Miss Negotiator

She seems so cute, sweet actually, but in reality she is a .... master negotiator. You want proof, listen in on this exchange E had with her dad last week:

DoT: "E do you want strawberries or blueberries for dessert?"

MN (Master Negotiator): "grapes!"

Dot: "E that was not one of the options, do you want strawberries or blueberries?"

MN: "grapes!"

MN: "please dad may I have grapes?"

DoT, heading to fridge to get grapes: "grumble, grumble".


A sure sign you have more than one child happened yesterday when I had to ask everyone "OK now who put the stickers on Abby's bum (our cat)?" No one ever did fess up to that one.

After our scare two weekends ago, A seems to be perfectly fine. She seems to be into egging her sister on over who is first for everything (i.e. getting out of the car seat, getting a bib on, etc).

The kids had fun last weekend at our travel group reunion (the group we travelled with to get the girls). We had brunch then the kids played in the foyer. The funniest part was when some spa employees came out and asked the kids to be quiet (we didn't know there was one there - who knew 10 kids uttering piercing shrieks wouldn't be considered part of a relaxing day at the spa?)

Mom also had to explain to our girls that once you threw a coin into the wishing well, you didn't climb in to get it back...

Here a a few pics:


The hula rabbit (those ears need some coffee)

Our China travel group get-together last weekend

Busy ironing



New bunnies from Grandma M!

The Master Negotiator works best when no one can read her eyes...



The mandatory spaghetti face picture

The snazzy new vehicle the kids ride in at daycare (I am sure this thing is worth more than our Sunfire).

Wrestling...