Molly at the princess party

Molly went to her friend Annie's princess party and had a great time dressing up, making the princess wand and tiara, and dancing to the princess video. It was a world of pink and purple!! Here is Molly in her outfit and then photos of the party.

Recent hike in the nature preserve

We enjoyed a nice snowy hike at the University nature preserve. It wasn't too cold, so the kids didn't have to bundle up a ton, but unfortunately we saw no nature, which might have been the first time we didn't see anything living there.

Caleb is 15 months

Caleb at 15 months, continuing the fine tradition of Clarks....eating!!!

New Year's Eve Day snow fun

Dave coaxing Caleb out into the deep, deep snow!














I think Caleb's feet never left the spot that Dave originally set him down on.












Mommy and Caleb = Happy and Sad








We got a decent amount of snow on the last day of 2007. Potter and Molly loved having some playtime, trying to build a snow slide, but Caleb wasn't so sure of this whole idea, even with the cool new snow boots that Santa brought him. He'll learn in time from the older kids how much fun it is to sneak up and pummel someone with a snowball or a shovel full of heavy wet snow.

Dave's birthday

This picture just about sums it up!

Christmas pictures and family

Grandpa and Caleb dancing in the kitchen, no doubt waiting for the sticky buns to finish cooking!














Grandpa and Caleb on the slide at the playground. It was so chilly that afternoon!

Dave with the winning Red Sox photo!!













Molly gets a new kitchen from Santa!!















The whole gang playing with their Christmas loot













Caleb in the box that Molly's kitchen came in, Santa left it in the basement just for him!













Potter is drowning in a sea of wrapping paper; we were all wiped out from opening!

Catching up from the last week!

Potter decorates his gingerbread house at school. I was able to go and help out the class with this project. It was so great to see them all putting as much candy as possible on every square inch of icing. Of course, Potter's was the best!!


We had quite a snowstorm last Thursday and then a bit more snow on Sunday. Potter spent a great deal of time working on his snowman. Eventually, he made an entire snowman family, but it was too dark by then to take a picture.


Molly was excited to get all dressed up for her Christmas party and sing-a-long at school. I just love that she wears all these dresses. It makes her look very grown up. But still my little girl of course.


Molly's preschool class at the sing-a-long. They did a great rendition of Rudolph, and then really got into it with Jingle Bells and they wrapped up with We Wish You a Merry Christmas. She had no problem putting on a show. She is quite the character!!

Molly's 3rd Birthday Party!!

Molly with her Dora the Explorer cake!!


Molly and her friends making 'Backpack'

Molly wearing her birthday crown!


We simply cannot believe that Molly is three years old now! She acts very grown up and was totally loving her Dora party with her friends! There was a mini Dora hunt for prizes for everyone down in the basement, lots of cake and snacks, and of course presents! She has definitely moved from playing with toddler toys of neutral gender to wanting very girly toys. That said, we now live in a world of Polly Pockets, play baby diapers and all things princess. She loves to wear her dresses and tights, with pretty shoes. But don't worry, she can still take on her two brothers!!

Cookie Exchange

My friend Wendy and I hosted our third annual Cookie Exchange on Saturday December 1st. We had a great time sampling many delicious cookies this year, getting a chance to visit with each other before the holidays get totally insane, and just hanging out. We made an exception this year and allowed a boy to attend. His name is Oscar and he was just 6 days old!! It was a difficult time voting for the best cookie, but this year Jam Thumbprints (with raspberry jam) won out over some other stiff competition, mainly the Jacob's Peppermint Balls and the Peppermint Bark Cookies. There was also Peppermint Biscotti, which made the exchange this year really have a pepperminty theme. There were also very popular Gingerbread Men (made by the mother of the 6 day old!) that went quickly from the sample plate. We had our usual one game; this year it was to smell six unidentified baking spices and guess what they were. It was a nice touch that Mother Nature decided to have a small snow of an inch or so early in the morning and keep the temperature around 22. It made it feel all the more like the Christmas season, and that isn't a bad thing, even though the weather outside was a bit frightful! This is always so much fun that now I am thinking I need to host a summer exchange, but I don't have the faintest idea what we would exchange? Anyone have any ideas? It isn't too soon to start planning!!


Group Photo
(Oscar is the cute guy in the front row!!!)



Lin, Oscar and Amy


Molly holding Oscar with Meg's help

All the cookies and prizes!!!!

Crazy mothers!

My friend Cathy and I decided spur of the moment to take our 5 kids to Applebee's a few days ago. They were incredibly well behaved and everyone had a great time. Here are a few of the happy crew.

Thanksgiving!!

Thanksgiving guests














Wendy, Caleb, Lin












Thanksgiving guests

Thanksgiving!!

Dave and Jeff
















Thanksgiving guests
















Laura, Alex, and Philip













Potter, Molly, Caleb, Alex















Pat and Caleb are chatting and eating crackers!

Craziness is coming!

We will be hosting our usual Thanksgiving dinner in a few days. We have many house guests coming to stay overnight as well as, currently, 30+ people for Thanksgiving dinner. Please check back, as I will be posting many pictures and captions of the upcoming events. It promises to be a wild ride this holiday week!! Our best wishes to everyone. We have so much to be thankful for this year, our friends and family at the top of the list.

This picture is a couple weeks late

I have meant to post this picture of Caleb and his two friends Laura Jane (left) and Eve (right) that was taken on Eve's first birthday at her party. It is funny to see them now, as compared to when they were little.

November 3, 2007










February 2007

Katri visits us from Finland

I am a little late in posting these pictures. We were fortunate to get a few days with our friend Katri, who moved from Binghamton to Finland this past July. We look forward to when she and the whole family can come over, next summer perhaps.









Katri, Potter, Molly

Molly in the hole

I was told that I should post this picture of Molly. She is standing where the ovens were, before the new ones were installed. It is very cute.

Pictures of the new appliances

Shiny, clean, functioning new dishwasher!!


















Beautiful, shiny, lovely, new double ovens!!

My new oven and dishwasher!

We had a new oven and dishwasher installed today. Oh boy, are they fabulous!!! I have to show them off to everyone. What a difference. At least we know at Thanksgiving that the oven will not stop working and we'll have sushi turkey or something gross like that. And, I can rely on my new dishwasher to get all the gunky dried gravy off of each and every plate!! Yippeee!!!








Old crappy dishwasher















Old crappy ovens

Halloween!

We had a great time trick or treating on Halloween. All of the kids dressed up as their favorite character and we collected what must be about 10 tons of candy! It was a perfect night, the weather was great and we'll be eating candy until Christmas for sure!