I Can't Believe We're Watching This!!!

Much to my dismay, Doodle decided to watch a Barney video this afternoon. Yes, Barney. Barney, who I was just sure had made his final exit from our DVD player last spring. She must be getting sick or something. Actually, I think that might be the case. Boo has had some very explosive (to put it somewhat less disgustingly) sneezes today. It's probably just the beginning of the next cold. After all, we did make it through a full week of school. How could I possibly expect to make it two weeks?! Doodle has also been a little too quiet this afternoon. This mama's intuition knows there's something not quite right. So Barney's back. Will he ever leave? Probably not until I get up the nerve to destroy the DVD's. And I don't imagine that will happen anytime soon. There's something comforting about the idea that my growing-up-too-fast girls still have enough of the little girl left in them to not gag at the idea of watching Barney. I guess that's why I don't get too upset when Barney makes his appearance again after months of being tucked away behind all the other movies.

We had a very nice weekend. We made our first trip down to visit the grandparents since school started. Papa had found 3 kittens in his shed, so the girls spent both days this weekend catching, holding, petting and fawning over those kittens. That's not totally true. They were very attached to Pokey and Snowball, but Penny didn't really spend much time in their good graces. Penny was too much of a Mama's-Kitty. She/He (I'm not really sure which) was not at all content to be held and only wanted her/his mother. On the plus side, Doodle wasn't terribly interested in holding any of the kittens after the one she was holding moved its paw (after which she promptly tossed it to the ground). It's a good thing, I'm sure, that we only had two girls interested in holding kittens and only two kittens interested in being held. We got to enjoy some time with our family and let the girls make use of the good country air. They also made use of the country mud. They played in the yard after it had been flooded Friday and looked like mud-balls by the time I made them head to the house. They were so filthy, in fact, that they had to strip down and be hosed off before I even allowed them into the house. They had fun. It was worth washing their clothes three times in a row. No, really, it was worth it to see them have so much good dirty fun.

Today we got to enjoy some time with Uncle Jim & cousins Jonathan & Kerri. The girls love being able to play with someone new. They even played Pretty Pretty Princess with Jim & Jonathan. Yes, I took pictures. Yes, I'm willing to use them for blackmail. Kerri also got the joy of holding Addie as she wiggled her second loose tooth out of her mouth. Hopefully the tooth fairy can remember there's work for her to do tonight!

All in all we've had a nice three days and are not totally ready to get back into the swing of things. Well, I'm ready, but nobody else really seems to be. I'm afraid it's not going to be a totally normal week as they're just not acting quite like themselves today. It looks like we're going to be making use of the Kleenexes again this week. Such is life...