The Favelo's

Friday, December 26, 2008

Christmas at Grandma Dee's

We did Christmas in Los Banos with Grandma Dee and Rick the Sunday before Christmas because Rick had to work Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We all had a wonderful time with the family.

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Playing piano

Grandma Veve giving the kids piano lessons.

They were both very good students - paying attention to the finer things in life.

Trying it on their own.

Abigail is always looking up to her big brother.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Restaurant.com - now even cooler

Tip of the day. :-)

You may have heard of the website Restaurant.Com? Basically, you can buy 25$ restaurant gift certificates for only 10 bucks. Sounds like a pretty good deal right? Well, it just got even sweeter. When you go to Wow Coupons (cool site as well), they currently have a coupon code to where you can get that 25$ G.C., for only 3$!!! No joke! We have done it, and it really works. We ate out at some nice restaurants when we were in Carmel, and this made the bills really reasonable. We have also bought a few for some restaurants in this area, but haven't used those yet. The current code is "ONLINE", and it is only valid through tomorrow, the 11th, but there will likely be another one after that, or soon, but maybe not for 3$. Enjoy!

Quick and easy Christmas Treats

Here is a link I found when looking up a recipe. The thread was titled Quick and Easy Christmas Treats. The opening post says: "Let share some quick and easy Christmas or other Holiday treat ideas/recipes for those of us who don't have time to make lots of cookies. Please only include ideas/recipes that take less than 30 minutes to make."

They are simple, fun, and tasty. Just my style! I had fun looking through the different recipes and I got some great ideas! (There is a compiled list on page 53). Enjoy!

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Growing up fast

Abigail is growing up so fast. She has her top two teeth just about all the way in, one is still breaking through. Very cute. She is very steady with sitting up now, and is getting better at rolling over. She does this little thing where it kinda sounds like she is laughing at herself. It sure makes us laugh. We usually say that she is telling jokes in the back seat.

She has been eating all kinds of things too. She even had turkey for Thanksgiving. She had bananas a few times this week. That was a bad idea. :-( Bananas are something that you would want to eat if you need to stop diarrhea, so this week we found out that the converse is also true. So, Abigail also got to have prunes and apple juice this week. That seemed to do the trick.

Sign Language

Abigail has been making her first sign in sign language! Can anyone guess the word??? Yep, MILK. :-) I often wonder if she thinks that my name is "milk" also. But hey, the sign for milk is a whole lot easier to make than the sign for mama. :-) We taught Noah sign language when he was little, and we found it VERY helpful. It is so fun to see them be able to communicate even before they are verbal, and it helps them to not be frustrated or have a reason to whine, because they can just tell you what they need/want.