Vlogging, Ice Cream, Picnic, Legoland, and Stuff

I found a bunch of videos Ever made on my phone. Jim and I are concerned that she's looking for a future in vlogging or something. This is a fraction of the first one, made on New Year's Day:

There was a family outing to Baskin Robbins. 

Tiny used to love bananas. Now she usually won't eat them, but once in a while she asks for some when we're grocery shopping. And when she wants them, she really wants them. Like, she'll want to eat one right in the store and usually she wants a second one right after the first. And then she won't eat bananas for a while. It's confusing.

When Ever turned seven, she got to start using the treadmills at the YMCA. We tried to put on her one a few months early and got busted. She'd been looking forward to this milestone for a long time. She exercised with me a couple times over Christmas break. When she ran, she ran incredibly fast - pretty much as fast as I ever run. Then she'd have to take a break and walk for a while. Interval training, I suppose.

One night, Jim and I hung Grandma's paintings above the piano (they were previously in the office) and put up a couple hooks in the office. It felt like an amazing accomplishment, and Grandma's paintings really warm up the living room.

I caught Ever and Wrenzy cuddling in the kitchen one morning before Ever took off for Legoland. I love my girls' love.

Ever had a grand time at Legoland with Leela and Rafi.

I took the littles down the street for a picnic. We wore hats in the name of sun protection. 

Wrenzy learned plié, kick, arabesque, twirl, curtsy, and bow, and she performed them as a routine.

We were heading back up to the house when we saw Jim come home from work. The girls were so excited. As they ran up the street, they screamed, "Daddy! Daddy! Daddy's home!" I missed a lot of the joyful screaming but caught some of the running.

We went to building cleanup one Saturday morning. By the time we got there, the cleaning was pretty much done. I think the girls' doughnut-eating mess outweighed any cleaning we did (although I did make them eat over garbage cans).