6 on Sunday

Once again, we were very busy on Friday and I didn't get a chance to do my 5 on Friday post.  To make up for being late, I'll make it 6 on Sunday!

Here are 6 reasons I'm loving my girls this week:
1.  There is a mirror on the wall where Maggie's changing table is.  She likes to stand and look at herself in the mirror.  This week she and Campbell were both looking at themselves and playing in the mirror.  Then Maggie leaned forward and gave herself a kiss.  So cute!

2.  Campbell has been making up her own songs lately.  They have been about lots of different topics: Little Einsteins, chocolate, grass, etc.  My favorite is what she has entitled "The Chocolate Song" and it goes a little like this:
"The chocolate song, the chocolate song,
ooooh, ooooh,
the chocolate song, the chocolate song,
lalalala,
the chocolate song, the chocolaaaaaate soooooooong!"

I think we have the next Mozart, don't you?


3.  Maggie loves to wave and it is so cute when she does it because her hand kind of flops around.  She waves to get attention, to say hi and bye, and in response when someone waves to her.  We went to breakfast last weekend and Robbie carried her across the restaurant to ask the waitress something.  As he was talking, she was staring at our table and waving her hand as hard as she could!

4.  Campbell has entered the dreaded phase of "why?"
Here is our conversation from this morning:
"Mommy, why are we stopping for gas?"
"Because our car needs gas."
"Why does the car needs gas?"
"Because it needs it to go."
"Why?"
"Well, it's kind of like when people are hungry, we eat food.  Cars need gas like people need food."
"Why do people need food?"
"Well, we need food so we don't get too hungry and so we keep going."
"Why do we get hungry?"

We had similar conversations today about Maggie's sickness (she has a cold this weekend), riding bikes, and why we wear shoes.

I'm exhausted.

5.  Maggie started pulling up on everything today, including her crib.  This may be something I don't love in the weeks to come seeing as she's not very good at getting back down yet, but for now I'm celebrating a new milestone she's mastered.

6.  One of my favorite times of the day is right around 10:00 at night when I go into the girls' rooms one last time to cover them up, check on them, etc.  I love looking at their sweet sleeping faces and often am overcome with the miracles that we have been blessed with.

Oh and a bonus picture from our 10 month photo shoot just because it made me giggle:

The days of easy picture-taking are over...