Great Book

I just finished reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. I LOVED this book. I highly recommend it. Very highly. I wish it went on, or had a sequel. It is that good.

Mommy's Little Helpers

They love to sweep. And I just might encourage such behavior.
Really I just hope it lasts long enough for them to actually be helpful. Having their own brooms means they don't want mine, but they do want to sweep the EXACT same spot I am sweeping.

Today, while I was getting something else out of the broom closet, Ruby spotted her broom. She got her broom, then handed Cora a broom, then went back in to grab my broom for me. So we swept. My floors have never been swept so often. :-)

Lookin' at the world in 3D

Thanks for the picture, Ethne.

Inevitably...

the day I forget to comb my hair, and once I remember decide it is not important, is the one day in over two and a half years that my husband randomly brings a friend home for lunch.

Raisins, anyone?

Cousins

Cora, Ruby, Kayla, and Alicia
From a week or two ago when we visited Kristy and Cody. The girls all got along very well. My girls loved having lots of different toys to play with. Kayla did a great job of sharing her toys. I was impressed.

Haven't you always wanted a monkey?*

The girls were reading to their monkeys.
My mom gave these monkeys to the girls before the girls were old enough to appreciate them. That has certainly changed. Cora is very attached to the monkeys (along with all the other stuffed animals in the house).

Random side note: in the last picture you can see the picture of a dog in the book Cora is reading. When I read that book to the girls I make the animal sounds. Now, when looking at the dog picture, Cora tries to say, "Woof, woof." Only it sounds more like, "Oot, oot." She also sometimes snorts while reading this book, but not just on the pig page.

*Bonus: what is the reference?