Happy

Every new picture of them together is becoming my favorite. :)

Kara uninterested in posing...dress uninterested in staying on.

Apart from the episodes of acting like terrors, I am really enjoying the girls becoming girls instead of babies. I think they get cuter every day and it's impossible for me to even record everything cute that they say and do. They've learned to ride their whale teeter totter together, which is fun (the first time they did it they both kept telling me they were "happy" the whole time). They are generally really good listeners and helpers. They love to laugh, and to make each other and us laugh. They're really smart and have amazing memories, and are learning so fast. Andrew's mom (Nana) visited this weekend and they were so sweet with her. Etc. etc. I could not ask for better girls.

We were talking about what we'd like things to look like when Little arrives (1 month from today is my due date!) and how to plan to achieve that. I realized I don't really have any specific goals or a vision of how I'd like things to be...I just want everyone to be happy and I want to do whatever it takes to achieve that. I feel like parenting has taught me that letting my children do things in their own time and own ways, with appropriate boundaries and guidance, has made everyone happy and so much better off (especially me, since I'm such a perfectionist and tend to stress about everything). Andrew and I decided that there's no way to be prepared for a newborn, so instead of trying to have "everything ready," including how we'd like the girls to be/what we'd like them to be doing, I'm just going to be happy with the way things are and enjoy this last month with my amazing husband/father of our children and the 2 best babies around.

One of my (many) favorite things is that they really are best friends. They do this all the time, without prompting. Not only am I so thankful for them, but I'm so thankful that they have each other. (And if you click on the picture to see it larger, you can check out their curls - love!)