The Calm After The Storm?

The past four days have been great! I mean, I did not find myself yelling and screaming at the girls but once or twice--that is a record. So, I'm wondering if I'm just calmer these days or if the girls have chilled out for awhile. I don't know, but I will take it! Emily and Savannah have been playing together very well and half of the time at the table they are throwing food or cups/plates/forks. Hey, it's not perfect, but a huge improvement. I hope that continues to improve as the tantrums have seemed to die down a bit.

Major news--the girls had their FIRST haircut yesterday. It took them forever to get hair, and now it's finally long enough to be in their eyes...and well it just didn't look very nice, so I took them to my hairdresser (also my babysitters' mom). They were so good. They both sat in the chair like big girls and sat still. Neither of them cried or fussed. The only sad part of that experience is that in my effort to get both girls out of the house and into the van before it started raining, I forgot my camera. My hairdresser let me take some pictures with her cell phone camera, but she's not sure how to get the pictures off of the phone--hopefully her daughters can help her figure it out. I did take a few pictures of the "after the haircut". I guess I'll just have to remember to bring the camera for the 2nd haircut.

Cute things happened today. Emily and Savannah really seemed to want to play with me a lot. They still ask if they can tackle me, so we did that for awhile and then they wanted me to tackle them. They think it's great fun and they just laugh and laugh when we do that. After that Savannah wanted to play Ring Around The Rosy. So we started to hold hands...except Emily did not want to hold Savannah's hand--so I suggested they get their large stuffed Eeyore and each hold one of his "hands". They liked that idea and were laughing the whole time we were playing. Eeyore is one of their favorite stuffed animals. We spendt the rest of the afternoon drawing, running up and down the hall, chasing our dog, Billy, and tickling each other. I am tired after all that. It was a good day. I hope to have many more like it. So yes, today I do like being a mom.