Holiday Travels....

An overdo post.  It was really nice getting to see family on the east coast, but it was a long and tiring trip with our little toddler.  Between the flights, nasty stomach virus, snow and lots of driving, I'm not sure that we'll be venturing east again for some time...at least not in winter! :-)

Here's a bunch of photos from the trip!

Christmas Eve walk with Grandpa Tom.

 Tree

 Cheese

 Piano time with Grandpa Tom

 Sean and I both loved getting to spend so much quality time with CE. (So did she!)

 Grandma CeCe

 Christmas morning

 Sick little girl. 

 

Chillin' with the Bardens

 Snuggles with Aunt Lizzie

 Impossible to get a great picture of ALL of them.  Oh well...we tried :-)

 The Takacs, Maloney and Gorman's!

 Gonna be the best babysitter in upstate NY

 

 Can't wait for this to arrive in the mail.  CE's christmas gift from Aunt Cynsie!  VERY cool!

 Between the two storms we got about a foot while upstate.

 LOVE this picture

 

 Birthday twin love.

Me with the girls!

 

 CE stayed with the Takacs Family while Sean and I went into the city for New Years Eve. 

(Thank you for watching our little girl!!)

 

 

 Watching TV with Aidan.

 Not sure how we made it, but here we are at 4:45 AM after a night of Phish

and the Biscuits @ MSG. 

Empire State Bldg all fancified for the new year!

 

A Maloney Family Christmas!

Last night we took Carrie Ella to U-Village to meet Santa.  First we stopped at Specialty's for a sandwich dinner, then we headed over to get on line.  It was going to be an hour wait (out in the cold) so Sean took CE to the play area while I waited. 

It was getting closer and closer to her bedtime and she was just starting to show signs of tiring when we finally got inside to meet Santa.  She did pretty well.  There were nearly tears, but we jumped up and down and tried to make her smile.

This morning we celebrated our own Maloney Christmas, opening stockings and presents.   Carrie Ella got a lot of new books!

 Mammi made these AWESOME finger puppets!! 

 And these ones too!  Carrie Ella is sooooo lucky to have such a talented grandmother. 

 

Stopping for a quick cuddle with Mommy.

 

Sean scored the Beatles vinyl box set while I'm sporting a new kindle.  Spoiled rotten. Sean had been geeking out hard core all day, listening to the albums and reading about them in the really nice book that came with the set.

 

An adorable panda that Mammi sent me.  Its so pretty.  She does detail so well.  It can't be easy.

 Can't wait to put this adorable owl (also from Mammi) on top of our tree next year.

 Carrie Ella having a candy cane coffee cake for the first time! She was very tired and teething hard core, but enjoyed it none the less.

 Here's her Christmas present from us, a kitchen to play in!

We head to NY tomorrow.  Can't wait!  A little anxious about the flight, but I'm sure it'll be all good. 

Miss have it her way

Carrie Ella has really started to show a flare for the dramatic.  If she can't figure something out, or do or get something she wants,  she gets frustrated and SQUEEEEEAAAAALLLLS.  Wonder where she gets that from?

She's had chest congestion for the last week, it was just starting to get better and now she's got a runny nose.  I woke up feeling yicky too.  Right before we travel.  Sigh. 

In other news she got a new bottom tooth this week and I'm pretty sure that she's working on three more. May explain her sweet attitude :-)

Smile

In other news this weekend, our PEPS friends Todd, Kim & Emily came over for dinner.  The girls had fun pushing each other around, CE's new favorite pasttime. 

Sunday after breakfast Sean took CE out in her pink car to the park by our house.  It's been so rainy that we wanted to take advantage of the brief reprieve to get her some air and fun outside but brrrrrr it was cold!!  Seems like every week theres a new play toy in the park.  This week a castle and a work bench!

 

Playing in a box.

 

 Stuck in a box.

 

One more week of work and then we're on VACATION.  Looking forward to getting back to NY to see friends and family, although we will missing seeing my Mom and the Grossman fam.