What My Girls Are Up To....

• Chloe is most definetly 3 going on 13. Her new favorite word is 'totally', and 'cool' has been making it's appearance also.
• Ava now gives Mommy about 2.2 seconds to respond to her request (or demand) before reaching absolute meltdown. She turns two at the end of August.
• The girls get along well, for the most part, but the past few days they've done the freakout thing in the car when one of them touches the other's carseat. I totally remember doing this with my brother when we were kids and it drove my mom crazy. Payback stinks.
• Ava is talking up a storm! She loves to sing and absolutely loves Veggie Tales. Because of our recent stress I've put off potty training, cutting her off her paci and moving her to a big girl bed. Life is so stressful I'm thinking she'll be a paci-sucking, diaper wearing, crib sleeper until she's 12. Poor thing.
• Chloe prays every night for Jesus to give us a new house. She prays for one with stairs and a swimming pool. Me too, little girl, me too.
• About 850 times a day Chloe says to me "Mommy, guess what? I love you!". She's also learning about tithing and giving to others that don't have what we have. Her Sunday school class has been teaching them about tithing for a while and I didn't know. Every Sunday she would ask me for money and finally I got wind as to why. I had no idea they taught the kids this at age 3, but she totally gets it!
• We love going to the Zoo and Wild Animal Park and I especially love spontaneous trips to either. Last week we had to drive into "town" (yes, we're far from everything now!) and I decided we should go to the Wild Animal park after running errands. It was 6:00pm, the park closed at 8, so we had a good, but short, adventure!
• This summer is turning out to be the opposite of last summer, swimming-wise. Last summer Chloe was terrified of water and Ava loved it, this year they've flip flopped! Chloe is just the right age for swimming lessons too!
• Chloe was introduced to Barbies at my parents' house last week. I'm not thrilled about this, but I convinced her to keep them at Nana's house. (They're all my old Barbies.) I'm not sure I'm okay with Barbie having "parts". I just think she's too young still....my mom has a different opinion, but I think she just wants to unload them on me!

Happy Sunday!