Never steal another girl's sister.

A paparazzo shot of Abby, trying in vain to hide behind her big blue tickle monster hands.

Some highlights of the day, in non-narrative form:

- Jen took the kids to Ridgedale, where the girls totally owned the play area. The slide was no match for them. During the visit, something happened that heretofore has never ever happened: Abby used Lily's name, on her own, to get her sister's attention. Amazing! An awesome first that I feel negligent for not witnessing.

- Also during this trip, a wee stranger took a liking to Abby and tried to befriend her. At some point this befriending involved leading her by the hand to another part of the play area. It was quite innocent; however, Lily saw this happening, and BOLTED over to forcibly take Abby back. How cute is that?! Very.

- Tonight the girls wanted to climb the stairs, so we did. This led us upstairs, where we then were. It was only natural for them to take the first left into the bathroom, which is what happened. Once we were all there, they proceeded to play like giggling idiots in the shower curtain for about 20 minutes. See the pictures below to get an idea of all of this. They were laughing so, so hard in that curtain, it makes me wish we'd installed one in the family room months ago.

Day three hundred and thirty seven.

Climb every mountain...


Lily through the bars.



Curtain call.