Holiday Visit

We had a very fun pre-Christmas visit with Jenny, Naomi and Danielle this week. As usual, Danielle was most charming.


Naomi installed some holiday window decorations.
We did some stamping.
Naomi gave her Mom a brief physical exam. Her ear was ok.
We had a good time!

Sisters

Cookies

Mimi helped with doing a "cookie exchange" for the teachers and staff at Webb Elementary School. McKinney Fellowship Church has adopted this school, to provide support.They had around 2,000 cookies - enough for everyone on the staff to have at least two dozen.
We were a little surprised at how much variation there was - many different kinds.

Mimi also baked cookies for the Christmas Festival and her Bible study luncheon. She is cookied out.

Off-roader

Great Grandad Visits

Great Grandad came to visit for Thanksgiving weekend. Danielle came to see him.So did Naomi.
He played some Wii games. This is Billiards.
It was a beautiful day.
Thanks for coming, Great Grandpa!

The Danielle Show

Brothers

Danielle's 1 Week Birthday Party

We got to party with Danielle on her very first (and only) One Week Birthday! When we arrived, she was still working on her nap.

When she woke up, we got to see her Really Cute side!

Then it was lunchtime.

After lunch, it was time for the next nap.

Smitty Tour - Day 1 (And Only)

We returned from the Twohy Tour almost in time for the birth of Smitty - aka Danielle Jordan Smith. On our way home from Clemson on Tuesday, Jenny called to say she had been having contractions since during the night, and might be going to the hospital. She assured us we had time to get there, because she needed to work until noon and complete her annual review with her boss.

However, a couple of hours later, she called again, this time to say she was at the hospital, but the nurses said it would be five or six PM before she was ready - we would get there around 2:30, still time enough.

But someone forgot to tell the baby - Danielle Jordan was born at 1:57 PM. We missed it!

So, instead we unloaded at home, and then picked Naomi up at her day school. We all went to the hospital to see her new sister. Mimi got to hold her first. She's very pretty. (Danielle is, too.)

Naomi had fun raising and lowering her Mommy's bed.
Danielle can stick out her tongue.

We are very blessed!

Twohy's Pool

The results are in! The scores are settled!


The September pool for Christopher's birth statistics have been tallied, and the winners hereby notified.

	Actual	Closest Guess	Winner
Date	11/5	11/5	Jenny, Jessica, Juliet, Mark
Time	12:44 PM	11:53 & “afternoon”	Mimi, John, Naomi
Weught	7 lb 3 oz	7 lb 3 oz	Jeff
Length	19 ¼ in	19 & 19 ½ in	Mimi, Jenny, Jessica
Hair	Black	Black	Pa

Winners may collect their prizes by logging in to Amozan.com and entering their selection and credit card information.

Twohy Tour - Day 9 - Living

John enjoys holding his new little brother.Christopher enjoys being held.
John and his Daddy played the Cariboo game from Aunt Jessica.

Autumn Schizotreenia

There is a tree in South Carolina that couldn't decide what color to be this fall.
So it chose to be all of them.

Twohy Tour - Day 8 - He SLEEPS!!

This is a completely new phenomenon...Oh, and here's his newly decorated bedroom.
Neat Dino border all around the walls.

Twohy Tour - Day 6 - Coming Home!

In preparation for Christopher's homecoming, John and Mimi made a special arrangement of Dino Dominoes cards. "A-ok!"
John was happy to see Christopher, at last.

Someone said Christopher was acting hungry, so John brought him an apple.

John helped everyone remove their hospital bracelets, including Mommy...

Daddy...

and even Twohy.

John showed Twohy some of his "Cars" toys.

A little later, John got to hold his little brother for the first time.
And read a book with Mommy and Twohy. Things are getting back to normal.

Aren't they?

Twohy Tour - Day 5

Sleeping babies are so sweet!

Twohy Tour - Day 4- Twohy Gets A Name!

Twohy is now Christopher Anthony Penna.
Perfect name for a perfect baby!