Mmm avocado!

Boy this kid loves to eat! She hasn't rejected anything yet. She is even getting good at picking up slippery things like avocado. Isn't she adorable?!

Amelia Bedelia moment

Have you ever read the Amelia Bedelia books? We have been reading them lately. They are all about the confusion that comes from sayings that are not meant to be taken literally. "Amelia Bedelia draw the drapes". So she sits down with a pad and paper and sketches them instead of closing them. Well we had one of those moments today. I looked at Cecilia and said "boy, you did a number on your hair. We will need to fix it before your play date". She goes "I want to see!" And runs into the bathroom to look in the mirror. She comes back disappointed and confused and says "I don't see any numbers. Where are they?" I laughed so hard, once I realized what I had said.

Happy Valentine's day!

Vivian has been doing this adorable nose scrunch when she smiles lately. And she started babbling yesterday. It is the cutest thing. It's all I can do to keep myself from gobbling her up!

Update

It is time for an update!  We are all doing well.

Shaun had a huge event last week that I think he is still recovering from.  He put on a huge 3 day event for 150 people in conjunction with Sundance for the Entrepreneurs Organization he is a member of.  The Utah chapter invited 150 other EO members from around the world to come and enjoy Sundance.  Shaun organized everything including the film screenings, transportation, food, housing, speakers and fun activities (an Iron Chef dinner, skiing with Olympians, parties on main street Park City and more!) It sounded like a huge success and while Shaun enjoyed it I think he is happy it is over.



Cecilia is doing well.  We started a "movie-earning chart" this week.  As she cleans, feeds herself, tries a new food etc. she earns a sticker.  Three stickers means she gets to watch a movie.  I was getting very tired of her continually asking for a movie and this is the solution we came up with.  Hopefully this will be a good solution, if we can stick with it.  We went to a store yesterday and she pestered me until I bought "something" for her.  This was the first time this has happened like this and I was wishing for the good old days when I could just say "That's not for us" and get away with it.  Time I came up with a more grownup response.  She is almost 4 already.

Vivian is doing really well too.  She loves her mama and her mama loves her.  She has a particular whine for me when I walk in the room that says she wants me to pick her up.  It is still endearing, though I'm sure it will get old soon.  She has been sitting up since right before Christmas and last week started picking up food and getting it into her mouth.  She loves feeding herself.  She loves food.  She can't wait until she can eat real people food like the rest of us.  I'm really hoping feeding Vivian foods Shaun and I eat will get Cecilia to try them too.  I can only hope.  Anyone have any advice on how best to approach this?

Nothing new with me.  Stomach flu last week for the second time this season but it wasn't nearly as bad as last time.  Hopefully we can keep the awful flu that is going around out of our house.  I'll feel it a miracle if we do.

I forgot to mention we recently went to Cancun as a family.  It was so much fun and the only reason to come home was so we could sleep in our own beds.  Sleeping in the same room was a challenge, especially when the girls go to bed so early.  The first part of the trip we spent on an island that you could drive golf carts around on.  It was so much fun and I think I could really get used to driving a golf cart all the time.  We will definitely have to go back someday so I can drive the cart more.  The weather was also so nice and hard to come back to the freezing cold and snow here.  Of which we have a ton.

Playing in the pool on Isla Mujeres

Playing in the fine, soft white sand.  Cecilia felt it was so nice, she could swim in it.

Standing in our shared driveway after the last storm a few days ago.