the sort-of snow angel and other stuff

Well, not much has been going on with us...just dying for spring to get here so we can play outside! We missed the good snow here last weekend because we were in Huntsville at my parents' house. We got a little bit there, but only enough to cover the deck and dust the grass. Lilly was dying to make a snow angel, so she had to try it on the deck. I just thought it was a funny picture of her. Mamie has been making some of the funniest faces, but I can't ever catch them with my camera. She's getting quite a personality and is into everything right now--her favorite things to do include: playing in the potty when it's accidentally left open, getting into her sister's play make-up or chapstick and eating it/smearing it everywhere, getting boxes of crackers or cookies out of the pantry and digging into them, climbing up onto her sister's bed, and pulling all 200 books off of Lilly's bookshelf. I get panicky when it gets too quiet--she's usually up to something she's not supposed to be doing. I make her sound like she's bad, but she actually minds so well--all I have to do is tell her "no" and she gets her feelings hurt.

My parents' house backs up to a land trust so the woods go on forever behind their house. I took Lilly "hiking" one day. I don't think we'll be taking her camping any time soon. This is how our walk went:

Lilly: "Let's go back to the house, Mommy."

Me: "Isn't this fun? Look, a snail shell! Do you want to take it home with you?"

Lilly: "No thank you mommy. Let's go back to the house. I think there might be wolves."

Mamie and Pop spent lots of time swinging

Mamie trying her best to sneak up on Scole. You can tell she's concentrating with that tongue out. Once in a while he lets her jump on him and sit on him like she's riding a horse. We'll never get another dog that will put up with the things he puts up with--sweet boy.

I had to have this documented. Mamie has been doing this for a couple of months now. She climbs up on Lilly's bed all the time and just rolls around on the pillows laughing, or Lilly gets up there with her and jumps. (Probably really safe...my next post will probably be about a trip to the emergency room from falling off of the bed.) She just works so hard at getting up there.

Success! (and look at the curls)

I just love her in a nightgown. She's trying to get Lilly's pez.

This is her laughing face. She scrunches up her whole face and shows those two hippo teeth.