Happy New Year!  This is how we celebrated ringing in the new year...a few hours before the girls went to bed.  Sylvia loved the sparklers but would drop them before they burned out for fear of being burned.  We lit off some other louder fireworks and Vivian didn't like them much.  They were too loud and would say 'gaird' for scared or 'oud' for loud.  She held onto me while Benjamin was our pyrotechnician.  Every once in a while Sylvia would come running to me too.  It's been a great year.  2012 has a lot in store.