SLOANE AND LOGAN THESE DAYS

Happy Spring! We've been waiting and waiting. After daylight savings, there has been that extra hour of daylight when we get home that has felt like magic, and we are all tingly for sunshine and fresh air.

I always include in these notes the cute and lovely things about the girls  that I want to remember, but I should also include here that I want to remember that this was also the time when Logan had a really hard time falling asleep (resulting in many a frustrating evening and exhausted and rushed morning), when the girls kept begging for more time before bedtime to play, and that sometimes the result of the girls getting so deep in play is that I have to repeat myself several times before they hear me.  But this was also the time when Logan wasn't waking up crying in the middle of the night anymore, she just always comes into our bed at some point so she can snuggle with me (which I love), and when the deep play of the girls always fills me with wonder and awe at their imagination and commitment.

Here are some things that Logan has said recently that made me laugh:

1. "Logan, you have to go sleep. Getting enough sleep will help your body grow."
   "But, mom, I don’t want to grow up!"
   "Why not?""Because I don’t know how to drive!!"
2. On the way home, I turned down a street that we don't usually go down."Mom, where are we?!....Africa??"
3. "Hey mom, can you hear of my body stretching? Can you hear it doing a long long stretch?"
4. "Mom, where is God?""He's everywhere."
   After a few moments: "Is he under things?"
5. I asked her if she thought she looked like me or Ken (she said she looks like Ken and Sloane looks like me). And then I asked "What about Rusty? Do you think Rusty looks like me or daddy?"She gets an incredulous look on her face and says, “Moom, Rusty’s ears are not here (pointing to the side of her head where her ears are), they are on top of his head!!"
6. Counting: “...7..8..9...hm but why does 9 come after 8?”
7. And her new thing now that she says when she doesn't want to do something is to loudly declare,"I'M NEVER!"

Here are some gems from Sloane: 

1. The other day, the song "Faded" came on (by Alan Walker, the Tiesto remix) and I heard Sloane say wistfully, "Oh, this reminds me of summer when I was little." (She's referring to two years ago when we made a video using this song for our summer kick off video).
2. Sloane is still winning all the awards for being the such a good big sister. I still marvel at how mature and calm and reasonable she can be when trying to help Logan or talk her down from a near meltdown. There was this one time we were playing "the song game", where I start playing a song and they have to take turns guessing the name of the song, and I can't remember why but Logan started to get upset about something, and I took a deep breath about to tell her to simmer down, and then Sloane came in and started soothingly explaining the situation to Logan and providing a solution - all in a way that was even better than I would have handled it. I was VERY impressed, and Logan was totally reassured and calmed down.
3. Similarly, I cut up peaches for the girls the other day and Logan got very upset that the peaches had darker parts of the peach center (not the pit, but the parts around it) still attached to some of the peach slices and started wailing about it. I said "too bad, go ahead and just eat it", she kept refusing and I ignored her. A few minutes later I came back and she was eating it, because Sloane had taken each one of her slices and bitten the darker parts off of it.
4. Sloane has a best friend at school, and the other day, she described a conflict to me and how they worked it out.  I was proud of her for working it out, but also for opening up to me, describing it to me so well and allowing me to ask her all the questions.  It felt like she was so much older than six.
5. Sloane's favorite sandwich these days is cucumber slices, ham or turkey and some sort of mayo (or better yet, jajik!). She likes it so much that we call it a "Sloanie sandwich"!
6. I had such a good time reading L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" with her a few weeks ago.  Diving into a story like that together with her is my favorite.
7. I heard Sloane "playing" the ukelele and singing a made-up song and I went to go check it out. She had set up a little chair with some baskets around her, and was telling Logan she could put money in the basket while she played. She then said that she was poor so Logan should probably take her out to dinner.
8. This morning Ken was trying to wake her up (yes, we have to wake them up every morning, and they are so sleepy when we do...it's very sad) and said, "Come on Koala bear, get up!"And she said, "You know koala bears sleep for a long time, right? .....so you can just let me sleep!"

These series of photos was their idea. This is them being "serious". 

This is their "happy". 

This is their "fancy". 

And this is their "silly". 

Where did she get poses like this??