More hilarious than ever

So I'm sad I haven't been blogging more lately. I've been all over the place and not feeling the muse much I guess. That said, Sarah and Jessica are more hilarious than ever lately. I share things about them on Facebook occasionally, but I thought I'd capture some of the recent exchanges from tonight.

This morning I took Jessica to the dentist. We had a long talk with the dentist about stopping sucking her thumb. I recruited the dentist to not just talk with me, but to Jessica too. She gave her a calendar with attached stickers, which she could earn for every day she didn't suck her thumb, and she said if Jessica brought it back full of stickers she would get a special toy. Jessica said she would do it. And truthfully it is something Jeff has been talking to her about for a while, so I thought I would go along with it (oh and did I mention that the hygienist gave me horror stories about an 8-year-old with multiple appliances in his mouth to stop him from thumbsucking and what a battle that was). Tonight as soon as we got in the minivan Jessica start to suck her thumb, I reminded her that if she didn't suck her thumb she would get a sticker.

Immediately, Sarah said, "I don't suck my thumb. I get a sticker!" Um... should have seen that one coming. Darn it! I told her if she used her manners all day, she would get a sticker. Now I need to make her a calendar, and I'm thinking I'm going to switch that to not using her whiney/commando voice.

Meanwhile Jessica demonstrated that she hasn't quite mastered negotiations yet. She was asking for yogurt and I told her she had to eat four bites of her Jambalaya first. She looked at me with her sternest face and said, "No , five!" and she held up all five fingers. I said OK.

She and Sarah have been playing this ongoing game of pretend where one girl is Mommy or Puppy. Fortunately, Sarah fed her the last two bites of Jambalaya to get to five and then Jessica didn't want the yogurt anyway. At the time Sarah was Mommy and Jessica was the Puppy. Whoever is the Mommy feeds the Puppy bites of food and now not only do they sit adjacent to each other at the table, they slam their chairs next to each other and sit at the end of the table together. And since one girl is the puppy, naturally they call me Jessica. It is all very hard to keep track of. Fortunately, they are willing to set me straight as needed.

And I only care about jamabalaya v. yogurt because they would eat yogurt at ever single meal - and I'm anti wasting food that has been served. So there you have our evening tonight, save the fight over endless access to shampoo in the bathtub, which would have drained the entire bottle, and the hysterical laughter over playing "Super Sarah" and "Super Jessica" where the girls get to balance on my feet while they pretend they are flying like superheroes - just like I did when I was little. I love 3. I'm scared to death of 3.5.