Emily pulls herself up!

Today started out a little earlier than usual because Haley woke up around 7:15.  It's actually a miracle that she didn't wake up earlier than that because she woke up wet with pee because someone forgot to put a pull-up on her before bed.  I had a MOPS organizational meeting at 9:30 and I had to go early to make some copies so I decided to just start my morning early.  Haley was a little loud so Emily was awake by 8 and David got them breakfast.  He had to work today but didn't have to leave until 8:45.  The early wake-up time actually helped because we ended up getting out the door in plenty of time.

Emily and Haley were in the same class so I dropped them off together and then went to my meeting.  Emily still doesn't have any separation anxiety, she'll go to anyone.  I told them that she might be tired and when I went to pick them up she was sleeping in the baby room.  She woke up as people started picking up her kids so I went and grabbed her.  There was another kid in there zonked out in a swing.  My friend Amy had invited all of MOPS steering team to her in-laws house to swim and eat lunch.  Those of us who went packed lunches and swimsuits and we went there right after the meeting.

Amy's in-laws have a gorgeous pool, I really should have taken a picture.  First off, it's huge.  It has a diving board, hot tub, slide (not a plastic cheap one, a big one that's built into the side of a stone wall thing, hard to explain), waterfall, and a shallow part for babies to play.  It really is the perfect pool for all ages.  We decided to swim before we ate because Haley was too excited to focus on eating.  However, I don't know if she was quite as excited as Emily was.  As soon as I put Emily in the pool she started flailing her arms and legs and doing a kind of shriek-laugh that she does.  I sat with her for a while in the baby part and then eventually I put her in an infant floatie and she spent a lot of the time in that.

Haley also actually spent a lot of time with that infant floatie.  She held onto the edge of it and I pulled them around.  Haley did pretty well kicking along as she held onto the floatie, I think she may be a good swimmer like her daddy!  Haley also liked to jump off the edge to me.  I let her go under water when she jumped to get her used to that, she didn't seem to mind.  Another mom was there with her little boy who is about four months older than Haley.  I don't think he went in past his ankles.

We headed out after 1 and the kids were in bed for naps by 2.  Haley said she was hungry and I told her I would give her a snack when she woke up and she seemed okay with that.  She seemed okay, but apparently her hungry tummy kept her awake because she sat in her bed and talked and sang for an hour!  She kept singing the Doxology over and over.  Finally I went in there and gave her a tortilla (strange but true) and she ate some of that and then fell asleep.  She woke up with some dry gross tortillas in her bed but whatever.  Emily woke up at 4:45 and I let her talk and play in her crib until she woke up Haley.  David was home then so he played with the girls while I posted more stuff online to sell.  I sold a TV tray today for $6 which puts our total up to $64 and I am going to meet someone at Kroger to give them a random table for $15 which will put us up to $79.  Sadly this is a dollar short of what David makes in 2 hours of flight instructing, haha.

We fed the girls an applesauce snack and then headed to the gym at 5:30.  David and I ran outside and then did some weights and stretches inside.  When we went to pick up the girls Emily saw us and immediately started crying.  It was kind of sweet, I think she was tired.  We went home and ate dinner right away.  Then we realized that we needed some light bulbs and duct tape so we made a quick trip to Wal-mart.  It worked out that we did because then Haley and Emily got to have some dessert.  We went to the bakery area and the lady gave us four cookies!  Haley gave one to Emily and polished off the rest.  Maybe she shouldn't have given any to Emily because after a couple minutes Emily looked like this:

Yucky baby

She is a mess

After Wal-mart we came home and played with the girls in the den.  Well, Daddy played with them by himself at first because I was selling some Christmas ornaments online, haha, another $10!  Then Haley helped me fold some laundry while singing a thousand verses of 'Wheels on the Bus.'  When Haley gets a song stunk in her head, it is in there for a long time.  Finally around 9:15 we realized that it was 9:15!  We put the girls in their pajamas and put them to bed and they went right down.  They were just playing so nicely that we didn't think about what time it was.

Haleyism:

Haley was helping me carry laundry to her room and as I was putting it away she told me that she was going to go get more laundry.  I said okay and she hurried off.  About thirty seconds later she came back into the room and yelled 'Just kidding!'  

Emilyism:
Emily pulls up on stuff!  David kept telling me that she could pull up because she pulls up on him but I kind of thought he must be helping her.  However, tonight she pulled up on the laundry basket, no assistance needed.

This girl can pull herself up, and eat clothes!

Digging in the laundry basket.  See if you can find Haley in there.  I'll give you a hint, she had just climbed in and the skin part is her lower leg and foot.

Emily's fingernails get so sharp even though David cuts them all the time.  Tonight he filed them to see if that would help, it didn't really.

She likes to watch, I couldn't get her to look up at me!

Finally she peeled her eyes away