More Christmas Pictures

I never got around to posting other pictures last night, so here are some now:

Samuel with his Ben 10 watch - probably his favorite present:



Becca with her tea set:



Samuel and his transformer:



Becca's rocking horse:



Becca with one of her favorite things of the morning - a box full of packing peanuts:

We hope Christmas was merry at your house!

Merry Christmas

We'll post some more pictures later today, but for now we wanted to share this little video of Becca with her rocking horse:

Methinks thou dost protest too much

(Okay, so I know the meaning of the quote in the title is slightly different than what the video shows below, but they both concern someone protesting. In Samuel's case, protesting a LOT.)

The deal: eat all of your dinner before the timer goes off or you will not get to watch a TV show with your father afterwards. Apparently this was a completely insane request.

Thinking of having a 5 year old? We here at the Norwood family are happy to provide this free public service birth control announcement:

Christmas program

Samuel had a Christmas program at preschool last week. His class dressed as shepherds, in costumes they painted themselves:



Here he is with his friend Caitlyn, who he actually likes a lot in real life, even though it looks otherwise in this picture:



His class sang 2 songs. I tried to videotape them, but the quality is not the best since our seats were so far in the back (who knew you needed to get to the preschool Christmas program hours in advance to get good seats? Not us, apparently.) Here's one of the songs. You won't be able to see which kid is Samuel (he's on the left somewhere), but you can at least hear what his class sang.

Was a more appropriate t-shirt ever made?

(I realize we have not posted anything on our blog in quite a while. More to come this week!)

A shout-out to her Italian ancestors

Happy Halloween

We had a lot of fun this Halloween carving pumpkins, choosing costumes, and going trick-or-treating. Here are some pictures of the kids:





Samuel decided to be Ironman, and Becca had 2 costumes this year because I happened to find a lobster costume at a garage sale this summer for 25 cents, and the Meg let us borrow a bee costume that Lilly wore when she was 1. The bee costume was much warmer, so she wore that out trick-or-treating. I couldn't resist taking pictures of her in the lobster costume, though:

Here are both kids ready to go trick-or-treating. Samuel, of course, loved walking around getting candy from people, and Becca seemed to have a great time looking at all of the costumes. She also loved whenever we went to a house with a dog (she LOVES animals.)