New Years

T got a baking set for Christmas and she wanted to "mezcla chocolate" so we made cupcakes. The bottom 2 pictures are from right before the Sugar Bowl in the fan play area. B is wearing a foam taco from Taco Bell, the sponsors, as a game prize for participating in the football obstacle course. He's standing in front of the armchair quarterback game. It was fun.

late Christmastime pictures

This is eating at my mom and dad's for dinner.
This is T and cousin A playing in the cribT and cousin G at Muggy and PawPaw's house
T opening some play food at home
B with his new DS game system and me with my new pots; T with her puzzles!

sleeping

Since we'd gotten back from Jordan in July I've had to ride around in the car for her nap. I did that for many months until around early December when she didn't want to nap any more. Now she'll take occasional naps after watching the aforementioned Toy Story or other video, or on the way to pick up B from school, which is at 3pm and kinda late for a nap. So on days when she doesn't nap I try to bathe her early and then get to sleep by 8, which occurs in my bed after watching Toy Story and/or Pooh and then maybe reading a couple books (these days she wants Herbie the Hippo and Cruzer the Crocodile in Spanish). But oftentimes, too, she just wants to fall asleep to football which is a good thing we have the NFL network! I try not to be lying down with her as she drifts off into slumberland and she does very well with just staying in bed and calling for me sometimes without getting out of it. After she sleeps, I put her in her crib--which is soon to be dismantled because she tries to climb out of it and I know another family that needs it-- and she stays in her bed all night sometimes but this week she's been waking at the 2-3AM hour which is when I bring her in bed with me/us.

Toy Story & conjunctions

For the past few weeks, she's been wanting to watch "Buzz & Woody" which we have in English and then purchased in Arabic. Nemo and Pooh have been on the back burner because she's all consumed with Buzz and Woody! She still asks for Dora and occasionally Nemo now and will want Pooh AFTER she watches Toy Story at night. She's a character.

I've noticed with her language that she's been using "by" and "and" and "so" recently...

We started again with playgroup, in the nice new big room, and we stayed much longer than our group time because of the big room.