Saturday, March 8, 2014
Dental work
Miss Carmela has been to the dentist a couple of times, and she actually really likes it! It helps having a great kids' dentist in the neighborhood. It also helps having a Mama with a mouth full of fillings to serve as a cautionary tale for brushing teeth. Carmela wanted everyone to see how good she is at brushing.
February 2014
February brought us Valentine's Day and the Olympics. I'm not gonna lie to you, Valentine's Day itself was a little rough. Carmela was in a rotten mood for some reason, and got sent to bed without any of the homemade, heart-shaped pizza that Mama made. (She got a peanut butter sandwich, which she threw onto the floor of her bedroom. Yeah, it was that kind of evening.) But we made some heart cookies, and Carmela was excited to get a few Valentine's cards at school.
The Winter Olympics brought some great teachable moments for us. They included the usual moments of learning about teamwork, being a good sport, trying hard to become good at your sport, handling disappointment when you fall down or mess up, getting back up, and learning about other countries. They also included the very important lesson of sharing the TV, because Mama and Daddy want to watch something that was not intended for the 4-year-old set. Great learning was had all around.
Sometimes the last names of our Norwegian luge friends sound a little bit funny.
This is how Carmela looks when she watched ice dancing.
Cookies for Valentines Day!
Winter walk
This has been a pretty cold, rainy winter here, but thankfully not as cold as in other parts of the country. We have been able to get out for some walks in the neighborhood. One of our favorite walks is up to the donut shop. We are pretty excited, though, for spring. Obviously, we need to get outside and play sometimes.
Carmela is engineering some kind of entertaining obstacle course on a rainy day. Then we went for a walk.
It's been a long time
It has been almost a year since we have updated this blog. What a shame! It turns out that things get crazier the older your child gets, and it can be hard to find time to squeeze in the extras. Like writing for an uninterrupted 10 or 20 minutes. Add to that a new laptop and moving all of the photos to a firewire drive, plus job changes and crazy schedules for Daddy, and life has been kind of nuts for the Doctors.
But all is well! Carmela would like everyone to know that she's feeling great, she's playing, and she's running around. She literally just asked me to write that so everyone would know. This kid. I tell ya. She's going to be great in kindergarten, which brings us to a little announcement: Miss Carmela June is registered for kindergarten! We're not sure yet which elementary school she'll be attending, as the Seattle Public Schools has a complicated enrollment system, but it is exciting to know that she'll be starting this next milestone in the fall. In the meantime, she's powering through preschool, learning to resolve conflict, engaging in a wonderful imaginative life of princesses, and singing the theme song from Frozen over and over and over again. She's very close to learning to read, and enjoys doing her letter sounds "homework" at Kumon. Miss Carmela loves playing at the park (tag and chase, mostly), and she also loves watching Pixar movies at home with Mama and Daddy. She also loves playing board games, coloring, doing dot-to-dot and find-and-circle activities, and she's starting to figure out whether she enjoys working on puzzles.
Coming up, Carmela is very excited about Purim (she wants to be a mermaid ... again), and she and Mama are going to make hamentaschen cookies to snack on. And, of course, there's the Purim carnival, which is always super fun, because cotton candy!! I mean, making a grogger is lots of fun, but the cotton candy is the big ticket. After Purim comes St. Patrick's Day, which is also lots of fun! Mama and Ela loves to go to Seattle Center for the St. Patrick's Day festival, with Irish dancers and crafts and music. Hooray!
How about some pictures? Ok, coming up!
But all is well! Carmela would like everyone to know that she's feeling great, she's playing, and she's running around. She literally just asked me to write that so everyone would know. This kid. I tell ya. She's going to be great in kindergarten, which brings us to a little announcement: Miss Carmela June is registered for kindergarten! We're not sure yet which elementary school she'll be attending, as the Seattle Public Schools has a complicated enrollment system, but it is exciting to know that she'll be starting this next milestone in the fall. In the meantime, she's powering through preschool, learning to resolve conflict, engaging in a wonderful imaginative life of princesses, and singing the theme song from Frozen over and over and over again. She's very close to learning to read, and enjoys doing her letter sounds "homework" at Kumon. Miss Carmela loves playing at the park (tag and chase, mostly), and she also loves watching Pixar movies at home with Mama and Daddy. She also loves playing board games, coloring, doing dot-to-dot and find-and-circle activities, and she's starting to figure out whether she enjoys working on puzzles.
Coming up, Carmela is very excited about Purim (she wants to be a mermaid ... again), and she and Mama are going to make hamentaschen cookies to snack on. And, of course, there's the Purim carnival, which is always super fun, because cotton candy!! I mean, making a grogger is lots of fun, but the cotton candy is the big ticket. After Purim comes St. Patrick's Day, which is also lots of fun! Mama and Ela loves to go to Seattle Center for the St. Patrick's Day festival, with Irish dancers and crafts and music. Hooray!
How about some pictures? Ok, coming up!
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