Cardboard Castle

Down at the D&M complex we had a delivery that had some HUGE boxes.  We took advantage and made Molly her own little castle.  That's what she was calling it anyhow.  She had a whole story line going where everyone was Rapunzel and she was trapped in her castle.  I think boxes are the universal awesome toy...some of my favorite childhood memories are in boxes. Ramsey might feel differently since she remembers finding me in my box down at the paint store infested with ants.

We're getting a new roof put on the house right now and because that makes a lot of racket we hung out at the store and YSB last week.  It's made me seriously consider whether working (taking the girls with me of course) would be at all possible.  Being at home with two small children ALL the time can be a little maddening.  Yes, I would still have them with me, but just a change of scenery as well as having a few more faces to look at might be nice.  Another added bonus that I hadn't considered might be a cleaner house.  The first day we were out of the house Jonny came home and asked me who had cleaned the house.  Of course no one had cleaned the house, we (Molly) just hadn't been there all day making messes.  So yeah, maybe we'll start going downtown and screwing up the office instead.  Ha!
Papa and the girls

Maggie frequently gets that deer in headlights look.

Molly might hate me someday for posting this picture, but she was cracking me up the other day with her insistence that she get her "newspaper" before she used the potty.  She's been getting really good at using the big toilet by herself and can even manage it with out a step.  There was one incident where she fell in.  She was pretty upset, but I have to admit I thought it was pretty funny.  When it happened she she kept going on about how she would "never" fall in the toilet again.  "Never" "forever" and "for hours" have all made their way into her vocabulary.  She's "never" going to cry again (yea right!) and anything she likes doing is going to be done "for hours" or "forever", which makes sense since I'm pretty sure that hours feel like forever when you're a little one.  It's interesting to see the concept of time start to show up.

Maggie has been going crazy around dinner time, and she sits up pretty well now, so I thought I would let her give rice cereal a try.  I think she spit most of it out, so I decided that, despite her enthusiasm, we'll wait a few weeks before we try again.

Molly has 3 dance classes under her belt now and I think it's going pretty good.  She still needs to work on listening (what a surprise) but she participates and seems excited to be there.  There's a recital in June and I've paid for the costume.  Should be hilarious.