christmas!

we had a great christmas weekend in ladner with the whole bandstra clan. noah had lots of fun hanging out with cousin kate, eating ribbons and crinkling wrapping paper. we tried to get him to emulate the baby jesus--asleep on the hay, no crying he makes, etc... but noah is no baby jesus. he wanted to party!


why reach in from the outside?


uncle colin and aunt nic, pajamafied with the christmas babies


chillin' in his new turtle suit, handmade by grandma bev


a blurry pic of me in my birthday shirt from aaron


he spent some downtime eating his new dan zanes book/cd from the wassells (why is he so sad?)


more packaging bliss! this package from terry had awesome shredded ribbons for playing with


and eating!

and finally, series with santa penguin hat from grandpa peabody and debbie: