"Santa came!" We waited until Nina was asleep on Christmas Eve to put anything under the tree, so she was quite surprised in the morning.
She opened all of her presents and pretty much all of ours as well.
The Loot.
Since we are all at home together through New Year's, it is great to have some fun new toys to play with!
Cheerleading cowgirl!Couple of fun Christmas activities. First, we visited the Christmas light & decoration display on Fulton Ave in Palo Alto, and then on Christmas Eve we saw a performance of the Nutcracker.
This one had a full sized Santa's sleigh next to the fireplace and was playing a tape of a reading of The Night Before Christmas. Nina sat quietly for "story time".
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Sitting through the performance wasn't too much of a problem for Nina (kudos to the SF ballet for keeping the whole thing including intermission under two hours!), but more of a problem was her incessant desire to ask questions the entire time ("What is happening?", What are they going to do now?"). The second half of the show she was gracefully waving her hands like the ballerinas.
She was very excited when Mirko presented her with her very own nutcracker after the performance.
Dinner after the show.Nina is very much in to dress up these days. I never know what she is going to be wearing when I pick her up from school ... flapper dress, kimono, you name it. It continues on at home ... "wedding dresses" and high heels (followed by ceremonies joining her and various dolls in matrimony), bathing suits (the living room becomes a beach, and heaven forbid that you should accidentally put something in the "water"), a pair of tights over the swim suit and she is a ballerina. All of this is, of course, accompanied by absolute non-stop narration of her imagined activities during which she requires your full undivided attention. She doesn't require too much interaction from her audience other than an occasional "Ok? Ok." Although for the wedding ceremonies, she does demand that one of us be the "talker" (officiant) so she can be the bride.
Here is a nice concoction from baby blankets.
Stunts with Sassafras in 0-3 month baby clothes.
Japanese places are always a hit. She can eat a mountain of sashimi, edamame, and miso soup.
She is also working on her chopstick skills.
