Best of friends

We visited Mandy, Gracie & Alex today! Here are the girls, wearing the matching necklaces Miss Mandy bought them and rocking out to...

Oh, come on. You KNOW what they're singing. :)

It made me laugh that Kaycj introduced each song by saying who wrote it and who was performing it...then I realized she wasn't reading the liner notes, she just knows them by heart.



-- Posted from my iPhone

Merry Christmas from the Pharaons

Santa Photo

Noble did great and even talked to Santa (using Kayci as a translator from Noblese.)

Noble Run!

Noble's new favorite thing to do is run. And run. And run... This video captures that, as well as some of the communication skills that he's been practicing.

Five Years Ago...

Following Kristi's post a few days ago, I found this photo last night from almost exactly five years ago.

Twoothless!!!

Mailing List Cleanup

It's that time of year again.... cleanup time. In this case, though, it's the e-mail list for this here very blog.

Originally, the e-mail list was ported over from Noble's blog when he was born. Many people have been added, but there's the possibility that you may not want to receive e-mails anymore when we update iPharaon. If you wish to stop receiving e-mail notifications, please respond to this e-mail with "REMOVE" in the subject line.

That's it, and have a great day!

Big Man Stuff...Extended

Kristi said the photos need no explanation, but I'll explain anyway...

What was especially cute was that in the first photo I was polishing my shoes. Noble sat, watching intently as I brushed and buffed my shoes. Then he said "mine, mine!" and took the brush and shoe from me and mimicked the brushing motion I was making almost perfectly. He was so proud of himself.

Then he wanted to walk in my shoes, so he put them on the floor and put them on. Then he insisted (by pointing at me and then at my shoes) that I wear big man shoes, too. So I put on my big man shoes and we walked around being Big Men.

Big Man Stuff

No words necessary here. :)

Candy Land

Last night was the Annual Brenham Lighted Christmas Parade, which has become a fun family tradition. I'm the chairman of the Germania Christmas float decorating committee, so the parade is also a big deal for me personally. Anyway, this year's parade theme was "A Candy Lane Christmas" and Germania's float theme was "Candy Land." The float features a Lollipop Forest, Peppermint Woods, Gumdrops, blue and green-colored playing pieces and a gingerbread house that puffed sugar-cookie scented smoke into the air. This year's float was by far the best one we've done, and I was very proud of it.

I was also very, very happy that I got to ride on the float with Kristi and the kids for the first time this year. This was Noble's second year to ride and Kayci's fourth, and I really wanted to experience it with them. I'm glad I did. Riding on the float is a lot different that watching it from the side or even walking along side it.

Kayci is an old pro now, so she knew just to sit in her spot and wait for the parade to start. Noble... not so much. It was a bit of a challenge to keep him contained on the float for the hour we were sitting on the float before the parade started. He did really well for awhile, but then he would get interested in things such as taking off his mittens and hat or just wanting to get down. He was fascinated by the smoke coming out of the gingerbread house. I have to admit that I was, too. But once we started moving, he calmed down and looked at the people going by - and he even waved a little bit, too.

So if you couldn't make it to the parade this year, we want you to know that we missed you and hope you can make it next year. But we also wanted to share some of the photos: