Cornelia with her jewels

[celticdragonfly]

Cornelia with her jewels. I'm so proud.

Maggie's wearing the new dress and hairbow and shoes that we got her on our recent shopping trip together.

Grandma Maggie sent Jamie's outfit.

I happen to think they look adorable. They've been having a good time in the outfits, too. They got lots of compliments this morning. Maggie had her Christmas pageant and was very well behaved.

Right now she's hungry and tired, and not wanting to take the dress off, and crying. Poor dear. I'm glad she likes the dress so much. And that way of doing her hair was so nice.

(For anyone who missed the allusion...)






And here's a shot of Jamie, post-nap and still not completely with it, with his Daddy.

Awww. Jamie's first tie.

Perhaps we should have made his Daddy get one out too.


I'm glad to have this shot, especially since so many of the pics that people have seen, and the ones that have gotten sent to family and friends, have generally been of Karl pre-beard

EDIT: We just got them out of their clothes. Jamie pulled off his tie looking slightly exasperated, and I was just telling Karl "Oh, he looks just like you when he's doing that," when then Jamie threw the tie on the floor, and I broke out laughing.

Comments

[jazz007.livejournal.com]

Ahhh! Cute attack! They really are adorable kids, but you already know that.

[curiousmay9.livejournal.com]

so very cute!

all wealth is biological...

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

Tick, tick, tick...

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Heh. I must be doing something right, then.

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

Everyone looks cute.

But shouldn't the title be "Cordelia with her jewels", or am I just seeing a Bujold reference where there is none?

DV

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

Ah, that's why I have the link above about the allusion.
http://www.ancientsites.com/aw/Families/Family/20
Excerpt:

The famed brothers Gracchi were sons of Tiberius senior (twice Consul and Censor) and Cornelia, patrician daughter of Publius Scipio Africanus, who was famous in her own right. She refused to remarry after Tiberius' death and devoted herself to her children, whom she educated and inspired with a sense of civic duty. When a wealthy patrician woman spoke of her jewels, Cornelia pointed to her two sons, saying, "These are my jewels." Cornelia thus became a legend in her own time noted for possessing the virtues of the ideal Roman matron.

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

Nice. And maybe I will learn to read, since I totally missed your note in the original post about the allusion. :)

DV