss you Uncle Andy and Grandpa Terry!

Sick babies

So we had a break in our Christmas countdown.  Stella got an earache and pink eye on Friday morning and by Friday night Abram was sick with the flu.  Somehow in all of this sickness we haven't had any cross-contamination but I am sure it is only a matter of time.

In the meantime - here are some more adorable pictures.  I think these are my favorite of Stella.

Oh - who's counting anyway....

19 To Go

20 & 21

22 Days to Go!

23 Days To Christmas

 

It was WWF in the Comstock-Livermore household tonight.  I'm pretty sure Stella won.

24 Days Til Christmas (well really 23 but don't tell)

25 Days of Christmas

We recently had photographs taken of Abram and Stella.  I think the pictures are beautiful and perfectly capture their personalities.  Since I've been so bad at taking pictures lately I thought I would update our blog between now and Christmas with a few shots a day taken at the session.  If you are in the Iowa City area and looking for a great photographer and all round great gal check out www.heatherjahn.com.