Holiday pix, Part 3: Delaware

And before returning to our regularly scheduled duties (exams, dissertations, coloring), we were able to visit the other side of the family briefly in Delaware.

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By the twelfth day of Christmas, Edith was an expert on gift opening.

Delaware Santa Clauses were eager to enhance Edith's mobility, with this tricycle...

...and this wagon. Both were big hits.

(Meanwhile, North Carolina Santa Claus aimed to enhance Mom and Dad's repose, with a new mattress to replace the crater-pocked moon surface on which they'd been reclining for the last four years...hardly a Sea of Tranquility. The new mattress arrived last night, and at least one of us has been sleeping on it almost straight since then. Now there are definitely no more monkeys jumping on the bed--just standing beside it begging someone to get up and take them for a ride on the new wheels.)

The balmy weather continued, evidently confusing these thousands of geese on the marshes near Mom-mom and Pop-pop's house. They were holding a conference, we think: "Now look, you guys keep saying we need to fly further south, but I don't see what all the fuss is. It seems perfectly fine right here."

Before heading back to New Jersey, we showed Edith that there's an ocean--actually, the same ocean--at Mom-mom and Pop-pop's house, too.