Update

Ok, I will confess, we haven't been doing a great job at getting pictures these days, so posts have slowed down due to that, but also because these ladies absolutely exhaust me!!! So, I'll give you a boring written update!

I've been blessed with great sleepers still. Even with their big girl beds, they go to sleep around 7 or 7:30, after having their 15 minutes of chill/reading/play time before lights out!! They are getting up around 7ish, at which time we all converge to the couch to watch some cartoons before mom wakes up enough to get breakfast.

Things they love: doing everything on their own, Dora, brushing teeth, naked time (they, mostly Emma, will not leave their clothes on now that they have figured out how to take it all off), dancing, helping mom in the kitchen, playing with Josie, baths, kissing boo boos, Emma and her tea party's, Ella and her potty time (seriously 15 times in two hours, I go with it at this point!!), jumping on their beds, Ella closing doors, Emma wearing her tutu (pretty much non-stop at home), and answering the phone.

Things they hate: when we don't have time for them to buckle themselves into their car seats, when they can't have a bite of whatever anyone is eating, Emma doesn't like it when Ella acts like mom and tells her she can't do something (for ex. Ella pointing to Emma's hand showing me she has marker on her hand, when Ella had the same thing and I was asking Ella why she had marker on her hand!!), and when mom or dad leave and they can't come.

My favorites of late: getting them up from nap only to find that Emma went big potty and tried to "change her own diaper" (I spent the next 20 minutes scrubbing the floor and washing every single blanket, pillow, sheet and animal in their room!!), saying "good night Ella" and hearing "Night, night mommy!" or "Bye bye mommy!", watching Emma "shake it" or her having her little tea party and feeding her baby, Ella's facial expressions which are more mature than should be for her age, hearing them sing songs, and hearing their adorable giggle when they play together!!