Ha ha!

Happy Veronica, with popcorn. She is driving me mad. Let's see - last night, she woke up at like 11:00 and cried, I went in and hugged her for a minute and then put her back down. I swear I wouldn't notice except she woke up like two minutes after I checked on Anthony. It's like we are never free of them and their crying, even for a minute. Well. We usually get a six hour period out of 24 that's child crying free, but that doesn't seem great.

Ugh, I can just hear people - "well, what do you expect? They're little kids!". I know they are. I KNOW. I also know that it sucks for them to sleep so badly. Today Veronica slept until like 7:00 or something, but then she fell asleep after we went to the mall and before we went to pick up Maria. Then they BOTH fell asleep on the way back from Maria's preschool and that was it for naps. Veronica slept the whole time we went to get Anthony, which is kind of late in the day for a nap, so God only knows what will happen tonight.

She is still not saying any words, and she just signs her own sign language, but she is communicating more.
She certainly gets what she wants, anyway.  This picture is from Sunday, but now it's Tuesday.  This morning Veronica woke up before 5:00 and her sweet father got up with her.  I took the girls to a bounce house place nearby and we had a good time.  It is super hard for me to go with both of them - Maria is getting pretty good at going around on her own but she still needs me sometimes and Veronica wants to do everything, but can actually do nothing on her own, so that results in a lot of work for their old-ass mother.  But it was fun - we met my friend Stephanie and her girls, her youngest is just Veronica's age and it's funny, they seem to have absolutely no interest in one another.  Her older girl is more than a year older than Maria but they seem to get along well so it was fun, overall, just hard.

It was funny - at one point we followed Maria into a complicated slide, it was like a .. what do you call those things, they have them in the Army and in Battle of the Network Stars?  Obstacle course, maybe?  Anyway, up and down up and down we went over these slides and then we got to the last one, which was HIGH and there was just no way that I could climb it with Veronica and I couldn't climb it and then get her because it was up too high.  Plus there were about 50 people in the place, and 48 of them were in this damned slide.  So Veronica got a little freaked out and was crying and crying and we were going BACKWARDS out of it and all these damned kids were rolling over us, sheesh.  It was a HOT mess but she recovered.  We got home at like 11:30 and they are both still sleeping, so basically what I am saying is that bounce house place could charge like $20 each and I'd pay it.