Monday Musings

• I'm so glad that we had a mild winter and spirng came early...sunshine makes me super happy!

• I love Ellie kisses. She opens her mouth wide and nuzzles your face...it's slobbery and messy and I'm madly in love with her kisses...I just can't get enough of the slobbery sweetness! Emmie didn't give kisses until she was able to give a regular kiss.

• I think I need to watch Downtown Abbey. The Greenville Library has the first season so I'm going to look and see if Richland has them.
• I am NOT a fan of Facebook Timeline. Everytime I scroll down a page that has timeline it loads more of the page and bumps me back to the top...so aggravating! 
• I also do not like the new blogger...not as bad as timeline but still a change...I'm not a fan of change.

• One of my big discoveries last year was the waterpark at Ft. Jackson (thanks Christina!) and I can't wait to take both girl this year...so much fun!
• Emmie is really big into ballerina's right now and any dress that has a little poof is a ballerina dress.

• Emmie's favorite color is purple. She gets so excited about all things purple....the funny part is her room is pink and green and Ellie's is purple and green...Ellie's favorite color will probably be pink!

• Today we were at wal-mart and I bought bathtub crayons...I just bought the cheap wal-mart brand and they ROCK...Emmie had a great time playing with them tonight and they are so easy to write with that even Ellie could use them...she was pretty pleased with herself.
• Emmie and Ellie have started playing this game where Ellie will say "eh" in kind of a high pitch and Emmie will do it back and they go back and forth making different sounds...super cute and I love to watch them play together! One day when I charge my video camera I'm going to record it.
• I think Ellie is getting close to crawling FORWARD...she's been getting up on her knees some and she'll hang out in the crawling position for a minute and then just kind of collapse and scoot backward in army crawl mode. She's also been pulling up to her knees some. I'm definitely ready for her to crawl and while part of me is ready for her to pull up another part of me is NOT ready...the child has the longest arms EVER and NOTHING WILL BE SAFE!
• Ellie started going to My Gym last week. The girls are going to a sibling class now and I'm super excited! Emmie had a little trouble with the change in routine but Ellie had a BLAST. My child who cries if anyone else holds her let everyone there hold her...while I was on the other side of the gym with Emmie. She was quite impressive on the bar as well. She gripped right on and she kept trying to pull herself up...her arms might be little but they are STRONG.
• Ellie started taking 1 nap a day last week. It's nice because the girls are down at the same time and it frees up our morning and the late afternoon. Since dropping the second nap she has also started sleeping until about 8:30.
• Emmie is so good in the morning...she usually gets up around 7:15 and goes potty and then she goes back in her room until Ellie wakes up. Sometimes she goes back to sleep and sometimes she reads. I'm pretty sure the child would stay in her room and read all day...who does that sound like?
• Today when Ellie got up from her nap I took her in Emmie's room to hang out and Emmie was playing with her dollhouse. She informed me that Ellie wanted to sit down and play dollhouse too. She gave Ellie the baby to play with (and informed Ellie that the table DOES NOT go in the bathroom..that's silly) and Emmie was the Mommy and Daddy...so cute!