5 on Friday

I know, I know...slack blogger here.  I'm going to try to be better, I promise! It's so hard once we're back in school and busy.  My time is taken up with spending time with the girls and trying to keep our household running.

But, at long last, here are 5 reasons I'm loving my girls this week:

1. Maggie is so, so sassy.  No wait, that's not it.  Sorry, I got distracted and accidentally typed that.  Maggie has such a sweet and caring spirit.  One night Campbell had a bad dream and woke up crying.  When I was trying to soothe her back to sleep, Maggie sat straight up in bed and asked in a very alarmed tone "Hambell otay?!"  Translation: "Is Campbell ok?"  It was so heart-warming to see how worried she was about her big sister.

2.  Campbell's teacher pulled me aside yesterday morning to tell me that she must have inherited my special ed teacher's heart. There is a little boy in her class with special needs and apparently she has be-friended him and makes sure to include him in classroom activities. Wednesday they were playing a group game and had to pass an item to a friend and she passed it to him when even the teacher wasn't sure he would/could participate. I'm so glad she sees what he can do rather than what he can't do! 

3. Maggie is so smart and a great problem solver.  She helps me check the mail every day and has to struggle to reach the mailbox.  She recently was walking down the driveway towards the mailbox and turned around and went back to the garage.  She picked up a step stool that she had been using as a jumping platform the day before and carried it to the mailbox, set it down, and used it to help her get the mail.  Pretty ingenious, huh?

4.   Campbell's new favorite activity is for her daddy to roll her up in a blanket like a burrito.  Reminds me of swaddling her when she was a baby except we are using a much bigger blanket.  I don't know where it came from but it's their "thing" right now. 

5.  I just love all the pictures we have of the girls...our generation is so lucky to have cameras so accessible! Here are some of my favorites from recent weeks:

Maggie at her sassiest

Campbell got a new pair of glasses (a badly needed back up pair!)

Turn our backs for 30 seconds and this is what happens:

Campbell and her BFF, Eleanor, went to see Finding Nemo 3D and had a great time!

My favorite part of having 2 girls is watching them be sisters!  They even share (sometimes!)