Oh how I L O V E my girls!!!

I think that is the only way to sum up the day, "Oh how I L O V E my girls!!!". The day started off w/ preschool... cute little grace in her fancy jeans heading off to school. It's one of the first cool fall mornings (love them - but it's a sad love b/c you know what is coming - COLD mornings, ugh!). Eva & I spent a good 30 minutes eating cereal before we had to run off and meet Matt & the landscape architect. While eating cereal, Eva who is sooo like me, spots the hat I was dying for her to wear last night - when she refused to have anything to do w/ it. She starts patting her head & pointing, so I'm like the hat? I get a nod, so I retrieve it, and shockingly she wants to wear it. When she has the hat on she grins, pulling her shoulders up w/ a look like, "see I did it - but only when I wanted too!" You have to just smile when they do things that you would have done, or heck, still would do! So after the hat routine we head upstairs to get ready. Poor Eva, either she's not used to walking in jeans or she's takes after her Mommy here too (huge - klutz!), but she's walking and the next thing I see her topple face first (like a tree falling), doesn't catch herself or anything and WHACKS her forehead on the hardwood floor. OUCH! Out come the tears, and a huge knot - later followed by a bruise... her poor nogging! If she's not falling, she's getting hit w/ a bar of soap - or something!







After meeting w/ Daddy we head out to pick up Grace & Jillian from preschool. It's so sweet b/c the minute the train of preschoolers come spilling out, Eva proudly yells, "Grace!" I carried her over to Grace, didn't want a repeat of this morning! Grace was starving when she got home so she had an early lunch, and wanted to go outside and play.... but by that point Eva wasn't on her best behavior. She got in trouble for scratching Grace for who knows what.... but when reprimanded she was so heartbroken she cried and cried, which exhausted her (or now that I think about it maybe being tired wasn't the result, but the cause) any-hoo, she fell asleep early. Grace fully planned on staying awake so when Eva woke up we could all go outside and play... but the next thing I knew when I looked over at her coloring on my bed, she was sound asleep! Guess preschool makes you tired as well as hungry:-)

After naps and a snack, we headed out back to play (finally I'm sure Grace though!).... after dinner we went for a long walk and a trip to the Playground Park. On the way back we stopped by Rick & Vickie's and both girls got a "pop-a-sickle" as Grace calls them... and happily rode home.

The topper or I should say floater of the evening arrived during bath time... on most occasions I would have just said GROSS! But the girls both though it was soooooo funny, who couldn't laugh right along w/ them! We were almost finished w/ bath #1 when I noticed a funny looking toy in the water - eick! Not a toy at all, but a floater! Ewww... Grace thought it came from a duck (when someone - aka: Daddy, lets a stinker he says, "someone stepped on a duck!"). After I fished it out, along w/ all the toys & the girls, cleaned the tub & bleached the toys we started over w/ bath #2 - the whole event would have been exhausting, but both girls giggled the entire time, so who couldn't laugh right along w/ them. So like I said, "Oh how I L O V E my girls!!!"