My girls

It was a bit of a crazy evening tonight. Just me and the girls since it was Derek's first night of his summer session classes. After dinner and playing outside and baths and jammies, we were having a peaceful moment of playing before bedtime. That is to say, Charlotte and Grace were playing (on opposite sides of the room, thank God) and I was sitting in the chair in our bedroom with my eyes sort of glazed over. Out of the blue, Charlotte got up and ran over to me and said "Mommy!" and tried to climb into my lap. I boosted her up and she was saying something that I hadn't heard before and I couldn't figure out what it was immediately. She was giggling on my lap and I was trying to piece together the vowel sounds in hindsight to figure out what she was telling me when it hit me. She just said "I love you, too." Which is when I almost passed out from love for the little twerp.

Here are some shots from tonight.

Here, Charlotte is checking on the pansies that she helped plant.


Grace loves her bottle. We are going to have trouble with this one, I think.



edited to add one more - this is Grace on the landing of the front stairs this weekend.