I have so many happy memories of visiting my grandparents. I think our "exit plans" for life really suck. You either go too quickly or seem to hang around waiting while feeling forgotten. I try to make the time to go visit two people who have always been so supportive, caring and positive pieces of who I am. I often thank my girls for being patient with their forgetfulness or old fashioned ways while we visit, but am so happy they too enjoy the visits and know they cherish their time visiting them.

Lavonne Elizabeth & Natalie Elizabeth

Front swing

Look who's been bit by the bookworm?! Brought her book to breakfast :)

No need to help me Mom, I can serve myself...

Love, love, love seeing them voluntarily play together

First Click Clack Mafia Sister Sleep Together
I hope they have many many more :)

How did she get so big so fast?

Always a nut...

The sisters

Look out, she's got the power of the hose

Lauren is trying to figure out the English language.

I've been trying to teach L to replace her shrieking of "NO!" with a polite "No thank you." Yesterday she got closer with "No welcome, No welcome"

We've been dogsitting a male dog and L calls out to her "Good girl boy" She doesn't yet have a concept of what girl and boy are, just knows she hears "good" and "girl" together a lot.

We were watching a YouTube video of a chicken egg hatching. I asked her what was inside. She confidently replies, "Candy!"

Natalieisms-

"God is all about Easter."

"I'm dripping hot."

Jason and I were talking about franchises and V asked, "What is a franchise?" Natalie exclaims, "Valla, you KNOW what french fries are!"

I'm struggling with blogging...when I didn't know people were reading it, I had the freedom of being unjudged. Now I find myself hesitating to post photos or snipits of our lives. Is it cute enough, witty enough, blah blah blah. I blog to journal our lives. Wish I had the time and patience to tryout cute fonts and clever photo effects. I'm not sure what I'm doing, but I don't seem to have time for that.