Cookies

We realized a bit late that we were about to forget to make cookies for Santa. Thank goodness for frozen shortbread dough made a few days earlier.
















Elliot thought the reindeer would enjoy some carrots.

Siblings

Maggie, let the record show that Elliot could not love you more.

Pirate ship

Boxes, toilet paper rolls, oat containers- these are the things crafts are made of in our house. Elliot fashioned this pirate ship out of a diaper box and attached felt and pipe cleaners and a flag.

MWC - 4 months

Height: 27.5 inches or 79.9 cm
Weight: 19lbs 13 oz or 9.0 kg
Head: or 17.7 inches or 45 cm

All off the charts. Per doc, same height as average 9 month old, same weight as average 10 month old baby.

No school Fridays

We headed to the park around the corner from our house today and brought a picnic and hot chocolate despite the cold. Maggie was bundled up in her carseat and Elliot pulled the wagon full of good stuff (including Maggie!) all the way to the park. Yay sun!

Cheer

Yesterday we got our tree, cranked up the holiday tunes (nothing says xmas to me like the Puppini Sisters and Vince Guaraldi) and decorated. The tree is almost twice the size of what we've bought in the past, hence the dark top 1/3rd.

Tarians

Maggie, Elliot and I were at the grocery store when E asked, "Mom, what's an eggatarian?" I told him I didn't know and asked if he knew. He said, "a person who only eats eggs!" Then he asked what an everythingatarian was.

He's been concocting words and working on his rhyming a lot lately. He's also liking sounding words out when the word is spoken or written.

Thanksgiving

Krishna, Sandra and Rohan flew in for a week at Thanksgiving and we had a fantastic time with the little ones. Rohan is wary of strangers and definitely prefers Mama and Dada over everyone else. It reminded me of Elliot's stranger danger phase and also how quickly these things change. At preschool, as I sign Elliot in, he takes off before I even get a kiss or a goodbye in. A good sign at his age, but I miss the snuggly baby phase of his. Maggie is definitely snuggly so it's a win win.

Walk down to Alki:

Reading with Rohan once he warmed up to us a bit (we were told and eventually learned that books are the best encouragement/bribe to get the boy to hang out with us):

Reading under the table:

Building forts: