Weekend recap

This weekend was exactly what I needed. I have been fighting a cold for weeks now and it finally got me good on Friday. But after shots of emergenC and vinegar (swear it helped) I was feeling worlds better in Saturday. Which was just in time for my Office's Christmas Party at Silverado Cooking School. Nick was able to take the whole day off and we had a lazy morning that included going to a late breakfast and taking the kids to the pets store so the oldest could spend his birthday money on a hermit crab. Which by the way he is obsessed with!! 

Later that evening us grown-ups headed up to Napa while my sister was awesome enough to watch over the babes. We learned how to make a gorgeous salad which included goat cheese and persimmons, carrot ginger soup (I could have eaten bowls of it!), boeuf bourguignon over homemade egg noodles and a trio of sorbet (green apple, pear and lemon). It was a beautiful meal with great company. 

The weather has been below freezing here, and terrible it seems for most everyone we know in the country. So it was really nice to have a Sunday filled with a warm oven and Holiday goodies!  Shane was flipping through the December issue of my Happy Mommy Box magazine that had just come in and was begging to make the recipe for peppermint fudge that was featured. So simple and easy to put together while a certain someone was napping ;) 

We also put together and decorated some gingerbread houses I picked up. Unfortunately Shane was getting a little excited adding decor to the roof that it eventually caved in >:/ poor guy handled it really well after the initial shock wore off. 

We ended the weekend rolling out a few gingerbread snowmen and did a simple outline with icing. 

Just an all around refreshing weekend. 

Ah ha!

There is no better feeling than the confidence in knowing what you child needs. Those cries in the early weeks, maybe even months, when you are unsure or try a few things and pray something works all lead up to that magical moment when it all clicks. Your infant fusses, you picked her up and with a pat on the back out pops a burp. Your little one fusses and you both nestle in for a nursing session and they lull to sleep in your arms. 

There won't be many moments that you won't have to think or second guess you will just know. 

::high five:: 

But this one, this moment, you got in the bag! 

She speaks!!!

She speaks... Sort of. All day long it's been "yayayayaya" so much so I just assumed she had been doing this for Daddy while I was at work until I brought it up to him and he said no. 

It's such a rush watching her discover the world. I wonder what her first actual world will be? I bet it just might be an animal or the sound one makes. Quack, quack!