Our girl, Stretch

Toddler Wily is a bit of an explorer. For the first time ever, we had to gate off our Christmas tree. As you can see, next year, we'll have to think a little more creatively!

Mmm, tasty little gingerbread people

In true holiday tradition, the Wily Jeneric family baked a batch of gingerbread people (as an aside, it is challenging to find a simple cutter for a gingerbread man!). Our recipe came straight from Cook's Illustrated and is quite delicious.

Jeneric didn't want to help with making the dough, but she was ready and willing to help with the cutting out.






Toddler Wily just clowned around!


One little person lost his arms en route to the cookie sheet. Jeneric was nonplussed and explained that this one was just different and perhaps a little shorter than the rest.


The verdict? Outstanding! and, More please!

Let it snow

We had a dusting of snow last week and made the most of it with our friends.

I share, you share

Toddler Wily is sort of, kind of, not really getting the hang of sharing. At a recent play-date, Toddler Wily played side-by-side with S., although at times she questioned his shape-matching abilities.

This lack of post brought to you...

by an especially nasty virus. We are all on the mend but regrettably do not have the energy to put together a coherent post. Well, that's not true - Toddler Wily and Jeneric have plenty of energy (the youth! they bounce back so quickly!) but their spelling is atrocious.

Until Wednesday!

The Skaters' Waltz

The great thing about toddlers and Christmas is that they don't remember the year before. Toddler Jeneric's favorite Christmas decoration is exactly the same as Toddler Wily and Jeneric's (and Eric's, too): the music box with the skater.




Jeneric so loves the music box that she's working on her own interpretive dance.

Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

The tree has been up and lit for over a week and finally - finally! the Wily Jeneric family found time to decorate. As is tradition, the girls put their new ornaments on the tree first: a lion for Jeneric and an elephant for Toddler Wily.