MARKERS!!!

John was on the couch and the girls were both sitting on the love seat together this afternoon, all watching a movie. The love seat is to the side and slightly behind John ... all it took was a few minutes of John not paying attention and when he turned, he saw this!

Look at that BELLY!!

Can you believe Reagan colored her whole foot blue?

John's cousin Nereyda was in town from Florida, so she came over to visit ... I found it rather ironic that the girls chose to color themselves in markers for the first time on the evening we were having a visitor, someone who we see once a year! Oh well ~ I actually thought it was quite funny. John was rather upset about it when it first happened ... when I called him on my way home from work, he was worked up about it, since he felt that Reagan knew better. I was anxious to get home and snap pictures of it!!

I couldn't believe how BLUE the water in the tub got! I tried taking pictures of it, but it was difficult to get a good picture that showed the true color of the water while not exposing any body parts of my girls!

Reagan and Avery hate it when I wash their hair, so I've made a game out of it: I massage the shampoo into their hair until there are lots of thick, white suds. Then I form a fist, sort of like I'm holding an ice cream cone. Then I put a big blob of bubbles/suds on top of my fist and pretend I'm licking a vanilla ice cream cone. It's so silly, but Reagan thinks it's fun and now Avery loves to do it too. I was worried Avery would actually eat the bubbles, but she's always been great at just pretending to lick the bubbles. May seem like a silly story to blog about, but I'm sure I'll read this 10 years from now and think, "Oh yeah, I'd forgotten we used to do that!"

First Bath Together

Last Sunday (03/02/08), Reagan and Avery took their first bath together ... Avery was exactly 4 months old on that day. She couldn't take her eyes off her big sister, who was splashing around, having a great time. By the way, the purple circle in Reagan's mouth is her chewable vitamin that she chooses to suck on ... we give it to her before her bath, since it takes a long time to finish it each night.

Since her very first one, Avery has LOVED taking baths! Reagan used to cry when we bathed her as a baby, but maybe that was just because we didn't know what we were doing back then :)
I took this picture mid-splash, so you can see the drops of water in the air! (if you click on the picture, it should come up bigger in the full screen)

Pruned Fingers

I wondered when it would happen and tonight it finally did. Reagan, now 25 months old, got out of the bathtub and stared at her wrinkled little fingers. She looked from one hand to the other, not saying a word, just studying something she'd never seen or noticed before. I was the quiet observer, wishing I could tap into her little brain to know what she was thinking. After giving her some time to contemplate the changed appearance of her fingers, I did my best to explain that all fingers look like prunes after being in the water. I tried to reassure her that it happens to everyone, even Mama. As I finished the rest of the bedtime routine, she continued to look at her fingers and repeat what I had told her, saying over and over "it happens." She was satisfied with an explanation as simple as that: it just happens.