5 on Friday

It's been a while since my last 5 on Friday post due to our fun, busy summer!

 Here are 5 reasons I'm loving my girls this week:
1.  Maggie is doing really great with her potty training.  She cracks me up when she's on the potty because she'll put her finger to her lips and say "Shhh...listen" like she's about to do something really special and important.  I have been trying to get a picture or video of this, but she refuses to do it on camera...

2.  The girls and I met my friend, Anna, and her two boys, Hampton and Daniel for our annual trip to Edventure.  Anna and I were in the same sorority in college and it's always so nice to get to spend some time with her.  Campbell and Hampton look like twins with their blond hair and I think that Maggie and Daniel will look alike also as he has darker hair with a bit of curl.

The kids had a great time pretending to be newscasters, dressing up like firefighters and playing on a firetruck, playing drums against a green screen and watching themselves on TV playing with an African drum, and checking out the butterflies in the butterfly exhibit.

3.  The girls love their bubble machine...they must taste good, too!

4.  Robbie has been waiting for 4 years for Campbell to be able to play with him on the Wii and finally this summer she's starting to get good.  Her favorite is the sword fighting and she beats him a lot of the time!

Check out that serious face!

Celebrating her win

5.  Campbell and I have been doing a few reading activities during Maggie's naptime.  Most of the activities are ones I brought home from my classroom and involve word families and initial consonant sounds.  I'm always amazed at how quickly Campbell understands an activity and masters it.  This activity is one with a set of cards with different letters and corresponding sets of pictures of items with the initial consonant sounds.  We did this activity only once because she mastered it on the first try.