All week

We stayed home all week and played in the house all day long. It's been fun, but exhausting. The girls really crack me up - Sophia with her wild imagination and Lilly with her obsessive compulsive behavior.

Let me explain. Lilly is constantly taking things and putting them in random places. Just in the last week she's put a book in the kitchen garbage can and her shoe in the garage garbage can. She put a small Dora doll in the container of dish washing tabs under the sink, a kitchen cup in the laundry hamper, and a pair of Sophia's underwear in the toilet. A few months ago she put tons of toilet paper in the toilet causing it to get clogged. I actually blamed Sophia for a long time until I figured out that Lilly was the culprit. I wonder how many times this will happen? I definitely don't want to wrongly accuse either of them!

Some things Sophia did this week:

• Sophia just sang the ABCs out loud and at the very end of the song she sang, "Won't You Sing with Me, darn it.


• When we got home from the grocery store yesterday Sophia ran upstairs as soon as she got into the house. She didn't even look back. It was the first time that she's gone off by herself to play! And she's doing it today too. The FROG is her play retreat room. Mission Accomplished...Now if we could only move Lilly's toys into the FROG.
  
  Sophia made all the dolls and stuffed animals in the room take a nap. She gave each one a blanket and a pillow. How cute.


• Sophia's been climbing into Lilly's crib in the mornings when she hears Lilly babbling. I give them their private time together as I mentally prepare for the day. They both jump up and down for a while. I hear Sophia singing a lullaby and can tell by Lilly's intermitent cries that Sophia is trying to push her down so she'll take a nap and play along with the lullaby. I usually go in to intervene when Lilly's cries get louder and louder. It's really cute to see Sophia being nice to Lilly even if it is only for 2 minutes.


• Sophia's been getting out of bed in the mornings and coming into our room to my side of the bed. She loudly whispers, "Mommy, can I get up?" and Will always says NO. That doesn't fly at all so I get up with her and if I'm lucky she'll let me sleep on the couch with her while she watches a "program".