Nature vs Nurture

I imagine we will always wonder this with Elizabeth. What of her traits are nature and what are from nurture. It is more of a question with her than with Sam, we know about his gene pool. Since E has an older brother, her house is filled with Lego bricks, Matchbox cars, penguins and triceratops. She does love to play with those things, but she really loves the toy kitchen. We have had it since Sam was young and it was never really played with. Now, E loves it. Today she got out her baby dolls and was for the first time playing with them. She made beds for them and was taking care of them. I have not encouraged this, just made them available to her. I got her a tea set over the weekend, and she was so excited to have dishes for her kitchen. On Sunday we were at my brother's house and she really enjoyed playing with the babies, stroller, and kitchen there. The picture above is at their house. She loves that duck and was trying to play with it and the baby carrier at the same time. I think this girl thing is just nature. When Sam was this age I tried so hard to get him to play like this, but he would not. Sometimes he would when he played with friends that were girls. So for Christmas and her birthday I think it will be an explosion of pink and girly for Elizabeth!

Here are some recent pictures:

We just love her hair in pig tails, she always pulls them out and we also love this post-pigtail look!

On Sunday we went to the Christmas tree farm. The kids were all bundled up. E's snow pants are way too big, but I can't find them smaller. She did not like all the winter clothes.

Pretty in Pink for Church.

After E goes to bed we like to do special things with Sam. He has been really into playing Monopoly. This time he won big. He had all the money, all the properties, hotels on all of them. Daddy and Mommy had nothing. He loved it! The game is helping him with his math skills too. Shhhh, don't tell him he is learning and having fun!