On the homefront, however, the transition has not been quite as easy. The girls are now going to daycare (although I like to call it "school"...it sounds better that way, somehow) three days a week, and then to each of their grandparents for one day. They really like their school (and so do we), they enjoy being with the other kids and participating in all of the fun activities that they do and they like their teachers. Naptime, however, is (so far) a HUGE problem. This summer, the girls were still taking two naps most days, and sleeping between 2 and 3 hours cumulative with those naps. At school, they take only one nap and average about 10 - 15 minutes. Which makes for some CRANKY and CLINGY girls in the evening. They are utterly exhausted by the time we get them in the evening with the usual routine going: get home about 4:15, cry for a half hour to forty-five minutes, eat dinner (while fussing), cry for another half-hour, go to bed around 6:00.
I certainly hope they get the hang of this soon (its sorta driving me crazy).
Other than getting WAAAAY too little sleep, the girls have been busy growing into real, little girls. Talking more and more every day...its so much fun to hear them actually tell us what is going on in their little heads. And, they are getting so good at using their imaginations, too. They will often take their snack (goldfish, cheerios, etc) and pour it into the tiny frying pan that goes with their little kitchen and then "cook" it in their microwave or stove, announce that it is "DONE!!!" and then blow on it before they eat it because its is too "hot".
Here's some documentation as to what else they've been doing lately:
Picking out their own clothes:
In the above photo Evaline insisted on wearing pants with her dress. She's also playing her favorite game "bye-bye". Where she gets her purse (one of my old ones) loads it with her toy cell phone, keys and dog and gives everyone a hug, kiss and wave bye-bye and runs out of the room, only to come back seconds later rolling with laughter because she tricked all of us.
Here they are helping with household chores. They LOVE to clean - whether it is vacuuming, dusting, throwing away trash and even - yes this is true - putting their toys away when they are done! This little mini-vac that we got to vacuum the stairs fits them perfectly.
The night after their second day of "school" they both caught the flu...poor little ladies...
Cora desperately wants doll stroller (she's getting one for her birthday...but shhhhhhhh! don't tell!). Since we don't have one yet, she's used her ingenuity and creativity (which she gets from her mom and dad) to create her own...what a clever gal! Although, as soon as Evaline saw this, the fights began...alas, we only have one...
You may have noticed that the pictures here are a little Cora-heavy. It's been that way for awhile, I think. Evaline has been boycotting the camera. Here we asked Cora to go and catch Evaline for a picture...look at her hamming it up!
