First Full Sentence!

Our little one is totally getting into more talking these days. All her words are in English... So not surprisingly in the language of Shakespeare, here is the sentences she delighted us with tonight at dinner:

'Mimi eat pasta' followed by
'Papai eat pasta' while pointing towards her dad, followed by
'Mamai eat pasta' while pointing towards her mom!

We will be working on the agreement piece another time, for now we know that either the Italian heritage is strong in this little one, or that we have to really diversify our diet!

Amélie in Elmo's Land

For Xmas this year, we decided to treat ourselves with a Jamaican vacation... The resort was great, with wonderful colors that complemented the incredible turquoise water:



We spent quite a bit of our time on the beach enjoying the sand, water and sun... More pictures to come, but first things first, what Amélie loved most by far was the Sesame Street Feast she had...

Seeing and hugging Elmo's picture:


Giving a high five to the full size Elmo:


Dancing with Cookie Monster:


Posing with Bert and Ernie:


And watching the incredible shows that all the characters participated in:

Amélie in Wintry Mix

It's not nearly as much snow as they have in the North East, but we have had our share of snow this weekend...

Amélie got to use her new snow suit, gloves, boots to brave the cold outside:



And it's never too early to have your kids help you with chores... So we had her help with snow removal on the car:

Tooth brushing!

Dad and I have been working a lot lately on tooth brushing...

What progress have I made... Dad was able to teach me to like the touch of the brush in my mouth (through conditioning from the sweet tasting kid toothpaste)...

Now, thanks to associative conditioning, I don't even need to have any sweet stuff to make me brush my teeth, the proud face of daddy is reward enough :)...

Cutest thing Amélie has said so far...

Amélie is starting to put sentences together, and so far the cutest thing was: 'Amélie Dancing' while performing a series of contorsions that some avant-garde choreographer would surely qualify as extremely post-modern progessivism!

As you can see, she is also becoming quite comfortable and good at performing the downward facing dog pose on demand: