Day 2 – my niece is a treat
December 20th, 2009
I was thinking of Joe’s awesome self-portrait with his nephew in the last 7 Days run when I took my self-portrait today with my niece. I had a hard time getting as good a shot as he did, but it was fun trying.
Ben, Angie and AK came over today for an early family Christmas celebration. We ate and opened presents and passed the mostly-awake baby around. I finally got to see her with her eyes open! She even smiled for me a few times. I didn’t get a picture of her smiling, but I do quite like this one:
She looks like she’s saying, “Eh? Whazzat?”
Annalie was so super-duper hyper-excited to open presents that she got a little overwhelmed a couple of times. Once she thought she’d run out of presents to open and was upset. Another time she exuberantly hugged my mom in thanks for a present she’d just opened, and when I said to her, “Hey, that was from me!” and we all laughed a bit, she fled the room in tears because she thought we were all laughing at her. Poor kid. All the anticipation and activity at Christmas makes me feel like crying sometimes too, and I’m 29 years older than she is. She calmed down quickly both times, though, and was fine.
My friend Rachel built this dollhouse and a bunch of little dollhouse furniture. Annalie was happy when she opened the dollhouse, thanked Rachel, and cheerfully said, “Maybe when we get home we can get some furniture for it!” Then she opened the box with the furniture and hollered, “FURNITURE!!! This looks like it’s gonna be the BEST CHRISTMAS EVER!”
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Aww, that picture of AK and Annalie is just precious!
Yeah, kids holding little kids, soooo cute.
And a friend who built Annalie a dollhouse and furniture?! That is soooooo cool!
Looks like you had a lovely time. Annalie sounds like my Luke. He gets overwhelmed too and is still supersensitive at 8.
Love the baby pictures. So sweet.
I love the picture of Annalie and AK< very cute. How are you going to get the dollhouse back home? Will it fit in your suitcase? :) I worry too much. Looks like you guys had a nice Christmas.
Your family is the cutest. EVER! Looks like a lovely holiday :)
Beautiful baby… Sounds like such a wonderful holiday so far!
I can totally identify with Annalie. I had some of those Christmases when I was young where people laughed at my reaction and I thought they were laughing at me. I’m the oldest grandkid on my mom’s side and the next closest is about 6 years younger than my brother, so for a long time we were like the two-person entertainment for everyone, not necessarily recognized by us!
Your brother and his partner look so happy and delighted, what a great family portrait, Aunt Bethany!
The last picture is wonderful. The whole Bethany gang :-) Minus Troy :-( Your niece is just precious. You did a great job with your self portrait. AK is a treat indeed.
Soooo cute, she’s beautiful – congrats you and the new parents. Ah, and what you didn’t see on my pic that you linked to was the 30 shots I took to get that one that I still wasn’t that pleased with…so is photography.
Oh look at your sweet neice. I just want to cuddle her and take lots of pictures of her. And look at Annalie so excited with her new dollhouse, what an amazing gift. Glad you had a nice first Christmas and saved a couple of treats for opening later.