Twin-vantages from today...

Advantage: learning to climb out of your crib
Twin-vantage: teaching your sister, so you can have a playmate during naptime

Advantage: forcing a rattle into the dogs mouth

Twin-vantage: your sister pinning him down so he can't move

Advantage: throwing apples off the deck (and when you get in trouble, yell "ball!!)
Twin-vantage: your sister runs to pick them up and bring them back for you

Advantage: once mom explains that apples are food, not balls, stack them in the dog kennel and
say 'jack eat'
Twin-vantage: have your sister put them in jack's mouth, so mom doesn't want them back anyways :)

And should I be worried? Francis is gone for the week, and the girls are convinced that the landscaper is daddy... and the meijer guy... and the gas station attendant.... and a little plastic figurine of a fireman :) hmmm...

Things I learned this week

• it IS possible to blow a fuse, a power bar, a treadmill engine and an electrical outlet all in 25 seconds
• I am not an electrician.
• it's also possible to wreck a sewing maching within the same hour
• Nor am I a washing machine repair-person
• blue playdough stains teeth blue
• rice is very tricky to wash out of hair, highchairs, walls, dog fur/AKA never use the washroom at mealtime
• if you burn your fingertips off, it could be adventagious in a bank robbery
• silence does not equal naps - occasionally it means that your daughter is stripping naked, then trying to clean up her own dirty diaper
• and the other one is dismantling the miniblinds
• kids/Sammi can get out of tights, jogging pants, onesies, jeans, and a sweater in less than 7 minutes
• things are always more fun when your sister does them too, so encourage her at all costs
• Sammi can climb out of a pack'n play
• date nights are always interrupted
• doing summersaults off the couch are more fun off the low part (the high part doesn't end well)
• the girls LOVE bible study fellowship, and did very well singing and cleaning up, and loved the leaders
• I have healthy daughters who are learning how to climb and potty train and do a host of new things, and are crazy over each other. Praise God from whom all blessings flow!