We've been busy wrapping presents...

In the midst of wrapping presents, and trying to find the perfect presents to ask Santa to bring to our two little elves, I looked around and asked myself, "Why do I even bother?"

We have a house full of presents, but the girls clearly prefer...

(we cannot keep Quinn away from Pearl! Quinn is doggy-obsessed).

It took Quinn 2 weeks of crawling to discover my shoes.

This weekend she was nuts about our door stops. All weekend long, we've heard the BOING of the stopper as she flips it again and again. Which made me think --- I can't think of anyplace in my parents house that has these. Grandma Eb's house had them. I remember that my favorite one was in the family room downstairs, for the closet door. I loved that thing.

Mia bought this puzzle for Cora last summer. I've pulled it out several times, but she wasn't ready for (or interested in) it. Today, that changed.

 Back after the door-stopper.

 I don't know what Quinn was doing here, but I LOVE this face.

 This weekend we've started talking about coloring in the lines. She kind of gets it.
She's noticeably more focused on sticking to smaller areas of the page, and when she thinks she's done a particularly good job, she wants us to come look.

That's a spool for ribbon (Cora had already used it as a canvas for her markers).

Why did we send that long list of actual toys to Santa again?