When the windchill is near -30°F at daycare pick-up, it’s stop- double scarf time
Clearly enthused by dad’s survival tactics
Dad’s birthday drone arrives unexpectedly early!
Just like the starfish educational exhibit at the aquarium, we use a one-finger touch when petting the drone
Dad managed to get the drone to fly, briefly.
Sometimes they just do the most random, cutest things…
Apparently you have to hold hands when requesting a picture with the most recent lego creation
The treats tonight were very, berry good-
Ella getting in on the water tube action
Sleeping Beauty
It’s a lion…
…holding a smaller lion.
The elusive Ellasaurus at play
The game when seeing dad at daycare- run away and hide in the pillows
A girl and her Max
Des putting the final touches on assembling his dinosaur using the drill and screwdriver
Mom and Eleanor cheesing at the daycare holiday party, which just happened to coincide with pajama day
Reading in the loft
Des got pajama day too, building and creating still the one constant
Des’ first crossword puzzle!
Getting ready for the traditional tour of holiday lights, car-friendly thermoses of hot chocolate in glove/mitten
Ella is ready!!! (for hot chocolate)
Arriving before the crowds descend, this really is the greatest few residential blocks in Omaha for those twinkling lights
Leaving the now bumper-to-bumper line, onward towards the next neighborhood
Baby and bottle and Eleanor
Mailing new years cards, or, playing with expensive stickers
The elusive Ellasaurus and the Dinosaur Scientist (yes he knows what a paleontologist is, but he prefers his alternate title), ready for another year’s Halloween parade
The cutest little pink-chucks-wearing dinosaur you ever did see
Parading
Ma’s handmade costume has a quality last appearance
What started as a joint venture slowly turned into a one-man con job on dad to complete a puzzle for Des’ viewing entertainment
Oasis Hummus – Good to the very last lick
“Can we do bath drops tonight, dad?”
Des and Ella learning that flying kites inside is big trouble
This year’s pieces for the original artwork gifts
Eleanor just doing her own thing, with a stack of reading materials
