My kind of pet

It doesn't make a mess. It doesn't make any noise. It is never underfoot. It doesn't have to be fed.

My kind of pet:

While I didn't use my camera much, I did take an occasional picture with my phone. Not great quality, but you get the idea.

Swimming Fun

I discovered that I didn't get my camera out much the latter half of the summer. Not at all in September. I guess we were just too busy. (Or I was too sleep deprived to think about it.)

Anyway, the girls made it into one session of swim lessons.

By the end of the two weeks Ruby would actually put her head under the water and jump in without someone catching her. Cora didn't ever get very comfortable in the water. Although they both did jump off the diving board once. Their teacher caught them. The best part was the last day when they got to go down the big water slide.

Eda and Me Time

Since Ruby and Cora are in school, Eda and I have most of the day for one-on-one time now. I've tried to encourage her self-entertaining abilities. But she mostly wants to play with me. Since I can't spend all day every day playing Ring Around the Rosies and Hide-n-Seek, she has taken up helping me with whatever I happen to be doing:

Like cooking and doing laundry. It's actually kind-of fun to have one two-year-old to help with such chores. Not nearly as stressful as having two two-year-olds trying to help at once.

I am apparently not nearly as much fun as her sisters, because Eda gets very excited when they get home. The first few days of school she started asking earlier and earlier each day if she could watch for her girlies. She is getting used to the schedule finally, I think. She's not quite as clingy as she was at first. But she still does get awfully excited when the girls get home.

School Started

I just realized how long it's been since I last blogged. I'm blaming it on school. I'm blaming everything on school these days. I'd forgotten how hard school was. It's almost more than I can handle. And I'm not even the one going. :)

After a great deal of angst and difficulty on my part*, Ruby and Cora started kindergarten. Here they  were waiting for the bus the first day and getting off the bus when they got home. They wanted to ride the bus the first day, so I let them. It stressed me out more than I expected. I blame that on Jenn and her children's first day of school bus riding experience. It's not too big a deal now that I know they know where they are going. In fact, today Ray took the girls to school (it was Donuts for Dads Day) and he said they showed him all around. It was the first time he'd made it to the school.

The girls love school. They are having all sorts of fun. They get to play outside three times every day. They also get to play inside. Beyond that I'm not sure what they do, that's pretty much all I hear about.

But back to me, since we all know this is all about me, I think school is trying to kill me. Or at least completely deprive me of sleep. Eda is doing her best to assist in the sleep deprivation department. We've also already had the first school sickness come home. Oh, the joys of school. Only how many more years to go?

I LOVE school. Okay, okay, I don't love school. In fact, I don't really even like school. But the girls are enjoying it and that is what really matters. They seem to be making friends and doing quite well. So I think I'll probably be able to survive.

*If you want to know my getting the girls in school story you can ask. I'm still a little unhappy about how it all happened, but I'm getting better.

The flower girls:

and the happy couple.

She already loves a camera

and she's too cute not to share.

Five years later...

The twins with the twins, again.