July 31, 2008

Two bonus pictures from after Dad's return.

Grace clambered up into the chair to read this way before breakfast and it brought me back to many of my own childhood days spent reading in all kinds of contortions. She makes me smile.

Suki. Determined to have goldfish for breakfast.

Kate is fascinated by Grace.

Yummy! As you can see from this study in orange, Suki got her way about the goldfish.

The way Kate looks when she's hoping you'll pick her up.

Ready to head out to the library.

Turned around to get in the car.

Gathered around Kate's car seat.

My little bitty pretty one.

With a half smile.

Grace loves that she's allowed to play with the library's gorilla. She arrived (literally) a minute before a little boy who also loved the gorilla. I was so proud of the way Grace took turns with him.

Kate's nap at the library. Not a total success.

The monkey loving boy and Suki. She thought this crate was a lot of fun until she realized she couldn't easily get out.

By the by, today marked the first time I threatened to leave a place unless certain behavior was changed AND IT DIDN'T CHANGE (ahem, Suki.) So only 45 minutes after we arrived at the library, we were on our way home.

Finally finding her nap.

You'd never guess this smiling girl had been running and screaming through a library just a few minutes before.

Readying her block stack.

Unasked, Grace sat down and started to read her sock monkey book to Kate. It warms my heart.

Suki takes an interest.

She just loves to play with Kate. We have to keep an eye on her because somehow Suki's got it into her head that she can sit in Kate's lap. I guess technically she can, but it's an alarming thing to see.

Kate is all smiles for her sister.

Such wonderful girls.