July 1st? Can't be!

I can't believe tomorrow is July 1st. June just flew by with us in OH for two weeks. We had such a nice time but we all missed Daddy quite a bit. But now we're back and R- is home for four days so we can get back in the swing of things. I got sick on Wed before R- left and felt bad all day, took a two hour nap, mustered energy to cook baked spaghetti that we ate while he was on his trip, then crashed at 7:30. R- got both girls to bed successfully and I slept off and on for 12 hours. Chills, fever, sweaty, coughing - I was a mess. R- left for DUS Thursday morning and the girls and I went into survival mode, just hanging out on A-'s bed and reading books all morning. S- wasn't home to play with but A- held up pretty well with just Mommy and G- to hang out with.

We're still having thunderstorms and rain pretty much every day. Very strange and makes for humid 90F days but we haven't had to water the lawn yet this summer. Usually we've started $100+ water bills by now.

A- got to play with S- the last two days. They play together so nicely, it's wonderful to see. They're both sweet girls and even include G- (most of the time). When I was tutoring in May, they were playing outside and through the open window I could hear them saying "What's gonna work, teamwork" (from WonderPets) and helping G- get up onto the slide so she could slide down. What cuties. S- came over today in shorts and a shirt and fairy wings. Gotta love this age when that seems like a perfectly normal thing to wear to a friend's house. It won't be long before they worry about what people think about them.

We did some errands this morning and stopped at Dollar General and got candy (amazingly they didn't have the kid's blowdryer S- got in Disneyland ;-) ) and A- didn't want to eat her Fun Dip because she wanted to wait until she could share it with S-. I told her S- wouldn't mind, she'd like any of the flavors but A- was insistent.

More cute A- stories: R- helped her get dressed the other morning (which consists of standing there while she asks you what you think she should wear and then her completely ignoring your input) and when I got up (Wed. morning when I was sick, usually I'm up first) she told me "Look mom, I'm wearing Capri Suns" known to the rest of us as Capri pants. And today she told me "We're both wearing Capri Suns". Reminds me of when she was learning to talk and she would want her "ooshies" also known as shoes. I remember at the time thinking I wanted her to learn to speak correctly of course, but it's so darn cute when little kids say thing wrong sometimes you're tempted to reinforce it by calling shoes "ooshies" yourself!

And little G- communicates so much with so few words. She can tell you she wants her shoes (points to her feet and grunts), she wants her hat (pats her head), she wants food or sometimes drink (points to her mouth), and she has many variations of head nods and shakes for yes and no, emphatic yes and no, mean yes and no (it's all in the look in her eye). She also says "mor, mor" (more) and "nur, nur" (nurse) with accompanying signs. In the bathtub tonight, she wanted me to run more water in the faucet when I was trying to get her to finish and she walked to the faucet, said "mor, mor" and I told her no so she dropped her bath toys and pointed to the faucet and said "mor, mor" while doing the sign for more just in case I didn't get it the first time. The look on her face when she's trying to communicate is so funny, a combination of concentration and "what kind of idiot are you?".