Favorite Things: 2 Years 4 Months

It is amazing how much Emma and Ella have changed in the past 4 months (since their Bday). Here is a list of their new favorite things:
Thomas the Tank Engine: every morning we watch Thomas on TV while Mommy gets dressed.Thomas and Percy are our favorite engines. We also like Harold the helicopter.
Babies and Puppies: We like to take care of our babies and animals. We feed them, wash their clothes, give them baths, and put them to bed. We especially like to take them for walks in their strollers. Most importantly, we take them everywhere we go, and we have to have our babies and puppies when we go to sleep!
The Pool: we love to play in the baby pool, and we also like swimming in the big pool with Daddy. It is really funny when we fall in the pool and get all wet!
ABC Magnets: we love to play with our fridge magnets. We sign along with the letter songs, and point out letters everywhere we see them.
Songs: we love to sing our favorite songs. We know all the words and motions to: Wheels on the Bus, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Row Row Row Your Boat, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Ring Around the Rosie, and Head Shoulders Knees and Toes.
Books: Ella's favorite book is Time for Bed, Biscuit and Emma's is Thomas the Tank Engine. We read them every night before bed. We also both like Goodnight Moon.
Puzzles: we love puzzles. We can do the kind with the little knobs and some wooden puzzles with big pieces.
Art: we love to draw, color and paint. We also love stickers. When we are outside, we like to draw with chalk. Sometimes we draw all over the furniture on the deck. Luckily, chalk washes off in the rain!
Food: we've discovered milkshakes and cookies. MMMmmmm!!!
Outdoor Toys: we like to play outside on the deck. We like the Sit and Spin, the sand table, blowing bubbles, the teeter totter, and the slide. We also love to climb, but we need a bigger play set, and we like our tree swing - it is fun to sit in it together.
TV: we have also discovered TV. Mommy will only let us watch a little bit each day, and we have our favorite shows. We like to watch Sesame Street, Thomas the Train, and Wonder Pets. We still like our Baby Einstein videos - we usually watch them in the car - and now we also like Little Einsteins. We like it when rocket takes off on a mission.
Dress-Up: we like to dress up in our winter hats and mittens in the middle of summer, we like to wear Mommy and Daddy's shoes, and we like to wear our princess/fairy skirts and wings. We also love to wear chunky necklaces.
Jumping: we love to jump! We jump on the ground and on Mommy and Daddy's bed. We jump on the couches, even though we're not supposed to! We even jump in the pool. We also love to jump on Mommy and Daddy!
Bailey: we love to play with Bailey. We like to hug him and give him a kiss, and we like to throw the ball so he will go get it. Bailey is 12 years old, and sometimes we want to play with Bailey, but he doesn't want to play with us! We are learning to be gentle when we play with Bailey so we won't hurt him. We call him "Be".
Planes and Trucks: We are fascinated with planes
and trucks. We point and say "up, plane" every time a plane flies over our house, and we see trucks everywhere when we ride in the car. Emma makes a very good "whoosh" noise when she shows people how a plane takes off.
Buttons: we love to play with Mommy's button collection. We sneak into Mommy's room and line up all the buttons from the button bowl on the bed. Sometimes Mommy gets out the button jar and we sort the buttons in ice cube trays or muffin tins. It is a lot of fun - there are so many ways to sort buttons!
Bugs: Ella is fascinated with bugs and other crawly things (like worms). She picks them up to show them to Mommy, and usually squashes them and then cries because they don't move anymore! Oops!
Boo-Boos - Emma and Ella get a lot of boo-boos, especially Ella. Mommy has to kiss all of our boo-boos to make them better (no matter how small), and sometimes, Ella kisses her own boo-boos!

Some Things We Don't Like:
sand on Ella's feet
sharing our toys (although sometimes we do)
going to bed
stinky diapers
most veggies
shopping
dirty hands or feet
bees (any flying bug) in the house (but they're OK outside)
thunderstorms
vacuum cleaners
Mommy's hair dryer
strangers