Almost 4

Every week, I see signs of the girls getting older but this past week, there were a couple of things that really stood out. One of the things they love to do is take their big wheels out for a ride around our neighborhood. They've met a few of the neighborhood kids as well as some dogs that they like to pet and play with. There is one 10 year-old girl in particular named Claudia that moved into our development a few months ago. She is incredibly sweet with the girls and loves to play with them at the park and help them explore. For the first time ever, the girls wanted to go to Claudia's house and ask if she could play. Morgan was with them on this trip and helped them go up to her front door, talk with her parents, and ask if she could play. They spent over an hour riding around the neighborhood and playing as kids do. They even brought her home so they could show her their room! It was too cute. Finally, it was getting dark and her dad showed up at our front door. Oops! Our bad. We should have known to get her back home before dark. Obviously, we're new at this. Her dad was actually very gracious and kind.
On this same afternoon, Morgan also told me that the girls knocked on another neighbor's door and asked if the two dogs that lived there (Diesel & Otis) could come out to play. And yes, that's exactly what the dogs did, too!
I have two very social butterflies.

The other thing the girls did on Friday night was to tell us where they wanted to go for dinner. We had just finished making a family trip to our local nursery and Morgan and I were talking about where we should grab a bite to eat. The girls then chimed in by saying, "How about we go to Panera?" "Yeah, Panera!" We've only been there a few times for lunch so we didn't really think of it as a dinner spot. We love the creamy tomato soup and we order the soup for a group. We like to dip the crusty bread in the soup and enjoy every bite. The garlic croutons are yummy, too. Soup--it's about the only thing I'm going to miss about winter! Well, that and the snow. It seems as though I've been ready for Spring since the new year! Anyway, I'm so happy to have two little soup lovers, like myself. The days seem to be flying by recently. It's been fun to see the girls maturing in both conversation and understanding. Faith has been testing boundaries a little but that's pretty typical for her. She likes to see just how far she can go and how much she can get away with-- which is not much in our house. Often, we say she's just too smart for her own good. We're working on that.

The countdown has officially begun to their birthday! I can't believe in just a month, our little girls will be 4! Seems like not so long ago, we were just home from Korea and they were crawling babies. I'm very excited for them and all that they will be learning and experiencing in their 4's!