here are my girlies near the dog toys behind the chair--i don't know why my cropped version of this photo didn't show. i am starving, but every time i attempt to sneak downstairs, a girly puts a stop to it. so how to come back up with two girls and the bowl of hot pasta i want? i guess i'll have to bribe them with a snack in the high chair while i eat standing up. (a difficult life, i know.) if i were to leave them locked in the playroom, though, they'd scream they whole time i was gone.

my girls are so smart! they love to participate in the tactile type books we have. they destroyed pat the bunny, but they could listen to fuzzy fuzzy fuzzy all day. and they are starting to sign. just a few minutes ago, lena did the sign for milk perfectly as i was nursing them! it seems like a hard one because it's so similar to so many signs (like a wave for hi or bye and the sign for light). lena was trying to do duck in the bathtub last night, and trying to say it too, i think. and she can do all done when she's all done with a meal--it's a one-handed wide wave. and i'm pretty sure nico's clapping sometimes means more (and aren't the concepts similar? when you say "yay" don't you often want more?). and they want to say daddy; they're working a lot on the "duh" sound. they say "dada" and "mama," of course, but it's still generally indiscrinimate, i think. nico says "mama" a lot though:).

nico's getting no sleep with her top two teeth coming in:(.

lena is trying to climb the stairs so i must go!