More the Merrier

 Claire

She enjoyed having a different friend over this week when we helped out a family from our ward so they could still go to work while waiting for some COVID tests with their parents. Luckily it was negative but it was nice to have a new friend the kids could be excited for since she is the youngest they were very nice. At first, Claire called her cousin, because she knows her cousins from our vacation were about as young as her. Since we started learning with our fancy felt set about the scripture stories as our scripture reading at night, Claire likes to share what she has learned with Sage some days where she gets to be in charge. My mischievous plan to teach Claire about having a 'mommy dot' on her forhead has finally paid off and Claire keeps coming up to me and giving her lies away by covering her forhead. She did it for eating her carrots when she would rather have more strawberries, and when Shay fell down and came with a booboo. 

Shay

She copies Claire now wanting to wear her Frozen dress most days and I brought out the shoes that have Elsa and Anna on them that she wants to wear. They are too big for her and constantly fall off, but she loves them too much to mind. Sage was only visiting Friday for a little and after he went home this magical thing happened. Chris offered to let me go for a run while he hung out with the kids and he cuddled them to sleep while watching cocomelon. They stayed asleep for while too so I was able to stretch and take a shower with plenty of time before they got up. Shay is back to taking naps (usually on the couch) every day so maybe she is going to grow a few inches and be as tall as Claire soon if its a growth spurt. They are fine but she ususally wakes up pretty upset and is hard to console and I don't know how to make it better.