Surviving Winter

It has been a long winter thus far, just as I anticipated. The cold weather moved in and we have been spending most of our days at home. Other than our weekly treck to ballet music class, and doctor visits, it has been pretty quiet around here.

Leila is on the move, cruising the furniture and this week began to let go and stand on her own for a second or two. It won't be long before I'm chasing her around the house on two feet. She is still eating like no tomorrow and growing like a weed. She hit the 20 lb. mark at her monthly check up this week - Olivia was 17 months before she hit that mark.

Leila's new thing is jewelry and pocketbooks. She looks like a drunken old lady trying to manuever around with her dozen or so strands of beads around her neck and a blue butterfly purse on her arm. I tried to show her how to keep her purse on her shoulder but she prefers to carry it down on her forearm and hold her arm up in the air to keep it on. The beads are so long around her neck they get tangled in her feet when she crawls so we take them off now and then and let her start over. It is really funny to watch and quite unexpected. I thought for sure she would be rough and tumbly given her spicy personality and the characteristics she has shown us this far. Perhaps we'll have two girly girls.

We can't keep the makeup case away from Olivia. Her Nai Nai gave it to her for Christmas and she uses it daily. She is now applying makeup on me as well. When her daddy gets home from work its always a surprise to him to see who will be wearing what color eye shadow and lipstick. Most of the time I look like I was beaten up - with a little bit of blue and a little purple. Olivia loves to mix it up. Our future artist. We spend our days painting, stamping and of course the dredded Playdough comes out while Leila is napping.

Can't wait for Spring to break and get outside again. We signed Olivia up for school this week so we will be making the best of our free days as things will change in the fall.

Until next time....
Katie & Co.