playing in the snow with opa

january

some fun pictures from january...

this weeks menu...

i know it's been a while!  here is a FULL week of meals...

monday: cream of carrot soup with walnut pear salad

tuesday: cheesy scrambled eggs with roasted potatoes and asparagus

wednesday: blackened chicken salad with lime-cilantro dressing

thursday: tuna melts with tomato soup

friday: pancakes!

saturday: beef tacos

sunday: pizza (cheese or whatever is leftover for toppings)

yum!

attempt #2

we re-did christmas eve on the 29th.

christmas eve

here were the only ones well enough to go to the christmas eve service:  

we still had some chinese food...

...and opened a few presents.

cookie swap

perhaps zoe is too little to participate in a cookie swap...

christmas train!

(apparently i only took pictures of michelle & zoe.  i guess they were just the cutest ones there.)

christmas traditions

my favorite new christmas tradition: fondue and then watching elf.  we got laughing so hard...

my not favorite new christmas tradition: everyone having a stomach flu on christmas eve.  hopefully we won't repeat that one.  [no pictures of that]

occasionally she cries

i was taking all these super-cute pictures of zoe before christmas, when mathias came home from work with a really loud 'HELLO!!' it startled zoe and made her cry. so dominic took papa to time-out. he sat mathias down in his (dominic's) time-out spot and said,

'now listen. zoe is little. you have to be careful of her.' then he gave mathias a hug and kiss and told him he was done with time-out.

too cute & hilarious. my favorite part is the 'now listen.'

sweet zoe

always smiling!

birthday celebration #3

wow! i forgot to post pictures of dominic's party with friends! in summary: he loved it and we had fun.

and zoe hung out with gus

where is our snow?

everybody has snow but us. the most snow we had was waaaaaay back at american thanksgiving!

lego

dominic loves lego, perhaps too much.  especially if it has wheels.  this is the kind of truck he loves (made by an adult):

he's just at the age where he knows what he wants but can't quite build it, so it's frustrating.  but i've started taking some pictures of what he is able to build to show how his lego skills progress.   

this one is duplo, but still pretty good!

i stopped letting him take lego trucks to bed for this reason:

auntie melissa is the QUEEN of lego... she makes him these awesome houses... 

anyhow, i'll keep taking lego pictures and see if it shows his developing skills.