Merry Christmas!

From all the crew down here, a merry Christmas!

Brother Nils is here!

Our happy clique went to the hospital today to pay young Nils a first visit. Oh, the anticipation!

We tiptoed into the room and....

Welcome to the family, little fella

Back home

A very pleasant summer evening at home. Enjoy

Ella baby no more

This is it. Ella sleeps in a big girl's bed.

And she's proud of it. Ostentatiously so, in fact.

I am proud of her, too.

Nighty night, little sis!

XMas party!

It's that time of year again. Same place, same crowd (with a few new arrivals), same awesome playgound.

The bearded guy isn't getting better I'm afraid. He sure is as intimidating as last year!

This was Ella's first proper encounter with the bearded dude. Rightly apprehensive. It paid off to be courageous however. I got a beautiful Kaercher high pressure cleaner, and Ella got an industrial-size Play Doh set (which she's probably half-eaten by now).

Here's one of the newcomers this year, young Eva

Here's Eva's proud Dad, Jules, and Natalie, proud mother of another Ella

And this is Jack, Jules' son, showing off his new-found taste for undies. Good lad.

All in all, and awesome day. Put me down for next year.