Holidays

Finally, a new post. It's taken a while to put up our pictures and video from Christmas, but here they are.

The day after a big snowstorm blew through on the 19th, which also happened to hit the day Mimi arrived, Sylvie, Beau and I headed over to Joc's to play a little bit. Joc put the twins in their new snowsuits, and we headed outside. Bibi seemed instantly comfortable. It took a little time for Sylvie to warm up to the idea of playing in the snow. And, Iman, well, she tried to avoid touching the snow as much as she could. Hard to do when it's everywhere. Needless to say, she didn't last long outside. Sand, ocean water, and now snow, just don't do it for her.

Sylvie's one tough snow biker chick. Don't mess with me.

Bibi: aka the blue marshmallow.

Inside, the cousins had fun goofing around with each other.

A blog entry wouldn't be complete without a game of ring-around-the-rosie. Here they are, performing all by themselves. A first.

Sylvie decided to sit this round out. Bibi and Iman enjoyed themselves.

Jumping ahead to Christmas Eve. Here we are at Joc and Amine's for dinner and some present opening.

I could have dressed up like Santa with my belly.
Silliness.

More silliness.

What Iman was doing, I'm not sure. She stayed there like that for a good five minutes. Funny girl. Maybe she was trying to imitate her Baba's post-Thanksgiving dinner pose (see Thanksgiving post).

Here's Beau, doing his best to look angelic and, Amine, well, he just found out he was going to WWE Raw Live. He was stunned.


This is the only shot that I got where all four subjects had their eyes open. Unfortunately, the red-eye feature on our computer did a number on Beau's eyes.
The following day, everyone came over to our place for Christmas dinner. Here the kids are, modeling Sylvie's "Happy Birthday" banner.


I had to put this one up of Joc and Amine channeling Papere's infamous dance moves after dinner. We'll get video one day of The Man and His Dance.

The next set of pictures and video was taken the same day that we were over at Joc's for the snow fun.

Fun with PhotoBooth...

Bibi and Mimi--double take.

The Great Floating Bibi Head.

That's a new expression for Beau.