Tehya was very excited for her first day at school all by herself.
Dan left the girls in the house alone for a few minutes while he went out to the garage the other day, and came back in the house to find this.
Dan got these pictures in his truck the other day with his cell phone....both girls were completely passed out! They must have had a long day of play at Mary Jeans!
Today Dad and both of his girls had some Xbox time together. Ada took her turn with the controller too and did a really good job. Tehya was very nice and helped her little sister with the buttons when it was her turn. Mom is for sure out numbered with this deal - three against one in favor of video games!
Grandma Diane stopped by for a visit Saturday afternoon and the girls had her go downstairs to play right away. Mom went down to switch a load of laundry and found that Tehya was performing "brain surgery" on Grandma. She said that half of Grandma's brain needed to come out for fixing and that it would only be 700 weeks of recovery. Ada was Tehya's assistant and did a great job of handing the pretend medical tools to surgeon Tehya.
This afternoon while Mom was grocery shopping and Dad was cleaning upstairs the girls decided to play downstairs. They were apparently feeling a bit on the creative side because Tehya climbed up the bookshelf in their playroom (scary!) and got the finger paints down. The girls did more than paint us a picture though - they painted the futon, the end table and some of the floor too! We couldn't help but smile...Tehya painted a beautiful picture and Ada painted most of her face! We also had to giggle when we saw the little Ada footprints painted on the floor! 
Saturday night Dad and Tehya thought they would build a fort in the kitchen. The dining room table was the base of the structure, and then chair backs and couches helped to build on additional wings.
Here is the breezeway between the main fort and the addition off back
Mom even got invited into the fort to check things out
Ada didn't think that Mom should be in the fort. She said "Momma out!"
The fort experience became even better when Dad gave the girls snacks. Tehya even slept in the fort overnight! (Ada decided that her bed was more comfortable than the kitchen floor!)
Tehya had a great idea the other night - she wanted to have a camp out in her closet! Of course this meant that Ada was going to sleep there too, so out came the blankets and stuffed animals!
It took quite some time to get the girls settled down for sleep. Neither Mom or Dad were very surprised by that, but we were surprised that the girls kept trying to close the closet doors on themselves!
Eventually both of the girls settled down and some sleep did happen. Well that is until Ada rolled over and hit her head on the wall!
Grandma Diane came over for a visit after work one night to play with the girls. She got roped into wagon pullin' duty right away!
Poor grandma really got a work out this night - the girls rode around the backyard for a really long time!
After wagon time a game of hide and seek broke out. Ada tried really hard to play, but she just didn't understand that she wasn't supposed to tell where people were hiding!
Tehya made my heart sing when she said she wanted a picture of just her and her mommy together! What a great feeling.
Dan told the girls to twirl their skirts. Ada promptly fell on her butt and giggled.
Tehya is a master skirt whirler and twirler. She showed us how to do it the right way!
Ada making a goofy face....which I love and which she does a lot!
More twirls!
I love this picture of Dan and the girls - they look like they just did something very silly together!
Tehya was very excited to model the second John Deere dress Aunt Shari made for her.
Ada thought it was pretty fun too!
This is one of my new favorite pictures of Ada. I think she looks so sweet and innocent here!
Tehya showing that she is taller than our lilacs. I told her to wait just a couple of years and she wont be able to say that anymore! Thank goodness they will grow faster than she will, I'm already nostalgic looking at what a little lady she is now! 
