If you feed/hug/love them, they will grow

(er, um, this post was brought to you by August, 2012 and a few edits since then. I'mma gonna post it and add pix later!)

Wow, so it's been awhile. woopsidoodliodoo! My theme these past few posts, eh?
Anyway, on to the important stuff: what have the girls been up to? Well, I am happy to say they are BOTH showing a good appetite. That may not sound weird to most of you, but we have had our issues in the past not with the type of foods chosen my ME, but rather her decisions to just...not eat much at all.
Hilarilously enough, school officials state "but E is our BEST eater!!" That's because, apparently, no one else eats the vegetables and E just goes to town on them. Now, tho, she is like any other 4 year old, eating more when she's hungry, and getting dessert for doing so. Yay us! And she is sprouting away like a beanstalk.

Where E is learning how to do the neatio-est things on the trampoline we got her (big enough for us to join in), A has gone from rolling over, to really really rolling over, to sitting up, to bridging to now alllllllllllllmost crawling. A manages to scoot around, making clean spots on the floor by first drooling in front, then rubbing with her belly. It's like an opposite trail of slime that one can find with bugs (forgot the type). She has been focused on pulling up on ev.ery.thing to the point of squeals when she is denied her current Everests.

Emelia has learned all about butterflies, their life cycles and stuff, to flowers growing, to naming things she sees in the clouds, to ---ooooooooooo get this!!--SHE IS READING. Yes, folks, this is so friggin coolbeans. Teh weirdness of the English language makes hurdles that cannot be sounded out, but for many words she is getting the idea down. D and I are super excited about this, as is she.

Alexia, well, she has discovered her tongue and its ability to poke out ALL the time. She is also a laugh track for whatever her hero, Big Sister, is doing. Her laugh is not quite the genteel giggle, more like a hurr hurr hurr. Which is hilarious in its own right.

We've gone back to Michigan a few more times than normal, and both girls seem to love to trash out Gram and Pop-Pop's house. We are like a tornado of drool and footprints! I also do a lot of laundry. Emelia has had a blast with discovering nature with Gram and destroying the grass with both her Daddy and Pop-Pop on the Gator (to her chagrin, she does not get to drive it yet). She can tell you about hummingbirds, and tree frogs, and moths, and Corky. I had a guided tour of Gram's garden as well, and we learned how to avoid nasty "squirrel mushrooms" (my idea as she's suddenly agreed to eat the "kitchen mushrooms". Tragic, I know).

We have taken advantage of the uber sticky summer to visit Chase Pool a lot. We keep trying to meet up with friends and their lovely kids (Sahana and Rehan) but it's hard since we are on opposite schedules it seems. E is jumping into the pool now as well as letting go with one deathgrip at a time to try to get her in a swimming-type motion. Her fear remains overall and we will keep working on it. Meanwhile, A thinks water is sooooooooper and tries to smash it with delight.
Did I mention biking?? E is getting so much better at it, even though we took off a couple months as it was too hot. So relearning it now. She has also mastered the swing and can do it all by herself!!

In the hopes of finally publishing this and updating sooner, I'll stop here!
hugs, love, zerbertz xo