Madeleine (left), Emily (right) playing with leaves in Colonial Williamsburg.
Emily (left) and Madeleine (right) with more leaves.Dear Blog Readers,
We offer our sincere apologies for the delay in adding a new post. Grandparents have been in town and we have been on the go! Assuming our apologies are accepted, we will continue.
Placing acorns in our stroller, all the while explaining the intricacies to Grandma.
Collecting acorns with Grandpa.Madeleine and Emily have had a wonderful time with "Bapa and Mama" (Grandpa and Grandma) who flew in on the 30th and have spent two weeks with us. The girls had fun collecting acorns, going to the park, going to the "cafe" by the "big fountain", showing the grandparents "their" horses and playing in leaf piles in Colonial Williamsburg (we did our best to return the piles to their original shape upon our departure). There has been much participation in coloring of pictures and molding of Play-Doh.
The girls' parents have had fun enjoying the liberty to run errands on a whim and without planning comparable to the invasion of Normandy. They were also able to go out to dinner without having to pay the "babysitter" and the "babysitter" even put the girls to bed!! (We usually do this before frantically running out the door).
The girls were baptized at Williamsburg Presbyterian Church on November 11th and did fairly well for two-and-a-half-year-olds. Madeleine's thumb got a bit of a workout from all the sucking and Emily, after seeing water placed on Madeleine's head, loudly announced "No put water on Memy's head."
M with Madeleine and T with Emily. During the ceremony we had the opposite partners.One of our young ladies, who shall remain nameless, has been a little "demanding" recently. My parents have extra space in their luggage, but are not jumping at my suggestion they tuck a munchkin in their suitcase....so we shall trudge forward.
Today was my day to volunteer at "school". The weather was a bit hit and miss so we skipped the playground and went to the church's "atrium" where the kids could run around, crawl through the fabric tunnel, kick balls etc. On our way we went on a bit of a "tour" of the church (in an effort to tire the kids) and each child decided they needed to bring one of the "babies" from the classroom. Seven toddlers, each clutching a doll in varying degrees of nakedness, headed to the atrium. As we were wrapping up and leaving, the teacher ducked into the church's kitchen and came out with crushed ice in styrofoam cups. The "babies" were quickly shoved, rather unceremoniously, into the mesh bag with all the balls so each "student" could carry his or her styrofoam cup and munch ice on their way back to the classroom. This was a first for many of the kids and it was a hoot to watch them wrinkle their noses with each new ice chip, apparently ice is cold, and then eventually announce that they had cold mouths. Apparently some of us think we'd prefer warm ice next time.
Emily and Madeleine wish Aunt Chessy a very happy birthday!
