fun facts

• the girls got some hand-me-down princess shoes from an older girl in the ward. They LOVE wearing them around. I get to act out the part of the ugly step sister all the time whose feet are too big to fit. It's great. Flashbacks to being called "big girls" on basketball teams (i.e. "big girls practice posting-up on this court")

• the girl's other new favorite game is wrapping presents for themselves and me and opening them. Odessa hunts around for something you already own, wraps it and makes you close your eyes until she presents it to you with a "Happy Birthday!". Then you open it and act very surprised. She can use the tape and tie ribbons by herself too.
  

• a couple of days I tried sleeping in because I was particularly sick. I learned just how independent my girls are: Odessa: "Ada, let me help you. You can't wear those leggings. I'll do it . . . . . because mom is sick!" They get themselves dressed and Ada takes off her night diaper and puts it in the garbage (or dirty clothes hamper, we are still working on that one).

• Odessa would come and consult me on something and then pull up my covers and say "you go back to bed mom, you're sick" and then shut my door.
  

• Ada crawls into bed with me and whacks me on the head "GET ME SOME CEREAL".