Spring is coming!

It has been so nice outside the last couple of days! Annie is really looking forward to getting to wear her summer time clothes, and Tim is really looking forward to Annie not insisting on wearing summer clothes on top of winter clothes. She is often seen wearing pastel polka dot turtle necks under flowered sundresses with stripped orange and blue tights, and of course her ruby red slippers. (She really likes picking out her own clothes!)

Yesterday it was so warm that after dinner we got the bikes out and took a ride to the playground. The girls played great together, they are really becoming best friends. It was nice to see them like that, and also nice to not have to be the one entertaining Olivia...Annie took care of that by chasing her around, pretending to try and catch her. Seeing that also made me wonder if second born babies have a higher rate of accidents, mainly because we were watching Olivia climb up ladders and such and I know that with Annie we would have been right there waiting for her to fall down...hummm, I wonder if that is the reason Annie is so tentative about certain things but Olivia will just jump right in.

Today Tim and the girls went to check out the botanic gardens. A nice man was working on the vegetable garden and he let Annie plant a lettuce. It's the one right on the corner, so if you are ever there, and happen to see a lettuce plant flourishing on the corner of the garden, think of our green thumb, Ms. Annie.

I posted earlier that we had plans to take Olivia for her 2 year checkup. The night before, Annie spent a few minutes describing what was going to happen..."your going to get a shot, but don't worry it won't hurt. I'm not going to get a shot, cause I already got my shots...Olivia, if you are good at the doctors, then we'll both get a lollypop!" squeals of excitement from both girls at this. The best part was hearing Olivia repeat back everything Annie told her -"get a shot, not hurt, you get shot, good lollipop, yeah! The appointment went great...we walked into the lobby and the first thing we hear from Olivia is were is her lollipop? In the exam room...lollipop? Doctor shows up, can I have a lollipop? Well, basically the appointment went like this - Bav weighs almost 24 lbs (15%), she is 33.75 inches tall (30%), and has a 19.5 inch melon (95% - must be lots of brains in there)! She recognizes a kitty cat, a dog, a boy, and a horse, but not a bird. In her defense, the bird looked like a kindergartener drew it...She knows her body parts, and eats hamburger. The doctor was really impressed with that for some reason, and he was blown away when we told her that she can pretty much dress herself. So basically, yes, she is the world's cutest, smartest, and the most hamburger eating, dressing-ish 2 year old.

ps. Yes, she did get a lollipop...a pink one, yeah!