Christmas Greetings

Christmas greetings to all! We spent a wonderful three days in Monterey with Vera's family. We ate too much, laughed a bunch, and had an all around good time. Christmas Eve is when the family was does their gift exchange. While other people were ooh-ing and ah-ing over the gifts they were opening, Zoe, who has not quite caught on to the whole present opening thing, received this small gift bag from Nana (Vera's mom). She emptied out the bag and started putting things inside the bag, and then would walk around holding up the bag saying, "Oooh!" It was very cute.

I have been a great big slacker when it comes to updating this blog. I have some video snippets and cute stories from the past months that I hope to update soon. When I do, I'll back date the posts and at the same time create a new post highlighting the updates.

For now, here's a quick update: Zoe has begun to get used to day care. She willingly holds out her arms to go to Sonja (the day care owner) as we give her a kiss good bye. It's a good feeling to leave there with her not in tears. And she is always happy when we pick her up.

Zoe is changing so much these days. She is learning new words all the time, repeating words we say and experimenting with sounds. She loves to say words with the "s" sound. She says "dis" for "this" a lot and points at things. Other new words are:

"ites" for lights. She stared saying that as the neighbors put up their Christmas lights.
"bees"or "beeths" for strawberries, which she loves!
"ock" for clock.
"eyepoo" for diaper.
"teen" for train.
"ahckie" for broccoli, which she also loves!
"ahpee" which we think is for happy. We're not quite sure what she is saying on this one. Vera thinks it might be a song from day care.

From the Chrebletts, happy holidays!

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