Halfway to 3!

Sunday was Reagan and Riley's half birthday....no, we didn't celebrate, but it just blows my mind that they are 2 1/2 already!!! Crazy! We've been so busy lately with school and playdates with friends and going to the beach and just life in general....I haven't had much time to update the blog! Here is just a snippet of what's new in their world!
The girls continue to just LOVE school so much. They ask me every morning if it's a school day! We are on Sabbatical from dance class. Yes, the first one was a huge success but I think we may have used up all of their excitement for it on the first class.  The typical dance class tended to go like this....everything would be fine for about 5 minutes and then Riley would look and see all of the moms staring through the window and then scream her head off for me the rest of the class until the teacher couldn't take it anymore and brought her out to sit on the bench with all of the moms.  Reagan could have cared less that I wasn't there or that Riley left, she also however, could have cared less about dancing. She pretty much spent the majority of the class staring at herself in the mirror and making kissy faces and funny faces at herself. While it was entertaining and hilarious to watch, it also made me question why I was paying money to have her check herself out in the mirror for an hour when we have lots of mirrors at home that work just fine. So....Matt and I decided we'll reevaluate in January and maybe try again. Or not. We'll see....soccer might be our thing instead. Ha!
We are in the midst of potty training. Some days I feel like they've really got it and we're seeing the light at the end of the diaper tunnel...other days (most days) they have absolutely no interest in attempting it. It's definitely a frustrating experience! I think it may be that I'm ready for them to be potty trained and they just aren't yet. Who knows?!?  A lot of my friends have suggested that one great way to insure that the girls won't have accidents is to just let them be naked whenever we're around the house. And it works. They love it but it's just such a weird thing to see the girls playing in their plastic princess high heels with no clothes on (see below...some day they'll kill me for putting that on here! At least Reagan has her pullup on!).  We'll get the hang of it one of these days...until then, just be prepared if you ring the doorbell!
In other news...the Browns are in first place so Matt and the girls are really excited about it (Grandpa David and Stephanie sent the girls new Browns shirts that they never want to take off)! We still go to the beach a few times a week (we've been getting a lot of rain lately though...) and the girls are just as fun as ever. Their favorite thing to do at the beach is make sandcastles with Daddy (anything with Daddy, really) and run and dive in the tidal pools...here's a video of Reagan doing it last weekend! All in all, LIFE IS GOOD!!!!!