Quality time

     Coming to America opened up my english vocabulary immensely. For example, it took me quite some time to understand what it means to spend quality time with your children. It still makes me laugh thinking that one can spend quality and non quality time with their kids. Like, for example, you teach your kid to count, that's quality time. You scream at your kid for misbehaving, that's non quality? How do you draw the line? Can you have neutral (it's not quality, but also not non quality) time?

   That being said, we had plenty of quality time (by all standards) with Catalina this weekend. Since we pretty much flooded her brain with disney movies, we decided it's time for some artsy activities. We started with play dough and Catalina made a whole army of "peoples" :)

Bottom to top: Mommy, daddy, Catalina, baby (??? hopefully she's talking about her doll), Miss Edna, Miss Anna, Miss Anne (her teachers), Pascal, Dana, Gabi, Tanya, Tamina, Nalani, Kolja,
Catalina gains interest in new toys everyday, and high on her list are dolls. So, we assume that her interest in a new baby comes actually from playing with her "baby" doll.

Next stop on the artsy "quality time" was cutting paper. I remember how much I loved it when I was little. My daughter (and I am quite sure every other kid) likes it too.
Half an hour after rigorous vacuuming, Catalina made sure we have a reason to do it all over again :)

And this is how my cutie pie woke me up on Sunday: a beautiful picture of our family: mommy, Catalina and daddy.

Since we did get a little bit of snow, we decided to enjoy it. After finally convincing daddy to get outside, we took a walk in a park nearby. Catalina loved the snow, and wanted to play hide and seek around the trees.

We finished a beautiful weekend enjoying some quality (??) :) time in front of the TV. Mommy and Catalina watched "Despicable me". Actually I was watching while Catalina showered me with sweet kisses, telling me every second how much she loves me. Yes, I am a spoiled mommy :)
FYI: we are both wearing "Cinderella dresses" : a bath towel on your head makes it look like a cape and therefore very royal:)