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What a cutie!

Sisters…

Amelia actually held Daphne for a minute or two before saying “Done!”. Daphne got several kisses and a great hug.

Amelia has more than one fairy princess costume. She got a new skirt this week that she loves. And an awesome hat that she wears ALL the time. She likes to wear all three of her necklaces (Jack-o-Lantern, jingle bell, and blue beads). She is really getting into accessories.

Here she is with the purple fairy skirt right out of the box. She ran for her other gear to put it all together: a Hawaiian lei, a feather boa, her wand, sometimes a sparkly purse and a head band.

She also thinks that “Kissmas” is for wearing fairy princess costumes (like Halloween). She will be pleasantly surprised as she learns all about the holiday. When she sees houses with lights she says “I see Kissmas!”.

We had our chimney inspected this week and made a fire tonight. Daphne is really enjoying watching it. She rolls from her back to side to back to side…and now has the hiccups.

Good news for us and our landfills: Amelia seems to be potty training herself. She pulled all of her big kid underpants out of her drawer last weekend, and has started talking about wanting to wear them. She asks to go potty once or twice every morning at preschool, and once or twice every afternoon at home. Today she asked four times and was successful each time! In the afternoon, she sat reading from her bag of birthday cards from all of you. She is so proud of herself and cheers and claps. This is shaping up to be a gradual but easy process.

Daphne had been refusing bottles. She and I had a two hour holdout Thursday morning until she took her bottle and that seems to be the turning point. She takes several a day now and with not too much twisting and fussing, often none.