December 2011

by admin ~ January 26, 2012

Each month seems to get more fun.

Gabe and Zara are talking more and more each day.

The kids continue to eat almost anything we put in front of them but they developed a bad habit of throwing their food onto the floor when they got mad about something. We tried explaining to them that we give them good food and it was “not nice” and “rude” to throw their meal on the floor and explained they made a “mess”. This had little impact so one day after they made a particularly large mess I made them pick the food up off of the floor before they could play. This pretty much cured Zara of all food throwing but Gabe could care less. He eagerly picks up the food he threw on the floor.

The kids have also started interacting with each other more. They spend a lot of time giggling at each other. Any time one does something silly or mischievous, the other quickly does exactly the same thing. Unfortunately, interacting has also meant a bit of biting, pushing, fighting over toys goetc. If they’re being mischievous we count to 3 then they go to “time out”. If they’re mean to each other we tell them it’s not nice to be mean to each other, we send them to timeout, then they have to say sorry and give each other a kiss when timeout is over. One of the first clear things they said was “not nice.” Zara usually waddled over to Gabe, leaned down and said “not nice.” It’s pretty hard not to laugh at them sometimes!

We flew to the east coast for the holidays to visit our family in PA. The kids did awesome on the flights and have become quite the little travelers! Zvonimir and I normally only get a few hours a day with the kids during the week so it was really fun to spend 10 whole days with them. They change so much so quickly. The kids loved being around family but Gabe was very shy at first. They got to see all kinds of animals including Clydesdale horses, parrots, cows, dogs and cats. They loved it but they were very excited to see Maggie when we had returned. She had been in boarding at our vets while we were gone and she was thrilled to be home. I’m not sure that she was so excited to hear the kids screaming but she was happy to be home.

We have 2 picture galleries this month.

December Seattle Pictures

View our December 2011 photos.

PA Visit pictures below:

View our 2011 holidays photos.