Year-end holidays

December is always multiple madness month at our house. Lilly’s birthday, then Laura’s, then Christmas and New Year, then (today) Mary’s.

Here are some pics of all the stuff we crammed into the week between Christmas and New Year.

The Santa summary: Mary got the Kitchenaid mixer she’s been wanting. I got the pair of congas I’ve been dreaming of, plus a pair of bongos that I hadn’t even hinted about. Lilly got some cool clothes (picture) and a new trapeze-y thing to do acrobatic tricks on in the front room. (For her birthday she got a safety mat to go under the trapeze. Not perhaps as good as those bouncy nets that the grownup acrobats have, but it would be tricky to string up a net in the front room of our house.) Laura got both the iPod Nano and the guitar she had been wanting. Everybody was pretty gruntled, all in all.