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We went up to Rockville this weekend so I could run in a neat race (Rockville Twilight Run). We all got to see some old friends. 

We stayed in the palace-basement of Auntie Lynn and Uncle Ryan’s house…the land where kids sleep late.  Amelia slept until about 7:30 every day, on an air mattress in the same room as us.  We were woken each morning with a sweet, “Daddy, I have to go potty.”  Daphne slept until 8:30 and 8.  (We won’t talk about the times she cried in the night.)  Thanks for having us and we hope you enjoyed your peaceful Sunday afternoon! 

We especially enjoyed watching the girls slide down the stairs to the basement on their tummies.

Click here to see Daphne sliding down the stairs.
Here’s a great shot of Daphne in a pink cowgirl hat!

Auntie Melinda came to see us and Daphne really enjoyed reading Bad Dog Marley with her.

She picked that book up three or four times today, by herself- it had a lasting effect on her!

We had a bit of crazy sillyness this morning at Auntie Lynn and Uncle Ryan’s house. Amelia is being strict about her days-of-the-week underwear. The luxury runs out after tomorrow because Tuesday is dirty.  There is some history of Lynn and Ryan’s daughter naming a bear “Undie”, and it always wore her underpants. So, Lynn and Amelia went upstairs to find Undie, and dressed up Undie, and friends, this morning.

Wishbone is on Amelia’s lap. She named the polar bear “Polar Undie”.
We went by our old house and played in the park for a few minutes while we waited for Amelia’s rockville babysitter to return from the store.

Great memories in this park.  Lots of Amelia “firsts”.  It was fun to see Daphne romp where Amelia played so many times before, swing in Amelia’s old swings, all that stuff.

We love Rockville, but were reminded of one of the main reasons we moved as we sat still on 95S, on the way home.  Amelia asked Daphne to hold her hand several times.  Sometimes I’m not sure how we got two girls who are so sweet to each other.  They really enjoy each other most of the time.

 Daphne figured out “Yes” on Friday.  We were packed and ready to head out.  I took her  upstairs to change her into pj’s, and said “Daphne, do you want to go for a ride?”.  She said, “Yesh!”, like she’d been saying the word for years.  I like it.  Ethan likes her “no”s.  When she decides to answer “No”, she stops and just looks at you to see your reaction (before she walks away).

She came up with a ”Pardon me” this weekend.  And asked me “Mama, more piggies please”, in the car on the way home, while holding out her foot in my direction.

 Amelia went to bed looking at her “Where are the Dragons?” book.  She asked me to come back in 5 minutes to let her know to put the book down and go to bed.   I did, and she was already asleep with the book open over her face.  Unfortunately, I woke her up when I took the book off.  She came to me a few minutes ago and asked me to let her sleep late tomorrow because she was going to be tired.