nothing much...

The girls just went down for a nap and I thought I'd update this with a few of the things they are doing this week.

Emma napping with her butt in the air

Back view (look at her cute little feet)

Leah napping with her precious. She still gets the soother for naps.

We've driven John to the GO train everyday so far this week. Monday I took them to Costco and for groceries. I somehow managed to forget the diaper bag again so that was it. Yesterday we met Carrie and Ronan at the Ikea in Burlington. There is something about Ikea that the girls just don't like and they whined the whole way through. After that we went to Costco - I had managed to forget formula on Monday and Carrie wanted to go with me. The girls were relatively well behaved in Costco. They love sitting side by side in the shopping cart and basking in all the attention. And I love the cart because it is so much easier than the stroller and I can get whatever I need no matter how big or heavy. I'm not overly impressed with the stores that only fit one kid up front - Walmart, Canadian Tire, Petcetera, Ikea - I'm sure I'll be adding to that list. Today we went to visit baby Brennan. He is a a very peaceful little boy. I got to feed him the end of his bottle - I remember when Sarah was born I was so scared I was going to break her. I'm such a pro now! Yesterday the girls napped late so I decided to wait until we got back from picking John up to feed them. Of course it was the day that the train was delayed an hour because there was a fatal collision on the Lakeshore line. At the time I didn't know it was going to be an hour so I sat there waiting for the bored/hungry crying to start. They did surprisingly well and by the time they started fussing I had remembered that I had a Costco size box of Arrowroots in the trunk! So they had cookies for dinner. We didn't get home until 7 and not wanting to put them off their bottle (they need the fluid) we just gave them some cheese and a yogurt. We're lucky that for the most part they're pretty flexible. This morning I was cleaning up the kitchen and since the girls were still awake I just spot cleaned the floor. Of course they saw me doing it and raced over to see what was up. I turned around to put the sponge on the counter so I could move them (unfortunately "please go away" doesn't work) and they were both licking the floor. Gross. I moved them into the living room but they kept on racing to the kitchen to lick the floor. They thought they were pretty funny. I had to go sit in on the floor with thier favourite book to get them to stop it.

John reading them their favourite book. They climb up in your lap to read now.

They are starting to actually play together a bit more. We have these balls that rattle and one of them will pick one up and throw it. Then they both race for it and whoever gets it throws it again. Leah is doing surprisingly well at getting it before Emma. This went on for at least 30 minutes yesterday afternoon. On the not so cute side of noticing each other Emma has started pulling Leah's hair. It really hurts Leah's feelings (and head I'm guessing) and she does the saddest cry which starts up again if Emma looks at her. I guess we should be happy that she doesn't try and pull Emma's hair back (not that there is much to pull).

Leah

Leah kissing Jackson