What can you do inside when it’s COOOOLD outside?

The past week in pictures:

There are two sets of pictures here.  The first are Karina with her new tricycle and her new “crash helmet.”  It’s a hoot---it’s so big that she has to work hard to keep from being top heavy! 

The second set are pictures of the package that Auntie Susan sent her this week.  It came when we were still in our jammies, and we just had to open it and try on what was inside!  Thank you, Auntie Susan!

 

 

 

Stay warm, everybody!

Just a “normal” night at our house…

Pictures from the last couple of weeks

Yes, I know I am a bad blogger (“bad blogger, bad blogger!”)  I apologize---the last few months have been just a big crazee here.  I do promise to come back and catch up with the news.  For tonight, however, it’s just pictures from the last couple of weeks:

And then, something amazing happened….

I should explain here.  When Auntie Susan and I picked Miss K up last Christmas, we got the lecture.  The “Russian grandma” lecture.  About how Russian babies wear hats.  ALWAYS.  It’s not that we didn’t make her wear her hat.  It was just that our translator in Moscow felt very strongly that, even though it was nearly 50 degrees outside, Miss K had to wear a hat.  And this needed to happen even when she went home.  (Something about how she would have terrible earaches if she didn’t wear a hat all the time. Even inside.)

Well, apparently, Miss K didn’t understand her.  Once we got home, she REFUSED to wear a hat.  The few pictures that we have of her wearing a hat are elusive and momentary.  (Pretty much “ok, Steve, you put the hat on her head and jump back while I take the picture before she notices.”)  So, what’s amazing is that yesterday, when she and I went outside to walk around and it was kind of chilly, and I asked her “do you want to wear a hat?” she said “yes.”  Knock me over!  Here’s the proof:

 

More pictures….