Our Baby Girl Has Been Home One Month

Zen has adjusted so seamlessly to our family. She is such a precious baby girl!

Zen's first day home was rainy so we stayed in. She was trying to make sense of everything, so she mostly sat on the couch and observed that day. The only time she fussed is if she didn't have either Mark or me in sight. By the end of the first day, she was settled! It's truly amazing - within 24 hours of arriving home, she was golden. We went for a walk and to the beach and out to brunch her second day home and she was comfortable.

Her first week home was incredibly smooth. It took her a little while to adjust to a few things, such as the bath and the dog, but otherwise her transition could not be any better.

This was Zen's third day home. We are so lucky they like playing together.

This was Zen's first time at the playground. Poor darling was so uncoordinated. She is still a bit clumsy (for lack of a better word) and she falls a lot, cannot walk down stairs, gets lots of bumps/bruises. Going to the indoor and outdoor playgrounds is helping so much! Her balance seems to be getting better and we think she'll catch up on physical development without intervention services.

Her first doctor appointment was awful for her. Poor baby!

We got into the holiday spirit early this year. I started holiday shopping when M* was in Russia picking Zen up. Here they are "helping" me wrap presents.

We've been living here 6 years and this is our first Christmas tree! In the past, we had always traveled to see family for the holidays but we wanted to stay local this year, now that we have our little ones home.

We had a wreath on the door the day after Thanksgiving and the tree went up December 1st. Zen removed all of the decorations within her reach, so now only the top 1/3 of the tree is decorated

The girls love baking. We did gingerbread men out of sugar cookie dough.

We went to 2 boat parades. We carry Zen in the baby carrier a whole lot, even around the house (she loves it!) but for long walks we take the double pram. This was Zen's first fireworks display - she had fun and wasn't scared at all. Ali was a little disappointed that Santa was on a boat and not flying through the sky on a sleigh.

Dancing to Beethoven with Papa

Walking to the other boat parade. Love this little hat by Minimink. A lot of their clothes are second-hand...this coat is Catimini (scored on eBay) and has somebody else's name in it.

Hubs is working long hours right now on a huge project with a February deadline. It's so hard not having him around but fortunately he is able to take one day off per week. We went to have lunch with him at the workshop this past weekend.

Ali and the aliens at the workshop

Here are the girls making icing for a gingerbread house. Everything they make gets sampled many times throughout the cooking process.

The girls loved assembling and decorating the gingerbread house. Zen could not comprehend the concept of putting perfectly good candy on a house, so it has much less candy decor than Ali and I would have decked it out with.

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