let's go!

While there is often a battle over who gets what toy, usually the case being "this is mine and don't take that I was going to play with it next". There are those rare moments like this morning when the girls actually share. The one thing Sophia enjoys more than pushing her Dora mobile is being pushed on her Dora mobile, Anna was all too happy to oblige.  

daycare fever

The week started out....how shall I say.....not so great. With the colder weather came the colds themselves and Sunday night was a real bear with Anna struggling to breathe all night. It seemed to come on the moment we put her down for the night and after a while we actually had to get her up for a bit so she could pull herself together. If you know Lisa and I at all you'll know getting the girls up once they have been put down for the night is the absolute last resort. Well needless to say Anna was not a happy girl and there was really little we could do for her except give her some Tylenol and hope that she could sleep it off. Unfortunately she just wasn't going to get any sleep in her condition so Lisa decided to spend the night on the couch with her and after a few hours I took over for her. It was after two when I finally put Anna down for the night and she was so utterly exhausted by that time that she actually did fairly well getting some sleep. Morning came and she was fine other than some sniffles, which we've all had. In fact she was in a good mood all morning, which is more than I can say for Sophia (I'm thinking Sophia doesn't sleep as well unless her sister is in the room with her) Daycare time came and it was the typical routine, Sophia content with whatever, and Anna sobbing at the very sight of Chickie.

On Tuesday, daycare drop off was the same but apparently Anna had a fever - 101 degrees according to Chickie, after Lisa was called to come pick her up it miraculously disappeared by the time Lisa had the girls home a half hour later. Chickie had said that Sophia was also walking around crying for no apparent reason. All this had me concerned that either Anna was developing a fever because she detested the whole daycare thing, or that our daycare provider was flaking out on us because she felt our girls were unmanageable, the latter being absurd of course being that our girls are angels (yea, OK parental bias). But now as the week is winding down I am happy to announce that when Lisa picked the girls up from daycare yesterday, Anna was actually sad to leave and cried for half the car ride home. Not only that but when I dropped the girls off today Anna was just fine with being handed off to Chickie [a first], although Sophia cried, Chickie joked that they must have traded places. I'm guessing Sophia is working on a molar coming in, otherwise, I think it's all going fairly well .   

cool and lazy

The weather has taken a turn for the cooler this week and we've been taking it easy over the weekend. Yesterday we walked down to Curran's family restaurant for breakfast with the girls riding in their wagon. It was nice to get out and we enjoyed being out on the town so much we decided to head out to the mall and walk around for a while. Anna and Sophia did not care for this so much and were fairly bored so we didn't stick around there for very long. Both girls were in the mood to be active so we stopped off at the Lynhurst Park on our way home. They had loads of fun crawling around on the jungle gym and sliding down the slides. Whenever either of them would get to a slide they would very slowly and methodically turn around and back down onto the slide. Usually Sophia just flirts with the idea of sliding down but doesn't actually take the plunge, she'll back down to where she is almost completely on the slide but not quite to that point of no return and then she'll struggle to get back up the slide. Anna also backs down but typically reaches that point of no return and will sometimes get stuck midway down, but mostly she will just let herself go all the way. When Sophia sits in the sand she enjoys picking out the rocks and either bringing them over to me or to her mom, while Anna likes to take big handfulls of sand and drop it into the grass or onto a bench or any other place sand doesn't really belong.