Notes from home....

This afternoon when we checked our email, we had a great email from my parents, who are currently watching the girls. We thought we'd share some stories from home, from our two little ones waiting for their new brothers and sisters, and their mom and dad...

Three cute stories to keep you updated on your girls back here......At
breakfast we were talking about the
new brother/sistas and Lillia said, "When Mommy/Daddy get home they will
say, 'Where is my little girl?" and I will say, you do not have a little
girl because now I am a big girl...I am Lillia!".

And......Joanne and Richard did not send back the top to the two piece
bathing suit and Joanne said Lillia was constantly telling her the one piece
was hers and not Anabella's (although they had worn the opposite when they
were here before). So we had a talk and said maybe we should buy a new suit
and the truth came out........Lillia did not want her tummy to show and that
is why she did not like the two piece suit. She said the one piece suit was
"actually Anabella's". She picked one out (one piece of course) at Costco
with a pretty Hawaiian print and if I let her she would be wearing it 24
hours a day. So.......when Joanne sent the top of the other suit along with
some other things she had not brought over before, Lillia ignored it and is
happy to wear her new suit, life jacket and flop flops all day.....her
uniform.

Anabella is hanging in there.......wanting everything Lillia has so the best
solution is to divide and conquer. Dad takes her outside in the AM while
Lillia and I play......then at morning naptime, Lillia goes out to help Pops
for a while so I can take a shower (the quietest part of my day). Then
Lillia comes in for a snack, we 'sew' and then to the park, lunch, and
naptime. I usually am down for a power nap as well.

Oh-another good one. Joanne taught Lillia to read the clock and morning
time was at 6:30AM. Well, that worked the first day (HURRAH) but the next
day Lillia figured out where the clock was plugged in (on the serge
protector in the living room with the cord coming into the bedroom......)
and so she 'turned it off' by switching the serge protector off. Well, we
had a talk about that and she said she would not do it again........the last
two mornings she just turned the clock face down so she could not tell the
time.......quite a girl you have. SO our day is starting early.....Anabella
starts stirring at 5......we move her porta crib out to the living room
before we go to bed so they will not wake each other up......that sort of
works......Anabella points to all the boats going by in the lake and says
"boaaaaaasssss".

Well, off to our daily visit to the Bayview Park and then lunch. The other
day we took a picnic there and that was fun. Lillia has learned to hang on
the monkey bars and swing her feet up on the bar and hold them there! But
yesterday she go all worn out so I told her she had to go to the muscle shop
and buy some more muscles, which she did (the picnic table was the shop),
and was right back on it. Anabella can climb up the side bar ladder, step
across and has gone done the big slide twice. Love You, Mom and Dad

Thank you all for your prayers for the grandparents who have been watching our girls - it is no easy job! Also, thanks for the prayers for our girls, and their parents who are missing them terribly!