Macy's new trick

She can find the button herself.

Mobile Macy

For a while, we could count on Macy staying put. Camy was moving, but Macy would just "swim" in place. We now have two mobile children. This fact was underscored for me when I took them to the park. While on the blankets, Camy scooted over to the edge of the grass and started double-fisting grass into her mouth. By the time I accosted Camy, cleaned the grass out of her hands, fished the clovers out of her mouth and put her in the middle of the blanket, Macy was on the other end of the blanket uprooting grass to eat. Macy back in the middle found Camy back at the edge speed grazing. Camy back, Macy out. Macy back, Camy out. After the third iteration, I realized I was outnumbered. We went for the swings. Here is a video of Macy's first scoots - not as aerobatic as Camy, more efficient and low profile:

The other behavior that has developed recently is the girls will now crawl into our laps when we are sitting on the floor. It's endearing.

tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse

John's been doing all the posting lately. For the past month I've spent my spare minutes helping people with finances, putting together a baby shower, trying to make progress on the home improvement, and enjoying going out as much as possible. Last week, though, it seemed like we had an unusual amount of.... stuff that reminded me of the title of this post (tr.=Everything passes, everything wears out, everything breaks.).

Camy cut tooth #7. She just started sleeping at night again.

Macy is working on teeth #4 and 5. They both like biting our knees and shoulders.

Macy discovered cookies (new family rule: No food in the car or car seats)

The garage door bit the top of our car (added emphasis on existing family rule: No playing Indiana Jones while driving)

In addition to the ants everyone else has, we had a visitor with 6 legs and a body over an inch long. John was working late, so I saved the day- half the bug almost escaped. (Sorry, Kate. No picture)

The GPS fell off the window.

After a miserable trip to the store, we got in the car to find we had only 3 of the 4 ridiculously expensive shoes that we started the trip with.

All in all, not a bad week.

Rule #3: Don't feed them after midnight

Many years ago, before John and I were married, we would drive 3 hours each way to visit each other. After a long drive John would be very tired, and I learned that when John is very tired he says crazy things. It's been a while, but last night we had a great chat. (John has been playing a lot of board games and reading about GM)

J: I'm worried we are going to end up on a dead end in the board. With three people, one of them should know where the dead ends are.

E: Yeah, why's that?

J: I don't know. It seems like once you have three pegs, though, you should be able to triangulate.

E: And we have four pegs!

J: Yeah, three pink ones. One thing the game of life teaches is that it's easier to have a station wagon from the start. I mean, before you even start college, you've already got a station wagon. And a convertible one! No one even makes convertible station wagons. GM should have thought of that. They made cup holders.

E:Yeah, maybe GM wouldn't be in so much trouble.

J: Yeah, convertible station wagons for everyone once you finish high school. I don't think a station wagon would fit in our garage though.

E: True.