November happenings...

November has flown by, hasn't it?  Even though we've had some nice sunny days, it's still been chilly outside.  One of the indoor activities that Eliana likes to do is painting.  She rolls up her sleeves, puts her creative cap on, and goes at it!

Eliana also has homework assignments once a week from her pre-school.  Here, she is supposed to color a specific number of objects on the paper.  We were impressed that she is now mostly coloring within the lines.

The girls are always copying each other.  So Karina wanted to do an activity as well and enjoyed doing the paint-with-water book that used to be Eliana's. 

Another one of Eliana's favorite activities is dressing up in her "princess dresses."  Then she dons the accessories.  Look at the size of the rock on her ring!

We recently got a big pack of Skinny Cow ice cream sandwiches from Costco.  They are great!  And almost not unhealthy.  Eliana enjoys them too, but only the vanilla ones (not the cookies-n-cream ones.)  Eating them, however, can be a messy affair.

Not only does Karina copy her older sister a lot, Eliana also copies Karina quite a bit too.  Karina loves bananas, but Eliana has never been a big fan.  But it seems like after watching Karina chomp down on bananas with so much gusto, Eliana wants to like bananas.  Here she is grabbing one for herself.  She will often take a mini-nibble, then remember that she does NOT like them after all.

In the bathtub they copy each other too.  Karina likes chewing on the rubber toys and Eliana will follow.

After bath, Karina is usually in a better mood (she doesn't like having her hair washed.)  Here she is with a silly smile.  You can sort of see that she has her four front teeth on the top, and also four front teeth on the bottom.  What you don't see is that all four of her molars have now come in.  They've been growing in in fits and spurts during the past 3 months.  After 3 months of runny noses, fevers, and some sleepless nights, it seems like the teething is over for now.  She can now chomp down on any type of food and so the range of things she can eat is much bigger now.  She's already a voracious eater (she often eats more than her sister during mealtimes) and there's nothing stopping her now.

One of Karina's more favorite activities is pushing her shopping cart around the house and adding goods to it.  In this picture, she has her sister's Crocs and her little blankie amongst other things.

In this case, Karina's loading up on a bunch of Diet Coke and beer.  We happened to have people over and there was a lot of drinks on the ground.  It seemed like Karina was loading up to go off and have her own party.  (And you might have noticed that Eliana is wearing nothing but underwear and socks.  She often does this; says that she's "too hot" with clothes on.  Because of this, we sometimes call her Mowgli, like the character in the Jungle Book.)

Karina is obviously watching everything we do because every once in a while, she will surprise us with something.  In this case, she found a kiddie sized rolling pin and started rolling away on her imaginary dough.

Or she will talk away with an imaginary person on her telephone (which in this case happens to be a remote control--but close enough, right?)

And lastly, Karina has learned the Ring Around the Rosie song--or at least the timing of when you do the certin actions or motions.  As long as Eliana gets the singing going, Karina can follow along!

Thanks for reading, hope you also had a good November!