Growing, growing...

We had a weigh-in today. Elise is still fit to fight in the heavyweight category, coming in at 26 pounds. Linnaea is doing well, too, coming in at 22 pounds. The funny thing is that Linnaea is the more adventurous eater, she just eats less of whatever it is. We're still trying to tempt Elise's palate with meat and beans but she's developed some funny ways of telling us she doesn't like them. Once she took a mouthful of food, immediately decided she didn't like it, grabbed a towel that happened to be sitting on the table, opened her mouth and proceeded to wipe the food off of her tongue with the towel. Today she realized that she can get rid of some of the unwanted food on her tray by placing each cube of food on Linnaea's tray, one at a time. This is an improvement over throwing everything on the floor.

This past weekend our friends Jonathan and Lisa came to visit and say goodbye before they go to Vietnam for 18 months. We took a trip to the park and the girls got to go down the big girl slides. Jonathan and Lisa both took them down the big red spiral slide. Their favorite was a long blue one with humps. Once, I let Elise down without anyone at the bottom to catch her (thinking she wouldn't go fast enough to go over the edge), so she went flying down one hump, two humps, then bumped on her butt on the ground. It was funny.

We're going to make a trip to the library tomorrow!