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Tue, Jan 20, 2009 11:06 PM
Today was the historical inauguration of America's 44th President. When I asked Lola what her favorite part of the inauguration was, she said it was "the lady who wore the hat with the bow and sang." It was a reference to Aretha, and I was pleased that she liked Aretha, and most especially her divalicious hat.

Lola and I also went to the doctor today for her annual check-up, and she was a star. The nurse was particular impressed with her advanced degree of holding the pen and drawing a picture of me.

Lola remains in the 25th percentile in height and weight. She's so lean and tiny! She's almost 42 inches and she weighs just over 36 pounds. Aw.

Lucy started daycare and really seems to be enjoying it. She's wearing underwear to bed now and has only had one accident. We're totally impressed.

Lucy also knows almost the entire alphabet by sight now, something I attribute to Lola's having learned the alphabet this fall in Kindergarten and helping her little sister along.

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Erica: Grannie in England quite agrees

Grandma: I'm really not biased but I do believe that my grandchildren are exceptionally bright, talented & beautiful. My daughter Bonnie said I'm allowed to say that in that I'm their grandma. But, it's true! :)

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Thu, Jan 8, 2009 8:06 PM
I know, I know, it's probably too much information, but...

Lucy pooped on the potty today. Much better than doing it on the carpet and trying to do artwork with it with a paint brush (talk about "mixed medium".

Tomorrow she has her pre-school screening.

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Tue, Jan 6, 2009 9:04 PM
It's been so long since we've posted a story here!

I am happy to report that Lola, now 5 with a recent birthday in December, is flourishing in Kindergarten. She is beginning to read books - -really sounding out the words and figuring them out -- which is so fantastic to see.

She can easily write letters too, and is interested in writing notes and email and signs.

Lola is also growing emotionally, too. She generally has been very helpful and careful with Lucy these past months, like holding Lucy's hand while Lucy was getting stuck in very icy snow outside in our front quad area.

And Lucy has a milestone of her (very) recently. A few days ago, I got her to start using the little yellow potty that we may have brought with us from Burbank a couple of years ago.

We've tried bribing, peer pressure, you name it, and the girl just would NOT use the potty. But she has seem to get it, mostly, now, which is a great relief, although Juliet had a story from today that doesn't include pee, but, rather, poop.

Lucy missed the toilet by about a foot, and then tried to start cleaning it up (or, um, painting) by spreading it with a paintbrush she found. I was, luckily, outside trying to jumpstart our car!

Now that Lucy is nearly potty-trained we can put her into daycare (CT has much more strict rules about potty training in pre-school than CA!). And she will be taking a pre-school screening this week to see if she is eligible for pre-school in our local elementary school! She is learning the alphabet much earlier than Lola, but only because I think Lola is helping her learn them!

As part of the screening, we are asked how to describe Lucy. Free spirit. Naughty. Possibly deranged come to mind. And I mean that in the most loving, possible way.

Other than that, Juliet has been taking the girls swimming, and I am more of the baking/crafty mom (who knew?). The girls also enjoy the Wii, and are actually pretty good about it.

More later, with, hopefully, some photo uploads! The girls really enjoyed watching videos of themselves when they were smaller.

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