Birthday First

Yesterday was my birthday.  The blow of moving up one more age bracket in the survey questions was definately softened by the fact that this year, for the first time ever, two little people said to me, "Happy Birthday, Momma."

And that it was 65 degrees and sunny.  That, too.

Since no one was smart enough to take a picture of anything yesterday, most especially Naomi eating a very large piece of birthday cake all by herself, here are some pictures of the girls playing with trains.

It's been a recent obsession.  They crawl all over each other an the track shouting, "Choo!Choo!" and get very annoyed when the track comes apart.  We are also learning lessons in magnetic polarity as it is a major crisis when the trains won't stick together the right way.  This train obsession has been another example of Lillian's sorting personality.  She only plays with the two green trains. Naomi can have the other 12 cars of various colors, but Lillian just wants the two that are green. Which explains exactly why Naomi wants those, too.  Seriously.  Is the U.N. this hard?  I may put in an application.  Let me at the Middle East Peace Negotiations.  It can't be any more difficult. Just as log as I can distract everyone with play-dough if the talks take a downturn.