We started with exchanging presents at our house on Wednesday night. 
Check out this present opening stance. 
Thursday night at Kyle's parents. Here is Uncle Kraig wrestling his nephews
Christmas Day at my parents and our pictures in front of their tree.
We borrow Franky's bed so Josie can reach the floor in her jump-up.
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She played with this empty bin for about 20 minutes.
'I caught one'
Caleb is pretty happy that Daddy is working so hard to cut that tree down.
Putting all of the ornaments on the same low branch.
Josie's first Thanksgiving meal: Pureed squash (again)
She seems pretty happy about it
Caleb suffering the side-effects of a big Turkey dinner
Josie gets into push-up position (and will hold this position) as a way of getting up to her knees and is already beginning to rock on her hands and knees.
Nudey-shots....part of every child's photo album.
Josie will be 5 months on Sunday. She can sort-of sit up...just long enough for me to take a picture.
Sorry about all of the mucus in this one--our whole family had a little cold.
Ok, in this one she's not sitting up, but I liked it anyhow. She really likes to go on her tummy, then get up on her knees.
This year, Caleb got to trick or treat in our new neighborhood with his cousins, Avery and Nathaniel. Josie and Naomi stayed back to hand out candy. When we first explained the concept of trick or treating to Caleb, he said "lets go right now." That was about 3 weeks ago so tonight was highly anticipated. 
Caleb in action
The Cousins (minus Josie who finally gave in to her afternoon nap). From left: Nathaniel (a lion), Naomi (lady bug), Caleb and Avery (Dalmatian)
Caleb is practicing his sports skills lately. It seems like all he wants to do is play soccer, baseball, football and golf.
Here are our 2 dogs--Caleb though he looked like "Franky boy"
Here is Josie with her cousin, Avery.
Watching the fort-making a safe distance away.
sometimes he is a bit too loud and scares her.
We went to pick apples on September 27 and ended up getting something like 68 pounds of apples. We made applesauce with a bunch of them and put it in the freezer, and each of us has had our fill of apples, apple pancakes, apple pie, and anything else you could do with apples the last couple of weeks. Caleb is getting pretty good at turning the crank on the peeler-slicer-corer machine.
Before you call social services on us, you should know that he insisted on hauling the wagon by himself. Maybe this is why apple picking went a bit slower this year. Or, maybe it was because we had to stop for Caleb to take a potty-break in the back of the Tribute. He ended up not going in the potty after all, but instead, on some rotten apples--a bit thrill in the world of 2-year-old boys.
