Sunday, December 09, 2007

Christmas cheer

We had a wonderful evening last night at our home with Beth, James, Helena and Ava. It had been quite awhile since all of us (including the boys) had been together so it was great to catch up as a group. As an added bonus, my mom is in town visiting and she acted as Grandma to all the kids but especially to the two toddlers. Claire also enjoyed Helena's attention, as always. Helena graciously took the kids downstairs for a while so that the adults could chat without interruption.

Claire and Ava got along beautifully last night. Claire was more herself due to her home setting, and Ava loved checking out Claire's toys. They interacted like never before, and it was adorable to see. Here are the girls sharing Claire's musical chair. Ava would sit on it and then pat her knees for Claire to sit down on her lap!
And a moment for Ava to enjoy the chair all to herself:

Here's Claire getting a great workout, pushing the much-bigger Ava on the car:

And then the girls took turns twirling each other around in the exersaucer:

And last but not least, the group photo that our travel-mates will enjoy:

Thanks for a great evening, everyone!

6 comments:

Shea said...

I love that final group photo. What happy families!! Wish there could be a few more families there with you (including ours!)...

The girls looked like they had lots of fun together. I like the photo of the 2 toddlers sharing the chair. I'm glad your mom was able to share in the evening too.

Beth said...

Yeah, couldn't wait to see the pics! Glad we got some good shots. It sure was nice to visit and the girls did so well together. That was so heartwarming to see them play and interact.

Kennedy and Jaida's mom said...

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, we want to be there too!!

Glad to hear the girls had such a great time together...and the adults too!

Rae said...

Wish we could have been there to join in the fun! The girls look like they had a ball together, isn't it great to be in the same city? We're so lucky to have Shea and Caia here, too.

Thanks for the group shot, I would have been very disappointed had we not seen all of you! (I guess that means next time we get together with Shea and Caia we'd better get a photo of all of us, huh?)

Kim said...

Love the pictures...
Looks like everyone had a GREAT time...
The girls are adorable..

Rae said...

Well, I popped in for another look at all the photos and I have to say, yet again, I can't believe the beautiful hair on those two precious heads!