Running behind on my summary of super stuff…again. This is feeling like a nasty habit! I’m going to bullet-point (as best I can,
anyway), so I can finally publish this and start making notes for the new week!
So what super-fabulous things highlighted the past week at
A&B Enterprises?
1)
The nice lady at the post office let the girls
cancel their own letters. They thought
it was so cool!
2)
We found an awesome farm not too far from town,
where we picked about five pounds of blueberries. As a family, we ate those five pounds in a
mere five days…there’s nothing like the fresh goodness…especially when you
picked it yourself!
3)
On the way home from picking blueberries, Baby A
said, “Mommy, look!!!” She spotted five
wild turkeys hanging out in a field. We
turned around to see them again. She was
so proud of how observant she was!
4)
The girls love to hear stories, especially about
our cats. Many of the stories take place
before they were born. The girls commit
those stories to memory, though, and then they love to retell them…”I remember,
one time, when I was in your tummy and you lived in North Carolina…” Forget that we moved from North Carolina six
years before they were born!
5)
I overheard B talking nonsense to A. “What, Sissy?” A asked. B told her she was speaking Spanish. “Oh,” A said,” I don’t speak Spanish very
well.” Hahaha!
6)
After a beautiful (and nowadays rare) nap, I
took the girls to eat ice cream cones. I was
amazed at their skill in eating a cone.
This was only the third or fourth cone they’ve ever had, but you never
would have guessed. B tore into hers,
while A ate methodically. Aside from an
ice cream mustache, neither made a mess!
7)
The girls got their green couch (from Pottery
Barn) for their second birthday, but I unfolded it for the very first time a
couple of days ago, as they watched a little bit of Animal Planet with their
daddy. I could not get over the
sweetness of seeing them snuggled together with their blankets and babies…a
small vision into future family movie nights and slumber parties.
8)
Seeing Baby B, standing on her tiptoes to get an
extra bite of banana muffins from her Daddy.
9)
Seeing Baby A, totally enamored with the hunk of
watermelon her daddy gave her as he was cutting our first melon of the season.
10)
B explains the
world: "I can think about two things at once, because my brain has two
halves."
11)
Seeing Baby B
jump on a swing, and before I could register what was happening, Baby A started
pushing her. I had no idea they were old
enough to do this! But it was so
incredibly sweet!!!
12)
Seeing the girls playing with a set of matroshka
dolls for the first time. Hubby and I
have so many sets from our trips to Russia…and it was pretty incredible to see
our baby girls enjoying them so much.
13)
I always tell the
girls to listen to their bodies as to how much they should eat. After eating a
bowl of warm blueberry cobbler, Baby A said, "Mommy! Listen to my tummy!
Can you hear it? It's saying, 'More! More!'"
14)
I heard the end
of B's conversation on her toy phone: "OK, God, bye-bye. Amen."
15)
"My nose
likes breathing cool air, not warm air." That's one way to ask Mommy to
crank up the air conditioning in the car, apparently.
16)
A former
colleague came over for a short visit on Saturday morning, bringing her 8 ½-month
old little boy. The girls were so
excited ahead of their visit. They had
quite the elaborate set-up of towers for him to knock over.
17)
At bedtime last
night, I said to Baby A: "I love you." Her response? "I do, too. I love me. And I love you. And Daddy,
and Sissy, and Sasha." How I love that she loves herself. What a gift!
18)
"Here, go
get me the [pretend] computer. I need to check the weather," asked Baby A. "What does it say?" "It says tornadoes on Monday, volcanoes on
Tuesday, and just rain showers on Wednesday." I'm not sure where they're pretending we live...but it
sounds like we need to move!
19)
Took the girls to
craft time at the local craft store on Saturday, where they made Uncle
Sam-inspired hats. They wanted to wear
them as we ran next door to Kohl’s. It
was so much fun seeing the reactions of everyone in the store…the girls were
beaming with pride as so many people complemented their craftsmanship.
20) We enjoyed a visit from GG, Uncle Tommy, and Aunt GG on Tuesday. The girls were SO excited to learn they were coming, and they were so tickled to snuggle with them during their visit. I surprised everyone (except perhaps the girls) when I asked for a "silly face" photo. I love how much the adults got into it, just like the kiddos!
See...lots of super keeping us busy! Just gotta make better time to get it all in the books!