Modern Art

Have you ever walked through a museum of modern art and said to yourself, "A two year old could have drawn that"? Eliana this past week felt inspired to draw likenesses of her family members. Below is Papai--following the minimalistic school.

Emily is the larger red/orange circle below. Eliana is the brown squiggles below Emily's "eyes." Karina is also somewhere in there, she said.

Here's a more realistic picture of Karina. She is definetely not a newborn anymore but looking around a lot, making eye contact, and smiling.

She, like her sister, likes to put everything in her mouth. If you put a finger or knuckle in front of her, she'll lunge for it.

She is starting to transition from her squawking noises to more mainstream baby noises such as cooing. She's also starting to grab things more, so that she can put them into her mouth of course.

Karina doesn't like to be put down and ignored, although she tolerates this more than her sister did. But like most babies, Karina prefers to be where the action is. The only catch is that she has to put up with being held like a football while Daddy is vaccuuming the family room.

Karina still gets plenty of loving from Eliana. Karina loves watching her sister's antics and chuckles periodically for reasons known only to her.

On Thanksgiving, Eliana spent time with her cousins who drove down from Seattle. They made chocolate-covered peanut butter bon-bons together.

Eliana really looks up to her cousin Lena and copies everything Lena does. Here they are lickking the chocolate off of the utensils.

When Eliana found out that Lena was going to wear a fancy red dress for Thanksguving dinner, she also wanted to wear one.

Because we do not yet have a picture with the whole family together, we asked our 20-something niece Erica to take some portraits using her SLR. She took a lot of pictures, because our 2 year-old goofball decided to act silly for most of them. Here are the bloopers.

Luckily, we found one that is semi-decent.

Hope you had a good Thanksgiving!