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I might as well give a quick update on the girls. They keep me giggling constantly. I was literally in tears on Friday with something Annie said. We were buckling up in the car when Annie all of a sudden said, "Look, it's Lucy's man-ball!" It took me about a minute stop laughing enough to ask what she was talking about. Long ago we got this ball from a McDonald's happy meal that is Super Mario's head. Somehow it became a Lucy toy. Apparently, it was sitting in the front yard for Annie to notice it and nickname it "Lucy's Man-Ball". Along with Annie's strange observations she's also drawing like mad and learning lots of new words to spell. In fact, she asked just yesterday how to spell "indirect fire". Mike and I aren't sure where she finds the terms, but we're always happy to spell them for her, nonetheless. The girls have this activity/coloring book. In it there is an activity where you're supposed to put the first letter for several pictures. Annie can do this now without any assistance. She's able to sound out the word to figure out what letter it begins with. Annie's geting really good at drawing, too. We can usually tell what her pictures are supposed to be. Right now her favorite things to draw are princesses. The people in her belly aren't making as many appearances as they used to, but sometimes they will demand food. Oh, and Annie can swim with only wearing water wings now; occasionally, she'll even go underwater. We're very proud of her.

Mimi loves headbands. Each morning when we're getting dressed Mimi insists on wearing a headband. She even keeps it on her head all day long. However, last week she decided that she also likes to wear hats. For two days straight Mimi wore a pink baseball cap. On Friday she wore the knitted hat that looks like a strawberry, even though I stipulated that it would be too warm to wear such a hat. Sometimes when Mimi asks a question and gets "NO" for an answer she'll respond with "Oh, man!" Potty-training still isn't a priority for her. Just yesterday she went missing for a few minutes after exiting the shower (still naked, of course). When she reappeared Mimi had gone #1. I scolded her by saying something to effect of, "Mimi, it was naughty of you to go potty on the floor!" She responded with, "I'm sorry, Mommy. I won't do it again." How could I not be manipulated by that? So I told her that she needs to start going potty on the big, girl toilet. She said, "Ok, I will." I'm starting to think she's just telling me what I want to hear. She's also become quite discrete about going #2. The first time I noticed this she was standing in a corner for a few minutes by herself. Immediately afterward she ran over to me and said she was poopy. Then at church last week (I was subbing in the nursery) Mimi came up to me and said "I don't have to go potty!" Of course, I thought this was odd, so I asked her if she wanted to go sit on the big girl potty. She screamed with a negative response. I decided to just let it go especially since we were at church. Then I noticed her go over to the toy cabinet pull the door around her so that she was standing behind it. She came running out a couple minutes later and promptly told me she was poopy. That stinker (literally)! Evidently, she's making it quite clear that she's not ready to be potty-trained yet. I'm not giving up on her though.