Wednesday, October 3, 2007

So Xochi is almost three and Uma is just over a year and a half. They are currently best friends and best competitors and sometimes best enemies. I expect it will always be so.
Uma decided it is time to pee on the potty chair which has blown us all away, but we'll see if it is still as much fun for her a month from now. I'm not going to get my hopes up. She knows all her colors and is mastering peeling and sticking stickers. She's working on jumping and actually gets really frustrated when she can't do something she sees me and Xochi doing, poor little peanut. Otherwise, she can pretty much keep up with her big sister and can manage her tackles much better now.
Xochi is really excited for halloween because I am making her a mermaid costume. She has been so patient waiting for me to finish. Uma will be a Snow Queen or something--but I am not making that costume. The pattern I bought for her costume turned out to be way too big for her... which is the kind of thing that happens when I go shopping with my daughters.
Xochi wears purple and still loves to wear "hanging-down barettes" which makes her feel like a girl with beads at the end of her braids who we read about in a book many, many months ago. She has begun to layer her clothing in order to create a bigger, more spinny skirt, etc. So she wears a short spinny dress with two longer spinny skirts underneath it. She gets a lot of attention in public, presumably due to the outfit.
We are all attending a parent-toddler class at the Minnesota Waldorf School and are enjoying that. The girls both love to feed the chickens blades of grass. I am pretty sure that is their favorite part about school. Well, Uma really enjoys snack, too.