Presents

We have had a week of presents! My mom's return from India meant a wonderful assortment of bracelets, Gma sent two boxes from England and our friends gave K a beautiful meow meow coat - you can imagine how happy she was to have a meow meow coat. Pictures of it are in the post with Tay and K's pics.

K received her Christmas box (late due to a post office issue) from Gma this morning and was so excited to open all her presents which included books, a teddy bear, and tambourine. Unfortunately we need a new camera and the photos didn't come out. She loved her teddy bear and told him he had to go to school with her... So he is off working on vowels and learning to recognize his name today... He will even get to eat K's favorite part of the lunch at school - sopa!

We have decided to take K back to London and Paris for a couple weeks in mid March. I was hoping to take advantage of the no airfare for kids under two one more time with a quick trip to Hawaii before her Feb bday but our schedules didn't permit it. K will be very excited to spend some time with Grandma (as she can come in and meet us in London) before Gma heads back to the States. Gma's return to the States will make K very happy as she will get to see her more frequently. She has missed her and sometimes goes in to our guest bedroom and tells me that's where Grandma sleeps. Last week when we met a girl named Lilly (we were beyond excited and showed her our lilly boots) when we noticed she had on tennis shoes. The dad said they were lilly tennis shoes, but K just looked at them and said no they were grandma shoes. Hard to believe since the grandmas have more shoes than K and I combined.

Yesterday she received another present and a note from Grandma which she made me read 4-5 times. She loves getting letters and having me read them to her. She is really enjoying her present week (I know ...hard to believe). In the box was a Spot birthday book to prepare her for her upcoming bday and so she sat at the breakfast table singing happy bday spot while reading her new book. I normally try and browse the paper in the morning while we eat our breakfast and so as soon as I grabbed the paper she told me that she wanted to read her book. So there we sat, Mommy reading the WSJ and K reading happy bday spot... It was a really nice moment.

Last night we took K to one of my favorite restaraunts (Il Postale in Sunnyvale). We have been going there for about 8 years, but haven't taken K since she was really little and slept through all our dinners out. I remember being so excited to take K to Left Bank when she was 5 days old because we got to eat a whole meal together. Now I really understand how big of a deal that is. Il Postale was awesome!!! She shared my standard meal, loved the noodles, sprinkling cheese on her bread, dipping (ok drenching) her bread in olive oil and eating chocolate treats at the end of her meal. She was able to sit through the whole meal happily and as it is not really geared to kids she used some of my pens and notebook to draw until it was time to eat the 1/2 a cup of cheese with her bread. After dinner we took her for a little walk. I am really amazed at how much better she is doing sitting and eating at the table and through a whole meal at restaraunts. Even her breakfasts have become so long that I have to hurry her out the door because she will often eat two - three helpings of cereal.