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Ali Quote

"I'm not a rock, but I'm cool though." 

I had said "You rock!" after she read part of a book.

COLD!

You know it’s cold when the morning weather man is outside hammering nails into wood with a frozen banana!  Science at its best.  It was 20 below this morning – that’s Fahrenheit for those of you out of the states. 

This is the weather where you can take a pot of boiling water and throw it into the outside air and watch it turn to steam before any of it hits the ground.  Although Chris and I have done that before, I thought it wouldn’t be the safest experiment with the little ones.  Instead Ali and I bundled and went out on the back porch to blow some bubbles – they freeze and you can pick them up!  All Ali said was, “it’s hard with this scarf on my face”.  So I exposed her poor little face so she could blow some.  We were able to pick them up but it had warmed up a little (-16F) and so they were kind of saggy and cracked into pieces, but it was still pretty cool.  In this picture Ali is holding half a bubble.  I love weather. 

In case you are interested, the high today is 5 below.  We have all been inside for a few days, but it’s supposed to warm up by the weekend.

3 Steps

Zuzu took her first steps yesterday!  She of course had no idea what she was doing.  I was sitting on the floor and she was standing in front of me holding a book and leaning against me.  Without realizing it she leaned away from me, so I scooted back and she took a step, I scooted back again and she took another step, I scooted back again and she took a third step, but as soon as she realized what was happening she grabbed on and gave me this look, like “what in the world just happened”. 

She hasn’t taken any more steps since yesterday, but it’s only a matter of time.  She already loves to walk holding onto our fingers and sometimes will do it with just one hand.  If we try to get her to take steps though, she gets so excited and leans so far toward us that she pretty much just goes to the ground.  We’ll try to get some video as soon as we can.

Zuzu’s 1st Birthday Cake

As you can see, Zuzu had a good time with her Birthday cake.  She was pretty amazed by the whole thing.  She did a little playing, a little eating, a little offering to others, threw a little on the floor and in the end, the part of the cake she could reach was pretty much destroyed.