One of the most beautiful things is to wake up and look outside to see that it's snowing! We only got a couple of hours of light snow, but it was wonderful! Hopefully there will be much more this winter.
And although we love the snow, we ARE looking forward to being in warm Florida this Thanksgiving. Tomorrow we're heading down to visit Barry and Kathy in Bradenton. We're really excited to spend some time with them!






Building her towers:
(Faranak, notice her shoes! We couldn't resist)



Sasha still loves making necklaces. We got her some smaller beads with smaller holes. It's a little more challenging and she can spend a good amount of time working on it. It's adorable to see her concentrating so hard on something.



As most children her age, she loves imitating. Here she's imitating us when we help her, by using her doll Sally. She would ask her "Do you need help, Sally?" And she would hold Sally's hand and pretend to help her put the string through.



This is another little, fun project. We color popsicle sticks and glue them into a square to make a little picture frame.



We'll be back on Sunday and will update the blog then! Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

I found a website which has paper dolls that you can print and cut out. If anyone is interested, you can check it out here.
This has been our new project and although Sasha can't cut them herself yet, she likes helping me put the glue on and choosing their clothes and hair. Here are a few of them that we stuck on the wall:



Doing her morning stretches with Daddy:




Sasha at her swimming lesson. She loves to kick and paddle, and she loves getting out of the pool and jumping back in.
We uploaded a couple of videos of her swimming onto our youtube page.
To see them click here



Beautiful Fall:





Beautiful daughter:

Here's a video of Sasha showing off her cute personality. She started doing this funny stomach laugh:



We went for a walk today, just around the neighborhood. That's our little apartment in the back corner, with the wagon in front:





We came back with bright red noses and frozen fingers, so we decided that a cup of hot chocolate would be perfect!




Sasha is always soo happy when Daddy comes home at the end of the day. Here she is showing her joy at being in his arms:






Working on her new project: Matching the word to the picture. She can't really do it yet. For now I'm just letting her get familiarized with the words. Later we'll do the matching.



When we put dishes away, Sasha loves to be in charge of the silverware:




Cooking is still one of her favorite things to do - (Just like Daddy!)




We found a great indoor park..perfect for this cold weather. Unfortunately it's not free so we've only been there once!




Since we're forced to be more indoors now, Sasha and I have been working on a few little projects which, if nothing else, have been a lot of fun to work on.
Here's a little booklet that has pictures of Sasha and her friends/family (just children) as well as children from all around the world. Sasha helped me with the layout and chose the pictures of the flowers. She tried to help me with the stick of glue, but ended up only wanting to use it as chap stick!








We're also making a little prayer book for her. Recently she has sat down a few times and pretended to read. She'll run her finger along the words (as we do sometimes when we read to her). So I printed out the prayers that she knows in big letters. We'll add more as she learns more. When we sit down at night to say prayers, we give her the book and she "reads" her memorized prayers.




This is her Seasons project. She has to stick the correct pictures under the correct Season on each poster. They have pieces of Velcro so she can take them on and off easily.
I'm always trying to think of new projects so if anyone has any ideas, please let me know! : )

Fall outside our window:



Sasha loves her strawberry hat (made by Grandma)



A view of the top:



Cooking: She can make a delicious bowl of rock soup (made with Daddy's rock collection!), as well as alphabet soup (made with magnetic letters!) or anything else she can find and mix together.



Getting into more difficult puzzles - completing them with mommy and daddy's help:




It's getting cold!




Waiting for Mommy to pull her in the wagon which she barely fits in anymore:



Sally's turn. (She named her doll after one of the cats in a Richard Scary's book)



So studious: