We went to a local nursery to get some Christmas greenery on 12/9 (wreath, garland) but decided at the last minute to get a “tabletop” tree.
This pic shows how close we are to Blaine’s preschool – the entrance is that door you can see across the street.
This last one was taken to document Sarah’s love of tomatoes.
Here are some of the Christmas card photo attempts.
And the one we picked!
We took a morning outing on 12/8 to check out our town beach, roughly a mile away from our house. It was all locked up but we enjoyed the view.
We checked out the Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia during our visit, and Aunt Jane came with us. The kids loved this vehicle room — Blaine did not want to leave the driver’s seat of this bus.
The highlight of the visit was the ride on this carousel – Blaine’s first time!
He loved it so much he wanted a second ride, so Aunt Jane talked the attendant into letting us stay on for another go around!
Both kids also loved this boat in the nursery rhymes section.
In the grocery section Blaine decided to put his green peppers into the bread oven.
Here are a few extra photos from our time in PA:
Blaine’s Thanksgiving “feast” at preschool.
We made this turkey centerpiece while Sarah was napping one day.
We ended up in PA for Thanksgiving this year, due to Doc’s declining health. Here we are for Thanksgiving dinner, grateful to be surrounded by family (Aunt Liz, Moira, Aunt Molly, Clare, Uncle Hank, Mom-Mom, Sarah, Mommy, Daddy, and Aunt Jean. Not pictured were Uncle Tim, Aunt Jane, and Uncle Peter). 
A cold day at the Narberth playground:
I believe I took this picture to commemorate the fact that Sarah really started walking this week. She took her first steps on Monday, the 23rd (I remember because we had a friend over for dinner and I was excited to share the news). By Thanksgiving she was taking more cautious steps in Wynnewood.
On November 28, we said goodbye to Doc after his long battle with cancer. I’m so grateful that Blaine and Sarah got to meet him and experience his love, humor, and strength; I only wish they’d had more time with him. They might not remember much of their time with Doc, but we’ll be sure to tell them stories to keep his memory alive.
http://www.mcconaghyfuneralhome.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=3409943&fh_id=10470
Blaine’s first day of preschool:
At our neighborhood playground there is a fire truck play structure with two steering wheels! What could be better?
Happy birthday sign for Uncle Tim!
Uncle Jim found this awesome toy vacuum cleaner for Blaine.
Making waffles in our fancy new kitchen.
Making a birthday sign for Doc.
The magical day a backhoe parked in front of our house.
Testing the cookies we made to take with us on our Thanksgiving travels.
We made a quick trip down to PA on the 12th to visit my Dad in the hospital. Here are a few pics of the kids hanging out with Mom-mom and the rest of the Mahoney crew at Ingeborg Road.
We arrived in NY early on 11/11 and headed straight for our new home in Larchmont, NY. I’d only seen pictures, so I am happy to report the the house more than lived up to my expectations.
View from the family room/kitchen through the living room.
Our first dinner in our new home.
Luckily, our new king mattress arrived on schedule so we had a comfy place to sleep after a long couple of days.
Our last day in Seattle was November 10, so here are all the photos I took leading up to the big move. Sarah with her new doll from Gram:
Sarah was really into pushing Blaine around on the motorcycle:
Goodbye, Angelica.
Goodbye, Mutual Fish. We’ll miss you, uni.
We squeezed in Sarah’s first visit to the dentist.
Blaine’s last Little Gym class with his friend Lucy.
A last meal out with our PEPS group.
On our packing day on 11/9, the movers accidentally packed up Sarah’s white noise machine. So I finally had an excuse to try out Amazon Prime Now, which worked great. I had a replacement white noise machine in hand in no time.
Last dinner at home, surrounded by boxes.
The next day, 11/10, the movers were back to load everything onto the truck. Here’s Sarah in the empty house.
Daddy arrived back mid-day after a rough roundtrip to NY to close on the new house. We had a final lunch at Volunteer Park Cafe to gear up for our red-eye back to NY that night.
Goodbye, Seattle! We’ll miss you.
(Sorry that the updates to the blog have been so delayed! It’s now January and I’m just getting around to Halloween.)
Guess what Blaine wanted to be for Halloween? Here he is test driving his costume.
Sarah helped me hollow out the pumpkins during the day.
And Blaine helped carve them!
The finished pumpkins. The one on the left is our “fire fighting” pumpkin featuring a fire hydrant, hose, and flame.
We decorated the house one last time (right after accepting an offer!).
Blaine’s friend April and her family came over to go trick-or-treating with us.
Andrew manned the door (468?) while the rest of us made the rounds of the neighborhood. Here are some pics I took while out and about.
