Holiday fun with the cousins (Part 1)

If there were such a thing as falling in love with your cousin at the age of 3, these two would be in love. They are so happy together.



Watching the trains at FAO Schwartz.















Eating Birthday cake:

Merry Christmas!

I had the best intentions this year to send you a nice Christmas card. I chose this picture because it really encapsulates the year that we had. It would have made you laugh and had a nice personal note and a cool envelope and you could have stuck it on your refrigerator.

I hope you are not offended and do not stop sending us Christmas cards because we really love getting them.

Merry Christmas! We had a great year. Hope you all did too!

Harlem Christmas Party

Playing a game with all the kids.



Meeting Santa:



Note the look of sheer happiness on their faces:









Kian sits on Santa's lap and says: "Santa, I'm here now. In New York. Not in Africa. OK?"









Lucia is very curious.







Nope.



I am actually glad my girls have a healthy fear of strangers that want to hold them.

Cyra's Pre-school Christmas Pageant

The cast:







Cyra was the "star angel." It was a non-speaking part, but pretty pivotal for the plot.





Distracted on stage by her angel friend's wings.





A good-looking bunch of angels. If heaven has angels like this, sign me up.



The shepherds sleeping:



Cyra: enter stage left with the star (tongue sticking out):









The play falling apart when "snow" is introduced.



Santa comes and Cyra is mesmerized:





She doesn't want to leave the set. "Are you kidding me guys? We are just going to walk away from Santa? Do you realize what you're doing?"