Holiday spirit

Matteo is in the tub with a pink comb and the water is foamy with soap. "Clean the 'snow', clean the 'snow'," he keeps telling the pink 'train'. Again and again my kids prove to me that they don't need a lot of material things. Food, a roof to sleep under and love. What else do kids really need?

I'm trying so hard to not go crazy with Christmas shopping. But it's hard! I end up planning to buy them a lot of toys (see their Amazon wish lists!) which I know I won't buy anyway because it's not like we have that much money to spare. It's the thought that a lot of gifts will make them happy. While they are happy with a pink comb in a soapy tub.

Crawling at 8 months

Just because I said on the last post that Sofia wasn't crawling just yet, she started crawling yesterday. It's getting harder and harder to secure the perimeter around her. Today she was after the broken tip of a green coloring pencil.

Go Sofia!

Quadros

A Sofia ainda não engatinha oficialmente, mas ela se movimenta tanto que parece que dá dois ou três  passos de adulto toda vez que a coloco no chão, indo de um ponto A a B com muita facilidade. Não engatinha, mas se locomove muito bem. É ginástica todo dia, várias vezes ao dia, como se estivesse fazendo push-ups. Deve ser para ficar em forma e brincar muito com o Matteo, sempre cheio de energia.

Recentemente o vovô ficou conosco alguns dias. A Sofia aproveitou para dormir no colo dele e o Matteo teve uma tarde e noite solos com o vovô. Aproveitaram bastante. O roteiro inclui aula de capoeira, Toys R Us e jantar japonês com o daddy em Manhattan.

No último domingo estivemos na PINTA Art Fair, onde a galeria da dinda do Matteo expôs. Acabei comprando duas aquarelas da artista Lucía Mancilla Prieto (http://luciamancillaprieto.blogspot.com) para o quarto da Sofia. Agora o gatinho Mumi e a menina "nenita" vivem também no quarto da nossa menina, junto com alguns passarinhos.

Books and food

It's been a few weeks that Matteo would rather read books on his own and/or to us when we put him in bed. It's too cute. He reads the stories (has most of them memorized--"Trains Go", "Cars and Trucks and Things that Go", "The Little Engine That Could") and asks us questions, making us participate in the story telling that he leads.

Meanwhile Sofia has developed a huge appetite. During the day instead of crying for breastmilk she cries for real food. Her favorites so far are lentils, black beans, strawberries. She hasn't really refused anything, from avocados to Greek yogurt to chicken.