Welcome Baby Smoer!

We have a new cousin!  Nathaniel Zeke joined us December 29th at 2:07am.  Our crew is pretty smitten.  We had our first official viewing today.  Nathaniel was very well behaved and slept through the entire visit.

Big sister Hanora, a pro, made the intros.

Everyone got a turn.

Roby was interested but declined his turn as he preferred not to have to feed the little guy.  Feeding appeared to be a rather involved thing and Roby preferred to be less "hands on."

I was there too, as were parents-on-deck Uncle Eric and Aunt Ellie.  I somehow missed a picture of the actual parents.  Total fail to be made up shortly.

This little guy has a pretty excited team.

Beach trip with the Tripps

We followed Christmas with our usual hike to Kehoe beach.  This year we went with our Tripp cousins Sachi, Brian, Norah, Harvey, Clyde and Gus as well as Heiko and Hanora.  

Dave and Eric played catch...

 while the cousins cast spells on each other in a giant Harry Potter inspired dune chase

 Eli hiked out with the big backpack, carrying his stomp rockets and the soccer ball.

 Sarah Jane took some pictures

 Roby took over backpack duties