Holiday party at Bell's preschool

Exchanging gifts


and singing

Nutcracker at Bell's ballet school

With Sugar Plum Fairy

and the Russian Dancer

See you next year!

Solving puzzles!

This one took 2.5 hours

Celebrating the hard-won success with a drink!

Bell is a natural at Rombix Jr.


Celebrating without a drink

Hanging out

Making concoctions

and pies

At Grandma's office

Check out our YouTube favorites

Although we primarily use YouTube for watching Peep in the Big Wide World episodes, occasionally we stumble on something we find very funny.

More pics from Spain

Jet-lagged: on arrival, on the subway from the airport to Madrid,

and at a tapas bar run by Javier Bardem's family in Chueca.


Madrid has unique street entertainers



Chasing bubbles at Parque del Retiro

City viewed from above, on the Teleferico


On Via de Pintor Rosales

Peter Pan, T-Rex, and Monkey

went trick-or-treating

Snow in our backyard

Slide art

Washington International Horse show

Lately, Bell's been into horses

Artists at work

Some nourished by the Great Duke of Alba

B's pre-K buddies