We have had virtually no snow this winter but last week we had enough that the girls could do some sledding. They had a lot of fun together....

Amelia enjoys breaking in our new couch. It fits her perfectly!

Tough week for Zoë...

Our little Zoë Bear has had a tough week and a half... Last week her cold turned into croup - she wasn't sleeping more than 30 minutes in a row (that's fun) and was fussy (obviously)... she got steroids that helped the breathing but made her hyper at night so she continued to not sleep well. Then on Sunday she started to get a little better but then her cold seemed to get worse by Tuesday and she spent the rest of the week screaming. SCREAMING. We took her back to the doctor yesterday who gave us medicine but encouraged us to wait a day or two just to see if she improved. And she has! Finally. She was so sad and pitiful. I am hoping she finally sleeps tonight ... It's so good to see her happy and playing again...

Amelia laid out her spiderman blanket for her baby doll and then laid out Zoë's blanket for her, too. They watched one of their high quality tv shows and rested together...



Zoe took a brief break from lying down to sit in this box. She had fun for a few minutes...

And then she found the couch. She definitely takes after her mommy!

Julia Child x 2

For Christmas this year, my dad and his wife bought Amelia and Zoe an awesome play kitchen. They were so organized and had it shipped to us in early December... but then we moved 2 days before Christmas and were not up to assembling the thing that arrived in 2 boxes about 3 ft x 2 ft... So, after re-painting our living room and getting new couches, we were ready to do it... YOu can see that the girls love it. After initial fighting, they are playing well with it together and by themselves :)

Who assembled the oven/stove part? That's right - MOMMY. I decided to do it around 11pm after the Giants/Other team game... Tom was stunned (he was already snoring on the couch) and is no longer going to let me get out of assembly projects - darn it! :)

Do I have something on my face?

They're so cute...

Amelia lined up her pillow pets on the couch and sat with them for over a half hour and had an on-going conversation with them.

She then built herself a house with the box from the flat screen I bought Tom for Christmas... She called the thing on her left her chimney.

She sat inside this for quite a long time...

Zoë enjoys getting herself into all kinds of predicaments that involve danger. She climbs on tables - recently she found the outside edge of the stairs to climb...

...but then was all tuckered out from that activity. She fell asleep on the couch... doesn't she look so long!

Tiny Dancer...

Amelia is taking her first ever dance class. It's low key; it's 30 min long; it only lasts for 6 weeks... She LOVED it and can't wait to go back. I only got a few pictures, mostly because a stereotypical "dance mom" stood in the doorway the whole time and videotaped her kid. You can probably tell based on the outfits in these pictures whose mother was a "dance mom" and whose mother was not :)

Happy New Year!

We had our 2nd annual dance party on New Year's - Amelia has been working hard on her dance moves all year long :)

Amelia also enjoyed the noise makers I bought - shockingly they did not annoy us too much! (They've also already been packed away until next year!)

Zoë loves to give us kisses...

We gave Amelia sparkling juice and let her drink it in a champagne glass (at 7pm) to ring in the New Year. A fun night for all of us!