Leif 6 Weeks; Summer!

It's summer! Not technically, but it feels like it AND it's past Memorial Day, so yeah, it's summer. We've had a couple of good days enjoying it after a rough rainy-Tuesday-after-Kurt-was-home-for-four-days kind of day. We went to MadTown Twisters open gym yesterday - gymnastics stuff set up for little kids. The girls loved it as they have before. And we got to hang out with Cynthia and Viggo.  Freya climbed all the way up the "rock" wall, probably about 6 or 7 feet off the ground (big mat underneath). And we had a tree-climbing incident over the weekend with both girls climbing about 10 feet up a pine tree. That was kind of scary because I had Leif in the Moby and if someone fell....well, no one fell. Upshot is, they seem to be developing into climber-monkeys like their mama.
Leif continues to be a mostly happy camper. He's arguably had some smiles, I think he has and Carol saw some too, but I know some people probably just think they're gas or whatever. Looking forward to for sure real smiles! 6 weeks has gone by in absolutely the blink of an eye.

One thing re: summer. I always sort of scoffed at two-piece swimsuits for little girls, like, why start them so young on these adult things. HOWEVER. I realize now the eminent practicality of a two piece with potty training toddlers...might actually have to invest in some. With long tops NOT bikinis.

Funny things from the girls: last post I talked about pretty dancing flower/mean rattlesnake. They love speaking in opposites. Lots of times they'll answer a question with what ISN'T the answer, telling us what it isn't. One funny one is, they like to be super heroes (Super Freya and Super Signe), and we say "Super Freya is going to save the day!" etc. They both decided the opposite of saving the day is cutting the day. So if they want to be oppositional, they say, "no, I'm going to CUT the day."

One other thing mostly Freya does is "magic" tricks. Doing the jack-in-the-box is a magic trick. This morning she said she did a magic trick and pointed to two blank places on the floor. No idea what it meant. But hey. The whole world is magic to a little kid right, gotta appreciate that :-)

 I can tell you that this is not a baby lacking stimulation

 A little surprise from Freya...we find the covers pulled up after putting the kids to bed...

 THERE are her friends we couldn't find for bedtime

 In a box, in a row, strapped in, on a pillow, tucked in. So Freya.

 Going for some morning playground fun

 Our "triple" stroller. The girls were very good sports

 Is Mr. Leif developing curly black hair like Grandpa Jim? And a Brewers mania? We'll see...

 Fun with bee friend

 He looked at it and batted it for quite awhile. Kurt even saw him smiling at it

 Kurt has been introducing the girls to Calvin and Hobbes. They LOVE it (even though they can understand about 5% of it ;-))

 Summer!