[Crazy] Christmas

Clem got his frist real illness two days before Xmas this year - a stomach bug.  He didn't get better until late Xmas night, so needless to say the holiday was a little hectic, since we still took him to NH in hopes of a speedy recovery.  I don't even have pictures from the big day, but I do have a few of him playing with cool new stuff and not barfing on it!

Here he is on Xmas day, sleeping off his stressful holiday:

And a few days before, we were walking in the park, and found that something was missing in the creche:

What's everyone looking at?  The camera angle is not the best to see that it is in fact an empty manger.  I tried to get Clem to lay in the middle and be adored by all, but he wouldn't.  Was it his innate sense of propriety?  The next day some soulful soul placed a much-loved and worn babydoll in the place where the divine cradle should have been.  The effect was creepy but no doubt heartfelt.  We got this walk in just in time for snow!  A few days later we kept the divinty theme going with Clems first snow angel: