Happy Chanukah

Chanukah coincide with Thanksgiving this year.  What a special treat to get to celebrate with the whole family.

Celebrating the first night at home.  Emma was very excited by the candles:

 Decorating Mimi's house with Papa:

 Here was present mountain this year (what lucky little girls Emma, Sarah & Kayla were):

 Scoping out the gifts:

 Lighting candles:

 Sarah got her own special Menorah; no flame needed:

 Opening presents (she was too lazy to give up her bottle, so just stuck iti n her mouth and went to town):

 And opening with daddy:

Thanks for the fun and all the gifts Mimi, Papa, Aunt Stephanie, Uncle Mike & Kayla!

Happy Thanksgiving

What a great Thanksgiving we spent with  the Wurtzel family.  Here is Emma learning the time honored tradition of stealing turkey and stuffing before it is carved:

 Aunt Stephanie was a very good teacher!

 The whole family at dinner!

 Here are the adorable, or ridiculous, turkey hats mommy made for all the girls:

 Kayla seemed keen to get it off as quickly as she could:

Just bizarre

Is this like a baby version of bread and water:

Honestly, she did this to herself!

Outdoor fun

Emma hasn't yet realized that raking leaves is a chore, not something fun!

Sarah's playful side

Sarah is really starting to love active play.  Here she is playing hide and seek with Emma:

And here she is throwing the ball (she did this for about 30 minutes straight, always from the same spot in the room, and always rolling her arms):

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Hop on Papa

The girls are clearly in a  Papa stage.

 And this is what Emma did when it was time for Papa to leave.  Sadly she seemed to have forgotten he could leave by the front door too:

Imagination

Emma's imagination has started to run wild.  She is constantly coming up with new, fun things to play.

Here she is in her alien/astronaut helmet, next to her space loving daddy, who is holding her rocket ship:

 Here she is with her canoe (the dog dish) and paddle.  She even let sister take a ride (though Sarah was very eager to bail out):

Here she is performing her new obsession, magic tricks:

Even Sarah is starting to use her imagination.  She loves to play doctor with Emma: