Update on the girls

So many changes daily! I will try and post some videos shortly but I wanted to talk about changes with the girls first. Raleigh is riding a bigger bike and playing soccer. She started pre-K a few weeks ago and loves it! Yesterday she said, "Mom... I wish I could be a hero." I said, "Me too Raleigh. There are a lot of people I would save." She said, "Ya, but we can't save them because we are all just people." I said, "True dat, sister. So true."

Mark was cleaning the garage and Raleigh begged him to make her a red sword. My mom was upstairs watching the girls and Raleigh kept yelling down the stairs, "Dad is my sword done yet?" When I got home from the weekend we were outside playing with it and she said, "My daddy made me this red sword. Mom, when you were little did your daddy make you a sword?" I said, "No. No swords for me." Then she said, "Mom, when you were little was Grandma taller like you?" Raleigh has been understanding for some time the relationships with family and she is fascinated by it. She talks about Gracy being her sister like Uncle Shay is my brother, Grandma being my mom, and K-ma being Mark's mom etc. etc. So, I could tell she was trying to conceptualize short little grandma as a mother. I said, "No, grandma was little even when she was my mom."

Raleigh and Gracyn are always fighting for 'air time' in the car. They both talk at me at once and occasionally dialogue with each other. Which is VERY entertaining to hear Raleigh lecture Gracy on the 'goings-on' of life. Gracy will respond with a, "ohhhh Raaawwwllie, Ohhhh."

A few days ago Gracy peed in the toilet uninitiated by us. She has been pretending like she poops in the toilet so when she came to tell my mom and I she had peed in the toilet we didn't pay attention. Later, my mom walked in the bathroom and said, "Uh, I think Gracy really did pee in the toilet" as it was full of pee. We celebrated with M&Ms for everyone.