a week's worth catch-up {in bullets}

• Sometimes Elizabeth would rather smile and coo than eat. If I look at her the wrong way, she falls apart (in a good way). She's just discovered that she can get her voice to go in a really high squeal and she's using it frequently.
• "leave no footprints" is definitely not practiced by the children in this house
• all the schleigh animals smell like lavender
• Mary has gone from not stepping foot in the "big pool" here, to getting in all alone and even riding on my back while I do laps (in floats, of course)
• the creative summer pool is full of inspiration. full of amazing ideas.
• all my computer time this week has been spent doi