Roger makes traditional gingerbread cookies.
Roger makes traditional gingerbread cookies.
Alan helps!
Gifts under the tree.
Christmas morning. We opened family presents and saved the stocking ritual for the next day.
Grandmommy and Granddaddy arrived that evening around 7pm.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care...
And the spirit of St. Nicholas certainly came.
Alan helps Glen with his stocking.
Lisa helps Alan.
Alan and Roger share the inflatable ball pit.
Roger got his own baby to take care of.
But sexism is still alive and well, as seen in these labels from the doll's packaging.
Lisa got a guitar, a more-or-less portable instrument, certainly more so than a piano or
timpanis.
Granddaddy serenades Alan, who was enthralled.
Alan also liked Grandmommy's pin.
Roger hurt his hand somehow on the day after Christmas. So we took him to the
emergency room for x-rays. There was no visible fracture, so they gave him a splint
and suggested that if Roger didn't feel better in a week, see his regular doctor.
The splint helped immediately. After 5 hours of just holding his hand and being
miserable, Roger started chatting with us on the way home from the hospital.
Sarah helped him put a Maisy sticker on the splint for decoration. While the hand
showed bruising later, all is well now.
Lisa really wanted her grandfather and her physics teacher, Mr. Carlyle, to meet.
Hubbell grandparents with their Cooper grandchildren.
Grandmommy asks Alan if he'd like to go home with her.
They check the suitcase to see if he'd fit.
There wasn't enough space, so Alan remains with us.