2 reasons my kids are more awesome than other kids

1. They love babysitters
Provided the babysitter is young, female and cute. Homely babysitters don't go over well. This weekend we had a new babysitter--a friend of one of our other babysitters--and the girls immediately loved her.  She came in the house, Ava ran to get her dolls and then this conversation took place:

Julianna (the babysitter): Your doll is pretty!  What's her name?

Ava: Nina

Julianna: Nina!  What's the other one's name?

Ava: Nina

Then Sophie, who was trying to poop while playing with my iphone, called out, "I'm on the potty if you want to come see me!" Julianna went in and Sophie made her introductions.  Then we left and neither one of our children even said goodbye to us.


2. They are tiny adventurers
I'm convinced that if we were living in the 15th century, and Sophie and Ava were male, they'd be explorers. Ava is actually less inquisitive than she is bold.  She regularly flings herself off of the furniture and on to the floor, and she's always covered in scrapes and bruises.  She's torn every fairy figurine off of her Tinkerbell big wheel and rides it up and down the street with the boys Fred Flintstone style (because she's too small to reach the pedals). She would also make a good pirate.

Sophie is the super curious one. Today we went on a walk together to pick berries and go down to the beach. Here's a picture of a jellyfish Sophie found:

This was the size of a medium pizza

We looked at it and poked it with a stick. Then Sophie said, "Can we eat it?"

I love her. And here is one of my all-time favorite pictures of her:

At Toy Story 3-D