Sunday Funday

I adore sweet baby girls wearing blue...

I wish I could take their picture every Sunday in their church dresses...but most Sundays we're barely getting out the door on time (usually 20 minutes late really) and by the time we get home, they are both hungry and tired...so unless I can come up with a really great bribe, it doesn't happen.  Today a couple of quick pics on my phone, after church, sans shoes, plus wrinkled, drooled on Libby Kate dress was the best I could get.  But I still think they're gorgeous!

After church, lunch and Libby Kate's nap, we went outside to play for a while.  It's been gorgeous the last few weeks, in between crazy cold fronts (it's almost May...and still randomly getting into the 30s and 40s at night once a week or so!)

Libby Kate hates grass under her feet.  It's like she is completely frozen if set down in grass.  She will NOT take a step or move an inch, but just stands there and cries out MAD!  I can put her on a blanket in the middle of the yard, and it's as though she's on a deserted island.  She will stand at the edge of the blanket and just scream, because no matter how bad she wants off the blanket, it's not worth touching the grass over!

Love these sweaty sisters!  Mer could play outside for hours.  Really, Libby Kate could too, but Mer really, really could.  She is happy to run circles around the patio, play in the sandbox, and throw the ball for the dogs.  Libby walks all over the patio, and covets the toys in the sandbox.  She is welcome to play with them, but she has a major dislike for sand (just like grass), so it's just not worth it to actually reach for a toy.  Instead she just watches them, squats down next to them, leans in and talks to them...but never, ever, dares to reach for one!

After some play time outside, I rinsed them off and we headed out to Haslet to look through Mer's old clothes for some shoes for Libby.  Before we left, Brian was feeding Libby Kate some yogurt.  We always point out the baby on the yogurt container and say "Baby.  See the baby, Libby Kate?"  Today, Brian got Libby Kate to say "baby!"  She would even point to the yogurt and say "ba-bah!"  I was able to get her to repeat it several times for me, too!

On the way back, Mer was trying to tell us something, but Libby kept squealing at her every time she'd start to talk.  She would turn to Libby and say, "Libby Kate, please stop unrupping me!  OK, I will start over, AGAIN!"  This went on several times, but once she finally got to tell her story, she turned to Libby again and says, "Ok, Libby Kate, now it's your turn, please do not unrup me like that again though!"

Tonight I was reading about Lilo and Stitch to Mer, and she asked what Stitch was.  I told her he's an alien and she said, "Oh he's cute.  He looks like the chihuahua Grandpa gave me."  I was confused, because I didn't remember him ever giving her a chihuahua, but I let it go and kept reading.  She stopped me and says, "chihuahuas are so cute, Mommy.  They're just adorable with their big ears and climb up the trees to eat the bamboo."  And then it clicked...she meant a KOALA, not a CHIHUAHUA!!