Christmas 2009/クリスマス２００９年

2009 Christmas found the Kleins all together in Connecticut. My older brother, sister-in-law and two nephews live just a few minutes from my parents, but my younger brother and his wife and daughter live in Idaho and are only able to visit every other year for Christmas and this was just that such year...which made it an extra-special-exciting XMAS.

今年のクリスマスはデイブ側の家族全員勢揃いで一緒にお祝いする事が出来ました。デイブのお兄ちゃんの家族はリンダとスティーブの近所に住んでいるけど、遠くのアイダホに住んでいるデイブの弟の家族は遥々コネチカットまで来る事が出来てとてもスペシャルなクリスマス。

We sped up to my parent's place on Wednesday night and were very pleased with the lack of traffic on the road...on Christmas Eve we began our day with some fun-filled family sledding at a local park. Below are my brother Jim, sister-in-law Alyson and niece Lily.
デイブの家族はニューヨークから水曜日の夜到着：）渋滞無しの良いドライブ...そして次の朝のクリスマスイブに近所の公園にある坂まで雪滑りに早速行く事に。デイブの弟の家族、ジム、アリソン、とリリーです。

Here are my nephews Carter (on ground) and Grant (standing) who are both getting very good at having snowball fights.
甥っ子のカーター(地面に転がっている)とグラント(立っている)、雪合戦が得意な２人。

And a video of the NYC Kleins braving the hill.
そしてニューヨーククラインのそり滑りのビデオ。

Aunt Alyson has a tradition (or is starting one) of giving pajamas to the kids on Christmas Eve that they all wear to bed...Madison seemed to enjoy hers...
アリソン伯母さんからクリスマスの前の日に着て寝る用にパジャマを貰いました...マディソン気に入っているみたい...
Christmas morning found much excitement as we all tore into our stockings to begin...
クリスマスの朝はみんな興奮しながら靴下用のプレゼントから始めて...

Lily and Madison share one of Madison's new toys.
マディソンが貰ったおもちゃでいとこのリリーと一緒に遊んでいる様子。

Madison snacks on a different toy.
いろいろなおもちゃを味見しているマディソン。

As has been the pattern with any exciting event, Madison always finds time for a nap...
いつも通りどんなに楽しい事があってもお昼寝は欠かさないマディソン...

While snoozing Mommy secretly opened up most of Madison's presents...that should teach her not to sleep on Christmas...but we did save her big present of the year...she seemed happy about it :-)
マディソンがお昼寝中にほとんどマディソンのプレゼントを開けちゃったママですが、一番大きなプレゼントはちゃんと残しておいてあげました。うれしそうでしょ！？：）
But after being let down from the top of her present she did enjoy ripping a bit of the paper...
プレゼントから降りた後早速開けてみる事に...ワクワク...

Madison's big toy of the year was a jumperoo...we were very excited to put her in it, so after her Uncle Jim was kind enough to set it up, we did not take into account that she had not eaten in a while so it did not go so well...

マディソンが今年貰った大きなおもちゃはジャンパールーです...ジムおじちゃんが組み立ててくれた後早速試してみる事に...でもお腹が空いていたマディソンはご機嫌斜め...

After feeding, things went much better.
お腹がいっぱいになった後の結果。

Lastly, Anna was able to find the GAP commercial on-line that Madison loves to dance to...this was the third time in a row that we played it and she still seemed to enjoy it...
最後に、マディソンの大好きなギャップのCMをオンラインで見つける事が出来たのでここで紹介...マディソンこのCM大好きでいつも笑顔で踊り出すんだけどそれがとてもカワイイんです！これは３回目に撮ったビデオなんだけどまだ踊り足りないみたい...

Madison gives her approval to her very first Christmas!!
マディソンの初めてのクリスマス気に入ったみたい!!