Um…this face could ask Santa for ANYTHING!  This is my second year photographing Clara at Christmastime & it’s a joy each year.  This shot was captured as she was being bribed with some cookies to stay in one spot.  I just loved her little pouty-lipped expression!

Emma has been down, and continues to be under the weather.  However, she has fallen in love with the card game Monopoly Deal.  She’s watched us play it with family numerous times over the Thanksgiving holiday & asked me to teach her.  I did, thinking she might not quite get it.  I was wrong!  The kid totally gets it, and in fact beats me from time to time…and I’m even trying my hardest!  She’s shaping up to be a true Sroka with her competitive spirit!

Emma actually took this photo with my iPhone Instagram App.  Just wanted to share.  They realized they may just like cucumbers.  Brooke said that if they were also pickles, she probably did like them!

We have a bus rider!  Yeah Emma!  She has the identical haircut to the girl getting off in front of her, so that’s our Emma in the hot pink coat coming down the stairs.  She’s so excited about being a big kindergartener & riding the bus.  I’m one proud momma!