Marcella had fun unwrapping presents - she would tear off a little bit at a time. she enjoyed her new baby doll. She carried it around in the little carrier - she would put it on her arm and walk - it was cute. don't know how to turn the picture but you get the idea!

We used Dann's stocking for Marcella since the one I was making didn't turn out nor get finished - I think I will have to start over. She enjoyed pulling things out of her stocking. Unwrapping a present!


It was heavy for her but she carried it over to mom so mom could open it for her.

David and Rosalee opening the presents that Kanien and Jon gave to them. Jon drew David's name and Kanien had Rosalee. Rosalee and David had Kanien and Jon! Nathan and Jason had each other.
Jon I believe is opening the gift card that he received to Barnes and Noble from David and Rosalee.
Marcella slept while we opened presents so when she woke up she had her stocking and presents to open and look at. The first present was the rocking chair. We moved the chair closer to mom and she looked at her stocking and what was in it. She had some nerds, a frog, potatoe head, coloring book and some other candy and things. Can't remember!

David and Rose came over around noon. They opened a few presents and looked in their Christmas stockings. Rose received the game scene it and David was happy with his ninja turtle that he had actually asked for! Jon and Kanien came over around 1:20 and they first went through their Christmas stockings to see what Santa had brought for them. all the guys got dart guns to have a dart gun fight with. Everyone received a gift card to the movies in their socks.

We spent the night at Kanien and Jon's home to watch Marcella when she woke up. It was fun to watch her. After that we came home. Jason and Nathan didn't want to wait so I let them look in their Christmas sock and open a few presents. Jason got the growing pains first season and Nathan got the original movie of the Ninja Turtles.
Both received (or all of them did) Hickory farms. Jason wasn't too thrilled but it was to Jason and Mom from Santa!
Nathan had me open the present he bought for me. It's a back massager and it sure feels good but i think I used it too much the first day because the next day my back was sore from where it was massaged.

Dave and Rose looking at their Christmas socks.

This is Jason with long black hair!!!!! Not - this is the hat that you sent him for his birthday with his snow goggles on - he plans to wear the hat when he goes snowboarding. but the hat does match his hair. he did get a haircut though and it looks nice. Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas we did other than the fact that Dann wasn't here with us. We read his message from the blog though and enjoyed that. Happy New Year to all!
Jason has the hat on that Kanien's friend Amie knitted for Kanien to give to Jason for his birthday and he loves it - he wears it all the time. Kanien does knit - it's just that she had several other projects going at the time that she wanted to finish for Christmas so Amie was kind enough to do it for her.
Nathan says he isn't getting a haircut until after snowboarding season!

this is the fake tree that I bought for $23.00 because our real one died 2 weeks before Christmas!

I don't know what was written in the previous post - looks like some code but that is not what I wrote - it is what was published though. When I don't update the blog for awhile I don't seem to remember even with the notes Jon left on how to blog very well. The first picture shows my finger that I now get to go and see an orthopedic surgeon tomorrow for (hopefully tomorrow) it's the same Dr. that Jason is seeing for his broken knuckle and he gets his cast off tomorrow. I called to see if the Dr. would see me also and they said to ask him when I'm there because he is really busy and so it's up to him. My finger looks pretty normal in the picture but it has a big red bump on it and I can't straighten it out all the way nor bend it all the way. I can't use it! The next picture I hope no one freaks out too badly but is what happens when I leave a child home unsupervised and he has a friend (namely Gavin Murray) who is dying his hair and happens to have extra and Jason just happens to be there and uses the extra dye. I told Nathan that he seems to want to do everything that nathan has done and follow in his footsteps. Needless to say I think he will be getting a haircut tomorrow!

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Marcella was scarred to touch Jaon's cast at first but then after she did she wanted to keep touching and hitting it. The ball in her mouth trick she leanred from her dad! She likes the horsy ride on Jason's leg. When I giver her a horsy ride she wants me to keep doing it over and over and my leg gets a good workout.

Marcella was having fun teasing Jason - she kept taking his hat off and then trying to put it on herself. She thought it was funny!@

NEWS FLASH - TERRY HAS FINALLY UPDATED HER BLOG. I know I can't believe it either. Jon told me several weeks ago how to move pictures and I didn't practice while it was still fresh in my mind so needless to say I forgot and it's not working when I try to follow his instructions - it's not that he gave bad instructions it's the person behind the instructions so needless to say they are out of order again. Oh well at least I get some pictures published every blue moon.
Jason got into a fight with some kid and punched him in the face - he broke his hand in the process - his knuckle was no longer showing. We took him to orthopedics on Wed. and they pushed his knuckle back into place and put a cast on for the next 4-6 weeks. The dr. asked him if he won and he said yes - the dr. said no you didn't look at your hand - he said in your mind you might have won but you didn't - neither one of you did. I wasn't too happy with him and I wasn't going to take him to the dr. I didn't even look at if at first. he came home and I told him I wasn't going to take him because everytime I do nothing is wrong plus I told him to suffer for fighting. Nathan said "mom I think that you better take him this time because his knuckle is gone - so I did.



Kanien and Jon went to the Symphony tonight with his dad and sister so I was privileged to watch Marcella and decided that I would take some pictures this time. She is trying to tickle Jason in the first picture. The next picture was the first one I took and told her to smile pretty for the camera so she came up close and smiled - tongue and all. Jason came in the door so she went to the gate to see him. anytime we are upstairs and she is hungry or I say do you want to go eat breakfast, lunch or dinner she runs to the gate and gets all excited to go downstairs and eat. She doesn't have any pants on in these pictures because after I changed her diaper she wouldn't let me put them back on. She would take them off as fast as I would get one foot in and shake her head no and then run away. So we left them off. I would pick her pants up several times throughout the evening and say lets put these on and she would laugh, shake her head no and run again. Then we have the picture that is out of order, another of Jason's cast.

Here is my Mom playing with Marcella. I've never seen her (my Mom) look so youthful. What a young senior citizen she is.

She like the upside-down bowling pins.

Awww....cuter than a pair of Pound Puppies!

I feel bad that this is the only time that I used my camera while everyone was here. I didn't take any pictures of the wedding. I just figured there would be a lot of pictures being taken. I wouldn't even have these but Kanien called just before mom and Ralph left and said take some pictures of grandma with Marcella. Everyone else had already left. I'll do better next time.