Dang, I suck at updating this blog!

Yikes, it has been 8 months since I last wrote about my sweet, sweet, adorable, infuriating, loveable, maddening, precious, girls. However, I have kept a short diary of a few things they have done over the past few months. 12/14/11- Ava, my mom, Joe, Adrienne, and I went to our annual Christmas tea. Incredible as usual. Ava also wanted to do nothing but be "baby Jesus" in the manger scene. She laid in a basket with the princess tent over her and I had to be Mary and Lucy was always "the prayer". So sweet! 12/30/11- Lucy went pee-pee on the potty for the first time! She since then did not go again until about June, but hey, it was pretty exciting at the time. Also, that night when I was reading "The Island of the Skog" to Ava for bedtime and thinking about how little Lu reminded me of "the skog", Ava blurted out "You think the skog reminds you of Lucy, right?" So weird...psychic child. 12/31/11- Ava reads! Well, in actuality, she memorized "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", but still, quite impressive! She knows nearly every word! After she fell asleep, she also set up Fancy Nancy,the Grinch, and Oscar on the floor with individual blankets. Adorable. 1/4/12- We went to the Museum of Natural History with my mom. The kids both loved it, but it was something of a challenge for mom and I. As far as checking on Ava at night goes, I never know what I will find in her room when I check on her. She had a basket, guys, and a tree house, all in bed with her. She also had a ball playing "teeny tiny ghost" in the princess tent. She was the teeny tiny ghost and I was the other ghosts. Lucy says "apple"! Her first real word besides "mamma" & "dadda". Ava is counting a lot and trying to read words. She is just so sweet, almost to a fault. She always allows her little friends the benefit of the doubt such a flexible kid! If one of her friends wants something she has she just gives it to them. It makes me love her more in a soft cozy place in my heart, but part of me wants her to defend herself too and not let other kids walk all over her! She can now play on the computer all by herself! That's nuts. She learns a lot thought. Lucy can now identify things in pictures when I point to them! That is pretty crazy. She loves the slide and LOVES the park. Especially the swings. 1/8/12- Lucy now says apple, up, hi, and ice. It is still amazing to me when she says new words. It is crazy how kids learn! So fascinating! We were getting a little concerned about Lucy's lack of speech at this point (spoiler: she is doing just great now! Lots of 2 word combinations and meaningful speech :-) Ava said she wants to have a bunk bed with Lucy when she is older so she can sleep on the top and when I leave at night she can "go into Lucy's fort on the bottom and see how Lucy snuggies". Warm fuzzy feelings :-) I will write more later...bed is calling!