Karina

KJ is a tough girl. No doubt about it. She picks fights with her brother everyday. That is the bad side of it. The good thing though is that even under two years old I don't worry about her being bullied. Almost like I can just tell she will not put up with it. Jr though, I worry about him. He is a little more sensitive.

Anyway thinking of the nature vs nurture argument one must think of Karina. (Minus The 'anyway' that sounds like the being of a school paper- ack!) Karina loves to fix things. She is always playing with the toy screw driver. She also love dinosaurs and trucks and cars. At the same time she enjoys baby dolls, nail polish, accessories and girly stuff too. If she has a preference I'd almost say it is towards the boy stuff. I'm a nurture believer myself. Having small children makes me really believe it.

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Christmas season

We've been busy this month. Lots of fun stuff going on. In the first picture I found Rina in Grandma's living room with roll of wrapping paper. She had fun with that.

Picture two is Karina playing with her cousin at a tree decorating party we went to. They were sitting on an empty container that had held ornaments. They figured out if the both sat on the edge of it just so they could tip it over. Of course they then fell on the ground but that was the fun. The giggled madly over that for a while.

In the third and fourth picture we attempted Rice Krispie treat snow men. It was fun and tasty but didn't turn out just right. The M&Ms that were supposed to be the decorations didn't stick to the snowmen but the kids didn't care. Jr enjoyed making them but wouldn't taste them. Rina wanted to eat them but didn't care about the process. They compliment each other well.

The four of us (Sal, Jr, KJ and I) all went to pick out a Christmas tree. The kids loved it. All the trees hanging up reminded me of some back room of a butcher shop, only festive and fragrant! I had to stop Jr from karate chopping all the trees we walked by. It was pretty cute. KJ picked up on the karate chopping pretty quickly. Decorating it was fun too. Keeping Rina off of it is not.

And finally today we tried painting. Very frustrating to me. Karina is not really old enough to follow direction but both kids loved painting. I got washable paint so there's not too much damage.

Tomorrow we're making cookies and putting up the tree at Grandma April's and Grandpa Steve's house! I love when my kids get to have fun experiences!

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random update

These pictures were taken at Grandma Nancy's house last weekend. We were enjoying our Thanksgiving holiday break. Jr had never noticed the mirror in the hall.It's at a perfect height for him so we had a bit of fun playing in it making silly faces.

We also helped (hindered?) Grandma's cookie making process. I always think it will be fun for the kids to do things like that. But ts just me having dreams of giving them awesome childhood full of creativity and good experiences. Turns out that's just idealism. It ended up being somewhat disastrous. KJ eating all of the dough and poking it. Jr trying to cut the cookies but not doing a great job. In the end it probably would have been better for them to just eat the completed cookies and not be involved in the process.

Karina likes the floor registers at Grandma's. They are about a 12 x 12 square so they are very nice for standing on. KJ recently discovered them. She enjoys them very much. She has also been caught dropping snacks through the holes.

And the frog is still alive. For now.

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