Caroline has discovered Cooper and loves to "play" with him ... and he loves to bring her his toys as if she could play tug of war with him ... it is fun to see her laugh at him!
... she is beginning to be able to sit for a few seconds ... with the twins ... as soon as it was a few seconds it felt like within days they were sitting like champs ... she will just sort of fall on her face and not let it phase her ...
... she will also occasionally draw up her knees like she is trying to crawl and she can scoot along a teeny bit ... mobility seems just around the corner ...
One of the twins favorite things to do these days is go out after a rain and find the snails ... they will literally find 30 snails and cart them around and "name" them and let them crawl all over their arms ... gross ... 
... another favorite is to play Mommy and baby ... Hannah had her "purse" (a little bag she filled with blocks) and was going to go take her "baby" (aka Meredith) for a walk ...
I will try just about anything to get the girls to try to potty ... everyone says just to wait until they are ready and they will just train themselves ... well, no one tells you what to do if you can't wait for them (as in they have to be trained for pre-school, which I really find unfair ...) We are all getting tired of talking about potty! I try and make potty time fun but feel that my kids may be 5 and still expect me to come in and party with them while they go potty ... hopefully, once they "get it," we can move past the painting of nails and watching of DVDs while sitting on the throne ... here is Meredith painting my nails ... she really didn't do all that horribly!
... and Hannah painting Grandmama's toes ...
... they look excited, eh? More like "OK I will sit on the darned potty just so you quit buggin' me!!!" Meredith actually goes pee pee in the potty a little over half of the time ... Hannah has never gone in the potty! AHHHH!!!! 
One of the things derailing our progress is Caroline ... the twins don't want to be "big girls" and go on the "big girl potty" ... they want to be "babies like Caroline" ... "Mommy, I am your baby, too ... I don't want to learn how to potty" ... I caught Caroline "in the act" today and thought maybe I could use her to my advantage ... the twins got a kick out of Caroline making poopy on the potty! 
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That is too funny and only b/c I have so been there!! I feel your pain and all I can say is I had the advantage of being able to put it off one more year b/c Adeline didn't do a 3 year pre-school. She starts this fall. It was by far the most horrible, frustrating, messy thing I have ever done so far as a parent!! She REFUSED to go and then once we got the pee pee part, she TOTALLY REFUSED to poop for seriously like 6 months!! And then one day I had had it and just told her the doctor called and said I had to throw her diapers away she was too old for them (I like to make blame other people sometimes). So, I threw all the diapers away in her room and that just wasn't an option anymore to wear a diaper. Then we had about a week where we pooped in her pants ALOT and finally I got to where I would just throw them away, then she went about a week without pooping at all and then finally she did it. she still would cry and pitch a fit but she would do it. Now, after about 3 months it is going very well. And the baby thing doesn't help. Adeline wants to be a baby like Luke too!! I couldn't use that to my advantage either that she was the BIG GIRL!!
Freaking hilarious...the painting of the toes. Hmmm...maybe that would work for Brennan since he carries the girls' lipstick and purse around all day. Great to chat with you the other day. We are going to be in Wilmington, NC the last weekend of July...too bad it wasn't a little closer to you. Chat with you sooner rather than later!
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