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! :)

Fun Driving Moment

Zoe and Amelia and I were driving the other day. Zoe was screaming and wailing and Amelia was screaming over and over, "Change the channel, that hurts my ears!" I had been listening to NPR at a low volume but she always claims extreme ear pain when the talking radio is on. She prefers music. Maybe she has inherited more of mommies artistic side.

Anyway I thought about getting angry but instead I just started to smile and laugh. One of the nice parts about being a slightly older parent is that I already can see the day when I am driving alone listening to a podcast about something like the history of physics in Russia and there will be no one screaming and no one asking for the channel to be changed.

Side note: Right now Amelia is wailing away upstairs and has been for more than an hour. And Zoe is alternating between a high pitched moan and rubbing play doh into the carpet.

We're back! (We hope)

Well we're trying to get back in the blog swing of things for our faithful readers (all 6 of you). Here's some from the last few weeks...

Amelia decorated Grammie's Christmas tree. She had an entire system that involved putting all of the glass balls on the lower right section. She was very insistent about this and wouldn't let anyone else near it.

At our new house, Daddy got us a tree on Christmas Eve. Amelia was very concerned that it have a tree topper and so here she puts it up for us.

Wrapping is done - it doesn't look like that many presents but I swear it was :)

Amelia tries out the new scooter Santa brought her.

Peekaboo see ya later!

A couple of Christmas Day photos.

Zoe really enjoyed her second Christmas and Amelia said a lot of thank yous. She was very good last night and she was so wonderful this morning.

Love to all of you out there!