Louis' and his sweet tooth are in gingerbread house heaven. 
Annabelle and cousin Will co-mingle.
More mingling.
Annabelle and her best pal, the sink-tub, enjoy a long wrinkly soak. 
Phoebe meets her mini-me, Lucy's toy pooch Coconut.
Mega and mini looking confused.
Louis and Lucy up to more goofy antics.
The goof troop with their buds, Bunny and Coconut.
San poses with her mini-me finger puppet.
as always, Louis and his trains are inseparable.
The three wise men struggle to stand up and save baby Jesus from being toted away by Louis' excavator.
Cool guy Louis talks on the phone to his buddy, Jonas, in LaCrosse.
Kisses (and germs) are exchanged under the tree. So churns the cycle of sibling love/hate and the fine seasonal line between being sick and well.... 
Congrats to the dashing young couple, Peter and Katy!
Annabelle and Louis welcome Noah LaFrance, their 2nd cousin! (Is that right? Melissa's cousin's baby.....)
The gals bundle up for a walk in the chilly snowy morning. Note the little chair up on the table in the background. Our once innocent and immobile baby has turned into a mega climber these days....tables, chairs, toilets, you name it -- vertical is her game. Driving her frazzled parents to put all the chairs away and leaving her poor brother to wander around saying "where can I sit?"
Chair-less, Louis marvels his latest masterpiece. Jason dusted off his Fisher-Price Construx toys from when he was a wee pup and showed Louis how to build like a champ. Here you have the winged hydro-mobile.
My, what a delicious looking turkey. I wonder where you could get one....maybe www.pastureperfectpoultry.org ??
Let's see how the drumstick holds up to San's tastetest.
"Mmm, now that's a good drummie."
After turkey festivities, Auntie San and Annabelle cajole about,
Louis buzzes the bus,
and Jason experiences modern living with help from the dishwasher. Here he shows us his soon-to-be patented "fish-tail" plate loading schemata.
Louis and Phoebe relax old style in front of the TV. Poor pup's eyesight isn't what it used to be....looks like she thinks the TV is on the floor.
All's well that ends well. Jason earns his son-in-law stripes by helping his Pop-in-law with a few septic system issues. Maybe that turkey was TOO good??
Louis admires his bunnies, riding snugly in his makeshift sling. This little boy is one good mini-Daddy to his plush buddies!
While big Daddy washes dishes in his sink, the lil' Daddy washes his own sinkful of trouble.
The happy little clam washes a couple of corks.
Sunny gal, 
and sunny pal.
The less teeth you have, the more banana you can fit in your mouth.
Big bro puffs, while little sis takes a finger frosting dip in Mama's b-day cake.
"Here, you take this cake. More frosting instead, please."
Here she is, looking coy and unsuspecting. Meanwhile, in her off-camera life, she scampers up chairs and tables, dances around and eventually tumbles down. She's also been sprouting 4 teeth and 1 molar this week, making for even more woes and whines. 
Sore teeth won't keep her away from her favorite book, and favorite reader, Daddy.
And here's the big brother, fathering his newest favorite pal: Fox. Here fox is "taking a bath." Good thing there isn't water involved in this crate-bath.
"Psst, can I borrow that bouquet for a minute?"
"At last, alone with my floral arrangement."
"If we smile real nice, maybe we can be the bridesmaids?" 
Oh fer cute, Mama and (tired) baby.
Happy at last roaming free in the hallway, away from the confines of the highchair and parents.
Annabelle tries on cousin Lucy's spooky Halloween specs.
Annabelle tells cousin William all about the trouble they will soon get into. "Yeah, see that toy you're holding? Well, when you get out of that seat and start walking we could throw it in toilet. Or we could cover it in peanut butter, roll it in dirt, and then try to eat it."
In the meantime, they remain cordial and share toys. Button that pajama suit up Will!
Cousin Lucy takes a break from swinging into the monster leaf pile.
Log rolling down the hill into the other monster leaf pile.
Annabelle tells Uncle Eric to get to work and make another pile! (This is right before she took a giant roll down the hill into those woods -- oops!)
Baby in pile.
Louis rakes everything into a pile, including his sis.
