Emily, my 13 yr old, is the baker in the family and although we haven't made time to bake from scratch yet this season, these have satisfied her need to get in the kitchen. I think she likes the independence of making these for us without help.

  This is a terrible phone photo but I knew if I moved, I'd wake her. Here's Lily napping by the tree. She loves big stuffed animals and often uses them like a pacifier to put herself to sleep. There's a hedgehog about the same size that Santa will...

  HAPPY DAY!  My complementary copies of the zoo and farm books I did for SoundPrints/Smithsonian arrived. I worked on these over a year ago and they are finally published!  It says at Amazon that they come out in January but it also says "in stock"...

  I love Charles Dicken's,  "A Christmas Carol". Went to see this recently and although I enjoyed it and its lush graphics, I found the characters were a bit "creepy".  But I'm sure I'll get myself a copy when it comes to DVD. I haven't seen it in...

  http://kleas.typepad.com/kleas/2009/11/glove-reindeer.html  How cute is this fun little project? (I'm sorry I can't make my links look cleaner. Ever since I swapped to my mac, it won't let me right click on links and copy/paste into the typepad...