Heart Necklaces

At the beginning of the school year I bought some "Mommy And Me" necklaces. I got three necklaces, one is a gold bar with two little hearts cut out and two necklaces with one little heart on each. I got these for the girls to wear while at school, telling them that if they missed me during the day they just needed to at their heart necklace and think of me. I would have mine one, too, and be thinking of them. Lucy was on board with this and has worn her necklace to school each day except for one when we forgot. Molly has worn it here and there, definitely not as much as Lucy! I enjoy wearing it and think it's a fun little way for us to be connected. :)

Sleeping

We've been having trouble with Molly's sleeping the past few months. For pretty much the whole summer she would come into our room and sleep with us for half the night. We got her to break this habit mid-September and she's been sleeping in her bed all night, so that's great! But, sometimes we have to let her fall asleep in our bed or our guest bed and then move her back into her bed when we go to sleep. I took the two pictures below on separate nights when she fell asleep in the guest bed and laughed so much when I saw her. By the way she's laying, it's as if she was trying to get out of bed, but fell asleep mid-process. This much made me laugh so much!

Molly

Molly is just the sweetest little girl and I've noticed that her personality is really starting to show since she's been in preschool. She is becoming her own little person and I love this! She loves going to preschool and has been excited about it from day one. She has been doing great, and even got a progress report sent home today telling what all she can do. I am very proud of her!

Both of her teachers have told me on separate occasions how Molly is such a good little girl and they love having her in class. They said she is a good friend and everyone really likes Molly and wants to play with her. They say she is very kind and has a best friend, Elliott, who loves Molly as much as Molly loves him. This is so nice to hear and just warms my heart. :)

Things Will Always Be Found

The girls have had a dollhouse for almost two years now. The dollhouse came with some furniture, one piece being the piano pictured below. The piano has three legs on it that are not permanently attached, and for the last year one piano leg has been missing. I have looked and looked and looked for it, never being able to find it. I always figured it would show up somewhere, but never guessed it would show up when getting my fall/Halloween decorations out this year!

I have no idea how or why this happened, but the missing piano leg showed up in one of the pumpkin cups the girls got as a gift last year. The cup got packed away after Halloween last year, and when I was getting all my decorations out  few weeks ago, Lucy took the cup and showed me the leg that was inside of it. At first I couldn't figure out what it was, and then realized it was the missing piano leg! I laughed and laughed and laughed at this! And thinking back to it, the way Lucy got the cup out of my box and found the leg, it seems like maybe she knew it was in there all along?! Who knows. I'm just glad to have the leg back so the piano can stand up again. And I did take some hot glue and glue all three legs into the piano so hopefully we wont' have this problem again!

Lucy And The Balance Beam

I'm so proud of Lucy! She's been doing gymnastics for a few weeks now and really seems to like it. I wasn't too excited about gymnastics because I thought dance would suit her better, but this last week I realized that maybe gymnastics is just perfect for her right now. In this video here, you can watch her stand up on the balance beam and walk on it all by herself. This is big for her! She tends to be a bit on the scared/fearful side when it comes to doing things like this. And the times we've been to open gym, she won't go anywhere near the balance beam, even with my help! I was so excited and so proud to see her do this balance beam exercise! I realized that maybe gymnastics is exactly what she needs right now to help her conquer some fears and gain some confidence. So I'm proud of Lucy and I'm proud of myself for allowing her to do gymnastics even when it wasn't what I wanted for her. :)