Busy, busy bees

We're still here!  It's sunny and warm these days, which means we're not in with the computer.  We're out, blowing bubbles, swinging, puffing dandelions, attempting to ride tricylces and going to birthday parties.  It's a rough life, I tell you.  

 The girls seem to enjoy nothing more than being outside, talking a walk or playing the yard.  Here's Naomi, distributing weed seeds all over the neighborhood. 

What else?  It's hard going 9 days between posts.  I don't know how to capture all the little moments and stories. There are so many, each day.

We went to Jeff's first birthday party today (Jeff's the second son of one of the Dinner Swap ladies, for those of you who keep track of these sorts of things.) and the ladies loved it.  After the first five minutes in which they were paralyzed by shyness, that is.  This happened last week at Ivy's 2nd birthday as well.  (Yep.  Ivy's two.  How is this going so fast???) Naomi buries herself in the neck of whoever's caryying her and puts her hand over her eyes.  It's a classic "I can't see you so you can't see me kind of move."  But they warmed up quickly, definately aided by the fact that there was a beach and playground.  The water was chilly, but they didn't care.  They leapt in and out of the water, shouting "Ta-Da!" at each splashy landing.  They were very excited about the cupcakes, of course.  Lillian was licking the paper liner, getting frosting on her forehead, entertaining the masses.  At some point, she realized that the cupcake had a purpose and began exclaiming "Oh!  Birthday!  Happy Birthday!  Yayy!  Happy Birthday, Mama!"  Cupcakes and birthdays are synonymous, it turns out. 

 

We're counting down days until summer, here, so hopefully posting gets more regular soon.  Until then, go blow some bubbles.  It's fun.

 We had such a good weekend, it took me four days to come down and write about it!  We took the girls back to the zoo on Sunday.  It was a beautiful day, sunshine and breezes and laughing kiddos.  Here you see Naomi roaring at the lion.  The girls both really noticed the animals this time.  We watched the monkeys and the fish and the elephants for a long time.  Below is a very blurry Lillian, totally captivated at the shark tank.  She oooh-ed and ahhh-ed whenever the sharks cruised by.

Here's Naomi on the camel at the playground.  While the girls were excited about the animals, they were perhaps more enthralled the playground and the tram, which they called the school bus.

In other news, I promised myself I wouldn't be this parent, but...

 NAOMI PEED ON THE POTTY!!

Just the once so far, but there is hope.  If I could just get them to potty train, I'd be okay with them not aging anymore.  They are so stinking adorable.