More Holiday Fun

The girls had a great time with Valentine's Day and also enjoyed getting more family time on President's Day.  Nina wrote out all of her friend's names on her valentines for school, daycare, and did Pip's work for daycare too.  It's fun watching her become more comfortable with letters and writing.  She definitely enjoys it, along with working on art projects.

We've been to a few events around Phalen, Chelsea Heights, King of Kings, and Como.  The girls liked the baby shower at Como where they debuted the new baby orangutan, giraffe, snakes, and zebra.  Pip still loves babies.  She continues to make us laugh every day with her ridiculous antics and off-the-wall questions.

 

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Indoor Fun

Even with a fairly mild winter thus far, the lack of light keeps us inside more often than not.  The girls continue to color a lot and Nina enjoys her writing.  She has been interviewing people on their favorite things and then writes the responses with some help.  She also has been copying the months out of her calendar onto new paper.  Both girls enjoy playing with a variety of toys, cars, balls, ponies and whatnot and have spent a lot of time this weekend setting up the dollhouse and playing angry birds (the physical version).  Otherwise we try to get to the childrens' museum during non-peak times and the girls always have a blast there.

Winter's halftime

We're loving any January that regularly gets above 20.  We even went out to a park last night after dinner!  Nina wrote on her preschool work that she likes sledding.  Nina also sang at Church the other day; she was fairly shy.  She has also started dance class and prefers ballet to tap, because tap is too loud.  Pip has been pretty good at watching, but she sometimes needs to get away to Choo Choo Bobs to pass the time. 

 

Vivian checking her purse - "gotta check my cost money; I need money for the zoo, for ice cream, for the Target."  Apparently she hears that ice cream "costs money," that and we go to Target a lot.

Running around the skyways

 

Thank goodness - Pip sleeps now!

 

They put on their outfits - snowpants/mittens/backpack vs. summer pjs

Nina entertaining Pip while Pip is on timeout for hitting Nina

Half-Birthday Party!

The girls were very into half-birthdays this year and made sure to talk about them with their friends.  As has become an unexpected tradition, here's the video of their 2014 together.

For her day, Nina decided to get cupcakes (we hadn't had enough sweets at Christmas) and for Vivian's, we went to the Children's Museum and Cleveland Wok.  The girls had a great time going on a weekday night when no one else was there and they got to play with everything.

One and a half vs. Two and a half

Dad: "Okay, Miss Bossy Pants"   Pippy: "No, I'm Miss Bossy JAMMIES!"