ABC’s, Gymnastics, Water, Baby Dolls & Football, and Fun at the Zoo

The girls have been working on their ABC’s.  I love in this video that Emma picks up right where Madi pauses and them it goes back to Madi to finish it off.  They are also showing off their big girl panties, Madi’s have Elmo and ABC on it.  She is now only in diapers at nap and bedtime, so proud. 

Gymnastics

The girls have been taking a gymnastics class since December. The other day Chad decided to come with us before heading off to a meeting.  The girls loved showing daddy what gymnastics was all about.  Madi even went on the big trampoline for the first time.  She is my cautious one.

Emma is a little more adventurous at gymnastics.

Daddy helping Madi on the bars.

Emma loves to hang on the bars and try to touch her toes to her hands.

Water Anyone?

The girls use their stools and chairs to reach almost everything these days.  Saturday night daddy and I were relaxing on the couch when I turned around and noticed the girls helping themselves to some water.  The best part is that Madi can’t open the fridge or freezer by herself, so when she wants it open she calls for Emma and says, “Emma muscles”. 

Baby doll and football

I love this picture of Emma, she is snuggling with her baby doll and football wearing her basketball pajammies.  Just a few of her favorite things.  The jammies are my favorite because when I took the girls to Costco to pick out new jammies neither of them wanted the pink girlie ones with butterflies and flowers.  Instead Emma insisted on the orange and brown monkey basketball ones and Madi ended up with green monkey ones.  Emma asks us to turn on basketball instead of cartoons.  She will actually sit and watch the games.  I don’t think she will ever be tall enough to actually play as the height predictor predicts she will only be 5’1” based on her two year stats.

Fun at the zoo

Daddy has been sick all weekend, so Saturday morning I took the girls to the zoo to get out of the house and give him some peace and quiet.  It wasn’t that nice but the zoo was packed.  I am used to going on the week days when it is empty.  We still had fun though.  The hippos are either sleeping or in the water when we visit them, today one was actually walking around enjoying a snack. 

The girls pulling their own stuff around, as I followed empty handed.  I could get used to this.

The bear was in great view also enjoying a snack. 

As we went by the sloth bear exhibit we noticed quite a crowd, so we stopped to take a look as well.  It turns out they were introducing their male and female.  Turns out sloth bears make a really interesting sound.

 

The girls also had fun playing on the gorilla statues.  They were trying to use their muscles to move the little one and giving high fives to the big one.  Daddy taught them how to grunt when they use their muscles.