Day without the Kids

Yesterday was the Christmas party for 02 Las Madres group so we spent the afternoon making cookies. Gina was very excited about helping me make the cookies and of course Andrew wanted to help as well. As we were getting all the ingredients together, I realized we were short on peanut butter (essential for peanut butter cookies), the one thing I forgot to check on the day before when I went grocery shopping. So after a quick trip to the grocery store, we were back to making cookies. I think Andrew was mostly interested in licking the mixing spoons after we were done, but he did help some. Gina enjoyed measuring out the ingredients, cracking the eggs (one ended up on the counter) and turning on the mixer.

This year the party was at Kristi's house. Both Gina and Andrew had a lot of fun playing with all the new toys. Dylan was hanging out in his carseat most of the time. He was asleep when we arrived but after awhile, he woke up and was just looking around at everything going on. After a while I started to feel guilty leaving him in the carseat, so I carried him around for awhile, still relatively content. In contrast to Dylan, Noemi's little girl Katrina was very tired and cried a lot since she couldn't get to sleep. Noemi spent most of her time attending to Katrina, trying unsuccesfully to get her to go to sleep.

Today, both Gina and Andrew were at the Whistlestop all day. We didn't actually get there until 10:30am since Gina slept in until 9am. It was just as well, since I had a doctor's appt at 11am in Palo Alto. The rest of the day was spent hanging out at home, with Dylan sleeping and eating. Stephanie dropped off some 0-3 month size clothes since her son Nicholas is now at 11lbs. Dylan still fits into them, but probably for only a few more weeks. It looks like he is around 8.5lbs now which means he is gaining weight at a better rate.

Tonight we put Gina and Andrew to bed at the same time. Since it was new, it was much easier to put them to bed since they were excited about talking to each other once the lights were out. They were both asleep after about a half hour.

Tomorrow all three kids are at home. Hopefully we will be able to make it to the park so Gina and Andrew can run around.