Sad, Happy Soon

When you're throwing a tantrum sometimes I tell you "I know you're sad, but you'll be happy soon." You've started repeating that. Sometimes when you're crying you'll take a big gulp of air and say "sad, happy soon!" Or when you see someone on TV that is sad, or one of your friends is crying, you'll say "sad, happy soon!"

Crazy Sleeper

You get turned around funny ways in your bed sometimes.  

Gingerbread Houses

Our friend Emily has a really fun tradition of making AMAZING gingerbread houses every year.  You were old enough to understand how to put candies on the house (at least until you realized how delicious the candies are).  

You focused on making the roof:

Our amazing friends, Christen, Emily, and Michelle:

You posing with our creation:

Funny Things Dad Sees and Hears You Do

Paige,

Every other week your mom works at the farmer's market in Falls Church. Because of that, you and I spend our Saturdays doing the good stuff:

- we go for a walk after breakfast

- we ride the bus

- we eat at Chipotle

- we go to Barnes and Noble (where I used to work) to visit friends and look at books

- we usually run one more errand and then pick up mom from work

- you then take a nap

What's most fun about those days is watching how much you grow from week to week. At first you seemed most interested in riding in the stroller and would fall asleep going over the bumps and cracks on the way to the farmer's market. Now you get most excited when you know we're going to get on the bus, where you stand up on your seat and introduce yourself to other passengers and look out the window.

Since you can talk much more now, you have some interesting things to share. Take, for example, a recent monologue, given when you were supposed to be in bed taking a nap:

daddy toot

paige toot

[every]body toot

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

body toot

Abby book

Henry house fun

Finger stuck

Mommy!

mommy stuck!

oh no! oh no!

*Mom goes in to check on her -- she's not in bed, her finger isn't stuck in anything*

Poop! *checks diapers, no poop*

Purple dog! *gets purple dog, Mom puts her back to bed*

sounds of purple dog

(30 minutes later)

sounds of purple dog stop

daddy, mommy, paige, mommy, daddy, mommy, paige, friends

two doggies, two doggies, two doggies, lucky!

two doggies

Love,

Dad

Turkey in the Oven

For Thanksgiving I made a turkey and you were really excited to see it in the oven.  You kept going back quite frequently throughout the day to see the turkey in the oven.  

Zonked Out

Checking out Baby Lily

One day our friends Alex and Lily came over for a little bit.  You liked to get down on the floor and look Lily in the face.