MN so far....

So we have been here 7 weeks now, and time has flown by. We have seen one of our three sets of parents each weekend since we got here! It's been such a treat. We got to celebrate Papa Jeff's birthday with Boston Cream Pie and a soccer game..

Evelyn got to fish at both Little Cormorant and Little Pelican...she even baits her own hooks!

We also got to take a ride on Papa D's Harley. Vivian declared it, "Too wow'd!" :)

We got to visit with Auntie Laura and Baby Clare (who has both girls completely smitten)...we were just missing someone yet again....(Tyler!)

Vivian insists very shortly after waking up that she dress up with clothes from the dress up bin and have juice. :) If said juice isn't delivered fast enough she goes to the fridge and yells in outrage at it. ('Cause it's the fridges fault that her juice hasn't appeared.)

Evelyn has started soccer and loves it. She runs very fast and has only scored goals for the other team twice....:) Her team's name is the Columbus Crew, but the girls renamed themselves the "Yello Princesses" and they stand at the sideline and SCREAM that name during the game. "GO YELLOW PRINCESSES.....GO!!!!"

Evelyn started preschool on Tues and Thurs at a sweet little place that reminds me a lot of where she went in Indiana. She loves her teachers and her little friends. They go to chapel every Tuesday and wouldn't ya know it, but the toddlers go, too! So the girls get to see each other on the playground and at chapel. Apparently yesterday the toddlers were sitting quietly in chapel waiting for it to start, and the preschoolers walked in and Viv stood up and yelled, "Eva.....EVA....E-VA-LYNNN!" Evelyn smiled and waved, and Viv turned around and proudly announced to her class, "That's my own SISTER!"

Since I started my new job at MN School of Business, Viv has been going to school just on Tue and Thurs while I'm teaching. All that school-going can tire a baby out! She has been exhausted the past few days. She tells me when I drop her off, "I'm gonna cwwy and cwwy for you!" Hopefully that will get a little better. The very first day she went she had so much fun. Miss Mel (the toddler room teacher) told me she talked the entire day including tell a boy who had pooped in his pants, "Pee-uuu. That's gwwosss." That's helpful, Viv. Didn't you just poop in your pants that day, too? :)

We have gone to a number of garage sales in the last few Fridays for lack of anything else to do, and this little carriage has been the #1 hit! I almost didn't buy it because I thought it might be asking for trouble, but they have shared it so well. It came with a doll and little eyelet lace and pink ribboned sheets and blanket and was only $3.

Well, the ladies are emerging from naptime, and that means it's time to get ready to go see another house. Hopefully it will be "the one". Viv is already calling from her crib, "need some juice and dwwess-up cwothes, Mimi!!!"