Things to love about Nellie and Annie

Annie loves...

• Being held, cuddled, and snuggled.
• BABIES. Baby dolls, baby humans, baby animals, baby bottles, baby strollers.
• Nellie. Everything Nellie does is exciting and/or hilarious to Annie. Well, almost everything.
• Her pacy. Especially the one for infants with Pooh on it that she found at grandma's house.
• Grapes
• Carbs, and sweets. When we give the girls sandwiches, Nellie only eats the meat and Annie only eats the bread. Basically, Annie eats like me and Nellie eats like Kev.
• Books. It is currently 8:33; Nellie is in the top bunk sleeping and Annie is reading with a flashlight.
• Singing, and all things musical. She knows all of Twinkle Twinkle, Jesus Loves Me, the Dora theme song, and Three Little Birds (Bob Marley).
  
• Taking baths, right up until the hair washing part.
• CHAPSTICK! I can't believe I almost forgot the chapstick.
• Her pink (well, brownish) silkie blankie.

Annie does NOT love...

• Not being held when she wants to be.
• That we're making her give up her bottle.
• When Nellie sits on her, takes her stuff, etc. etc.

Nellie loves...

• Talking. Moving. All the time.
• Learning new things - Kevin's been teaching her a lot about birds, and she also seems particularly interested in theology (being very concerned about whether or not animals go to heaven after we saw a dead squirrel in the road.) She also learned to milk a cow on Saturday at the Baby Animal Day on campus.
  
• That she is starting to read words. OPEN, mainly, and TREE.
• Playing a game with Annie that involves saying, "Okay Annie. You run this way, and I'll run that way." Runrunrun around the kitchen-dining room-hall-living room loop. Cue raucous laughter.
• Her cousins. All of them, but Robynne and Leah especially. It really is nice to have so many little girls close in age.
• The fact that we're getting ready to enroll her in preschool next year.
• Princesses, Dora, blah, blah.
• Gum. (Just like her Uncle Dave.)
• Doing gymnastics. We've been taking her and Annie to open gym for preschoolers where a gymnastics instructor is there to teach the kids tricks. I think it's what Nellie was born for. Annie likes it but mostly keeps an eye on the baby brothers and sisters sitting in their carseats in the corner.
  

Nellie does NOT love...

• Being told what to do.
• Bugs.
  
• Pop. I'm pretty sure we really just brainwashed her into believing she doesn't like it. Oh well!