Day 98: New Year's Eve

Chinese food for New Year's Eve!

Day 97: Friends over for a visit

We shared our nanny today, just like in the old days.

Day 96: Great Falls

We decided to venture out to Virginia to visit Great Falls. Beautiful!

Day 95: No more scaffolding

The Washington Monument's scaffolding is almost gone.

Day 94: Still Christmas

Z is loving Christmas.

Fail

Darn it...first fail of the new blog!

Day 93: Merry Christmas

Christmas is really all about the kids, isn't it?

Day 92: Cookies for Santa

A and Z setting out cookies and milk for Santa.

Day 91: Little Z

A close-up of little Z.

Day 90: Holiday party

We decided to throw a little party, and we had a great time. One of our better decisions recently.

Day 89: The final touch

I finally broke down and got a star for the top of the tree.

Day 88: Girls' night out

Champagne flight at girls' night out.

Day 87: Train ride home

The last train ride of 2013 called for first class.

Day 86: Night out

A rare night out with work.

Day 85: Taking down the tree

The city is taking down a huge tree across the street.

Day 84: Drummer girl

Baby Z learning how to drum.

Day 83: Visit to Santa

The kids were very happy to meet Santa.

Day 82: Christmas wreath

I finally did my wreath!

Day 81: Holiday pageant

The three of us at A's school holiday pageant.

Day 80: Holiday shopping

I'm nearly done with my party and Christmas shopping...so close.

Day 79: Train

Day trip to New Haven.

Day 78: White House Christmas card

Happy holidays from the Obamas! (This was sent to a friend, not us, unfortunately.)

Day 77: Sleeping

Dead to the world, he was.

Day 76: Snowman

A's first snowman!

Day 75: Holiday party

We four trekked out to our friend's place for a little holiday party.

Day 74: Lunch with Ross

Our friend Ross was in town, so I met him for lunch at one of my favorite places.  Here is the waiter doing some pyrotechnics with Ross' drink.

Day 73: Waiting

Waiting for my car.

Day 72: Tree!

The tree is up!

Day 71: Meeting

A presentation at the Lawn Club.

Day 70: Bar

New Haven pizza!

Day 69: Nephew and daughter

My cousin's son was in town spending the holiday with a friend's family, so we brought him home for a quick visit before he had to head back to college.

Day 68: Sunset

Much of my birthday was spent sitting in the backseat of the car, wedged between two fussing children, while S drove us back towards DC.  I was quite happy to be with my little family.

Day 67: Dinner with friends

We went over to my aunt and uncle's friends' house for dinner.  Here the uncle is requesting I relinquish my iPhone.

Day 66: Thanksgiving 2013

The feast laid out by my aunt and uncle follows a familiar and comforting routine.

Day 65: Sleeping son

This little guy is very sweet when he's asleep.

Day 64: Mask

S and A dragged out a box of things we'd shipped from Chicago, and they found this.

Day 63: Work

My blank notebook belies the fact that I have a lot of work going on at the moment.

Day 62: Pepco to the rescue

Our power went out briefly, and we thought nothing of it.  But waking up at 3AM to a cold house because the heat wasn't on shocked us into realizing we didn't really have power.  Or at least, we didn't have all of the power.  One of the three lines that runs to our house (and a few of our neighbors' houses) was down.  The electic company fixed it, and soon we were warm again.

Day 61: Friends

A hugging our little friend E, who came by for a spell this morning.

Day 60: It's beginning to look a lot like

Christmas decorations are being prepared at the train station.

Day 59: Broadway

Caught a fabulous show on the Great White Way while in New York.

Day 58: On the move

She is thisclose to crawling!

Day 57: Tongue twister

My little girl turning her tongue upside down.

Day 56: Little sweetheart

My baby waking up.

Day 55: Mount Vernon

We spent a very cool day at Mount Vernon.  Can't wait to go back at Christmastime.

Day 54: Silliness

Brother and sister being silly.

Day 53: Breakfast in Boston

A lovely breakfast in Boston.

Day 52: Boston

A view of Boston from way up high.

Day 51: Happy birthday, Daddy!

The children were very excited to celebrate Daddy's birthday.

Day 50: Mosque

The mosque off Massachusetts Avenue.

Day 49: Deer family

We spotted a family of four deer while we were exiting the Beltway. Very cool to see!