A Full Week!

We often tell "Once upon a time stories" when we are with the girls. The stories are always about two little girls named Claire and Chloe. We usually somehow incorporate into the story their phone number and address. Here Chloe was beginning to tell me a "Once upon a time" story. When I asked her the name of the street they lived on at first she said, "I don't know" but then she quickly responded with "Oleander, California"...if you listen carefully, you can pick that up. Then, she tells me, "Someone's at the door". End of story.

Chloe refers to her doll as her sister. She says she is "holding her sister" responding to Claire's "What's going on?" and Claire discovers her helmet.

Claire with her bike helmet.

Bracelets work as earrings too!

The girls were sure Papa should be coming. Here they are having a look, just to make sure, and also checking out the rain.

We sing "Good Morning Merry Sunshine" often. Claire and I were trying to work on getting the sun out on this, another rainy day. Shortly after we sang, we went to the Mall to get out of the house and get some exercise. The girls enjoyed the Mall toys shown below, even without putting coins in them to make them go. They walked the full length of the Mall and back, with a mission to get some new rain boots. We were not successful that day, but not because Chloe didn't try hard to find some. She asked a lady who had stopped to chat with them if she had any rain boots and then walked up to a jewelry kiosk and asked a young man if he had any rain boots. I was able to find boots the following day but Claire and Chloe were not along. When we dropped them off you would have thought we had brought a boatload of candy. They were so excited to get them.

Mommy went to Costco and the fun came after, when Claire and Chloe enjoyed the box.
Even though Claire weighs a bit more than Chloe, she somehow convinced Chloe that she needed to be the rider most of the time.

Enjoying curly noodles "just like Claire's hair" for lunch.

Below you see the girls loaded up for a weekend trip to Oregon. They had talked all week about seeing the ocean and building sand castles. We had offered to keep the girls so that Mommy & Daddy could get away, but Mike's response was, "Oh no, Mom, the girls haven't seen the Redwoods." :) Hopefully they are putting their boots to good use and having a wonderful time as a family.