Water and Birthday Celebrations

Ellie loves to play with her turtle watering can in the bathtub.  Today in the middle of the long, lazy Sunday after noon we were having, she ran and got it and asked to play with it.  That sounded like a great idea to me, so I stripped the girls down and we spent an awesome hour getting soaking wet in the kitchen sink.

Lulu took lots of drinks of the warm water

there was lots of taking turns and sharing the water

and a few instances of sibling rivalry

love Lulu's clover tongue!

and her adorable thighs

We only stopped when it was time to get dressed to go to Grandma's house.  Ellie arranged these towels all by herself. 

Then it was off to Grandma's for a birthday dinner for Teri and myself.  Ellie fell asleep in the truck on the way there, and then slept for another half an hour on Grandma's couch.  Lynnie played peek-a-boo with everyone and pretended to be shy.  After a yummy dinner, it was time for presents.  Mom brought back lots of things from her trip to Shanghai to visit Amy for Christmas.

Love these awesome outfits from Aunt Amy!  Gwen and Ellie look adorable.

Lynnie went for the stairs a lot, and tried to squeeze past Grandma's chair to get there.

but she got stuck!