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Sunday, December 9, 2012

A little this, a little that

Thanks for the cute dresses, Mia.

 Not sure what was going on here...


 This weekend was the first weekend where they played together. I thought I was just being crazy, but Landon brought it up. Their favorite game was a game of crawling tag. Cora would take off crawling across the floor, and Quinn would chase after her. At one point they were wrestling happily in the living room.

Sisters.


The table has been Cora's sanctuary, but Quinn is now easily pulling-up to it, then standing there as if to say, "What do you want to do next?!?!" Sorry, CJ, but you'll have to start putting your projects away.



Caught eating a present. Uncle Shew's, to be specific.
 Pearl Girl.

Thanksgiving

A few of our favorites from the weekend.




































We've been busy wrapping presents...

In the midst of wrapping presents, and trying to find the perfect presents to ask Santa to bring to our two little elves, I looked around and asked myself, "Why do I even bother?"

We have a house full of presents, but the girls clearly prefer...



(we cannot keep Quinn away from Pearl! Quinn is doggy-obsessed).

It took Quinn 2 weeks of crawling to discover my shoes.



This weekend she was nuts about our door stops. All weekend long, we've heard the BOING of the stopper as she flips it again and again. Which made me think --- I can't think of anyplace in my parents house that has these. Grandma Eb's house had them. I remember that my favorite one was in the family room downstairs, for the closet door. I loved that thing.

Mia bought this puzzle for Cora last summer. I've pulled it out several times, but she wasn't ready for (or interested in) it. Today, that changed.
 Back after the door-stopper.
 I don't know what Quinn was doing here, but I LOVE this face.
 This weekend we've started talking about coloring in the lines. She kind of gets it.
She's noticeably more focused on sticking to smaller areas of the page, and when she thinks she's done a particularly good job, she wants us to come look.

That's a spool for ribbon (Cora had already used it as a canvas for her markers).

Why did we send that long list of actual toys to Santa again?

Christmas parade with Papaw Claus

Some friends came over and we walked over to the Mt Pleasant parade. All the way there, we played up Santa Claus. When the fire works kicked off the parade, Cora got spooked. I was trying to talk her back to fun...

Me: someone really important will be at the end of the parade.
Cora: Okaaay
Me: do you know who?
Cora: Papaw!!!

Friday, December 7, 2012

Mama

I was reading Cora "Alexander's terrible, horrible no good very bad day". Quinn was in Landon's lap.

As clear as day, Quinn started chanting Mama.

AND today was the day she started pulling up with ease.

It wasn't a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day afterall ;)