Welcome to 2012!! The year should prove to be a good one. We celebrated New Years eve with a leisurely morning at the playground drinking coffee and watching the kids hunts for serpents. In the afternoon we started preparing for the festivities. Scott made the dough and all the fixings for some delicious pizza and laid it all out on the table. The family across the hall came over to celebrate with us and each person created his/her own pizza. After dinner there was wildness in the house as the kids ran around until bedtime. It didn't get too rowdy for the adults since more of us had to work on January 1. The traditional Bangladeshi calendar follows a different system and they celebrate a "New Year" later on in the year; January 1 isn't such a big deal here for them.
In 2012 we've been enjoying the calm before the storm of me having many colleagues in town and spending about 2 weeks up north at the Project. We're looking forward to a family vacation in early February after the calm returns - I can't wait for that!
We love that Henry plays independently all the time now. Some of the things he'll fill his time with are 'read' his books, play music and dance to it, and build big towers with his legos-type set. We always know when he's building because he'll run out of his room excitedly yelling "big tower!" enticing us to come look. His towers always start with this one long wheeled piece as the base and have to include all the pieces. For awhile he would only put the same type of pieces together but in the last few days he's tapped into his creative side and has started to make all sorts of big towers. It's so fun to see his creations. Oh, he always puts the "Mama" pieces on top. He's also gained an appreciation for camera's. In a few of these photos he was playing somewhere else in the room and as soon as I took out the camera he ran over to his big tower to stand proudly by his creation - hilarious. He loves big towers so much now that if he sees a huge stack of bricks when we're on our morning walk he'll yell out "big tower". Will he big a brick mason when he gets big?
Welcome to 2012!! The year should prove to be a good one. We celebrated New Years eve with a leisurely morning at the playground drinking coffee and watching the kids hunts for serpents. In the afternoon we started preparing for the festivities. Scott made the dough and all the fixings for some delicious pizza and laid it all out on the table. The family across the hall came over to celebrate with us and each person created his/her own pizza. After dinner there was wildness in the house as the kids ran around until bedtime. It didn't get too rowdy for the adults since more of us had to work on January 1. The traditional Bangladeshi calendar follows a different system and they celebrate a "New Year" later on in the year; January 1 isn't such a big deal here for them.
We love that Henry plays independently all the time now. Some of the things he'll fill his time with are 'read' his books, play music and dance to it, and build big towers with his legos-type set. We always know when he's building because he'll run out of his room excitedly yelling "big tower!" enticing us to come look. His towers always start with this one long wheeled piece as the base and have to include all the pieces. For awhile he would only put the same type of pieces together but in the last few days he's tapped into his creative side and has started to make all sorts of big towers. It's so fun to see his creations. Oh, he always puts the "Mama" pieces on top. He's also gained an appreciation for camera's. In a few of these photos he was playing somewhere else in the room and as soon as I took out the camera he ran over to his big tower to stand proudly by his creation - hilarious. He loves big towers so much now that if he sees a huge stack of bricks when we're on our morning walk he'll yell out "big tower". Will he big a brick mason when he gets big?
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