The countdown begins

THERE ARE 21 DAYS UNTIL SUMMER VACATION! Believe me ... I am screaming that while I type it!  I can not wait to be home with the girls this summer.  Now that we have the swingset built and the warm nights are here, I have been getting glimpses of simpler nights ahead.  Tonight we just played outside, ate a quick light dinner and had popsicles.  It was perfect.  Some little snip-its from the girls I thought you would all like:

Julia has a new trick that she and Daddy have been working on ... Daddy says "tongue" and she sticks out her tongue, Daddy says "eyes" and she closes/squints her eyes, and Daddy says point to your nose and she takes a big grand arm shake and one finger point to her nose. It's so adorable.

She's also very chatty these days.  Talking in full jibber jabber sentences with quite the assertive tone --- AAAHHHHGAAA TA TA TAH! And a forceful "MINE" when ever she sees something that she wants.  Especially when she wants Emma's favorite blankie!  Julia will settle for her own Mrs. Pink blankie if there is no sight of Emma's Mr. Green blankie but if that dirty ratty Mr. Green is near she just about knocks down anything in her way to get to it.  It's so funny.

And the sweetest thing tonight: Emma says in a sassy voice to her popsicle "My Mommy is so cool".  WHAT???? How old is she????  Nevertheless, I will take the compliment.

Also, we've decided to start Emma in pre-school in the Fall.  After a tossing the idea around over the past month (first based on Emma fighting us some days to go to daycare, then on her telling us she wants to go to school -- guess you have to follow your kids lead sometimes huh?!), we decided to try 2 mornings per week.  I think that will be a good introduction and then if she seems to need more we can increase it in the winter.