Dear Blogtrotters,

The Lady Babies will be 18 months this week (Friday I think). That's a bid deal! They are doing great in general. They learned how to give high fives, which is pretty awesome. The new big word they have is "cookie", or at least they say a word with a hard "c" sound that means "give me a cookie! I don't like waiting!! And 'yes' I do need one for my other hand." The first set of pictures from this week's installment illustrate my point better than words. We went the arboretum today. It was a beautiful, but the the arboretum is in a time of flux in mid-January. (That's a nice way of saying there weren't many living plants there.) Didn't matter the girls still had a great time.

Pics: first five are what happens when Abby tries to sleep in one day per week. The ladies find a bag of cookies. The sixth picture is the result of me taking the cookies away. Ellie is in blue with the sweet boots and Tilly is in pink sitting on her throne eating. Both are wearing their poodle vests)
Arboretum: first two are E. Tilly in the window by herself. Tiggeman on the deer looking regal. Ellie standing in front of Spiderman and Tilly by the baby deer.
PS that kid in the Spiderman suit was awesome. He ran around nonstop and refused to answer any questions that were not directed to "Spiderman" his job was to round up his brothers and sisters.
The video is of the girls yelling/talking to the deer. They have about 20 little animal sculptures around the place and the girls give each one a good talking too. Tilly is the one who starts by the deer and Ellie comes in next. If you're no good at playing the shell game and lose track, Tilly has the cup with the yellow lid.