improvement

Things are looking up.  Rebecca's getting better.  She's slept ALL night--even until 6:00 am--for the last three nights.  Three nights ago was my first full night of sleep in months.   I couldn't believe it when I opened my eyes and it was 6:07!  (The other nights I've not slept the whole night, but it's not because of Rebecca.  It's just because I don't always sleep really well.)

She's been a much happier girl, too.  It's so nice!  Seems like she's been a fussy girl for months.  I missed my happy girl!

There's not a whole lot in the way of news to write about.  We went to the zoo this weekend, but I didn't take any pictures to show you.  We went to the park yesterday, (it was almost 60 degrees!  In February!) and it was lots of fun, but I didn't take any pictures.  Rebecca LOVED the swing.  Every time we'd try to get her out she'd say, "Again?  Again?"  Rachel spent most of the time dancing on a big tree stump (her stage). 

Rebecca's finally sitting still a little bit longer for stories.  She brings me books over and over through the day, saying, "Deed it?"  (Read it?)  I don't usually get through the whole book before she's up and moving on to another book or to do something else, but at least we're making progress at some sort of attention span. 

Rachel, on the other hand, is a little bit more interested in reading herself.  Until now it's something she has tolerated when necessary (every weekend she brings a book home for homework that she has to read us), but every so often now I'll see her with a book, or trying to read a piece of mail on the table, sounding out the words all on her own.  It's not something she loves to do (yet!) but hopefully she'll develop a love for reading as she continues to get better at it.  She loves to be read to, though.

The girls' favorite new toys are our old phones. On Friday our phones weren't working. The cable guy came (our phone is part of our cable package) and figured out it was our phone that was a problem, so we had to go buy new phones that night. Our old ones quickly became toys. Rebecca "calls" Grandma several times a day, now. Other times she calls Daddy. (The only two people I ever talk to on the phone are Grandma and Daddy, so when you ask her who it is, those are the two names she tells me.) My husband saved the charger so we can still charge them. Otherwise they don't beep, and the beeping is what makes them so fun for them to play with, because they sound real.