Winning isn't everything

Overheard this morning...

"Mommy go to hockey game?"

"Yes, I did. I did good too. I won."

Madeleine pauses for a minute and says, "I'm two," and holds up two fingers.

Flipping for Sunday

Weekend Update

We had an exciting weekend. We started off Saturday morning with a trip to Lifetime Fitness. It had been a year since I had last dropped them off in the child care center there, so I thought it might be time to try again. This year they're big enough to enter the jungle gym area, which has a large climbing structure along with a play house and other toys.

Both girls went in fine, and there was no crying. Meanwhile I went upstairs to use the elliptical. Listening intently for a page, I never got one and returned an hour later. When Madeleine saw me walk through the door, she ran toward me and ran smack into another kid. That set off the crying, and I went in to get her. But I couldn't find Lily. She was in the bathroom going potty all by herself. Danielle, the girl who had been supervising them, said Madeleine had cried for me once, but Lily was a social butterfly and had been having an awesome time.

I'll probably try it again if the girls will let me. It was just too hot this weekend to do anything else outside, and I thought this would be a great way to get their climbing in while being indoors.

So after that we went out to the big pool. We stayed for about a half an hour. It got really crowded. Madeleine kept wanting me to "throw" her, and Lily wanted to swim on her own.

The picture above was taken Saturday afternoon. Lily had stolen my gym socks, called them "tights" and was wearing them with my shoes. Around 4:30 they went over to Grandma Bench's house so that Mommy and Daddy could have date night. We picked them up Sunday morning.

Today we went shopping at Target. I picked up some toddler sun hats that we'll probably never wear. Then we went grocery shopping. They were out of the two-child carts that we usually use. There was another twin mom there whose sons looked about 18 months old, and she was by herself. I could tell she was stressing about what to do. We put Lily in the cart that I pushed, and Madeleine used one of the small "customer in training" carts and did her own shopping. Eric walked with her, and she followed me closely. She only clipped my heels 3 times, but she was very grown up about shopping.

Princess Thursday

Today we wore dresses. I don't usually dress them up to go to day care since I know that the playground is a little hard on their clothes. But it was supposed to be 99 degrees today, so I figured they'd be inside most of the day.

Whenever they get their dresses on, Lily and Madeleine pretend to be princesses and spin their skirts around.

Lily Sleeper

Lily is totally faking it at this point for the most part.
Not much room with both of them in the crib here.

Madeleine Sleeps

On the tummy, no covers, face buried.

Sleeping Babies

When the girls were little, I used to take a ton of pictures of them sleeping. They were just so cute wrapped up. I took the photo above early one morning while I was just in their room watching them sleep (as opposed to sleeping myself). In the beginning, they both liked to be swaddled tightly. They hadn't honed their Houdini-like skills yet.

I'm trying to capture some current photos of the girls sleeping. I got one of Madeleine this morning and will post it later. Lily was already awake and wouldn't even pretend to sleep when I asked. I'll try again later, but I'll give you a clue. It doesn't look anything like what's pictured above.