Camille loves gymnastics every week. These are some pictures that we found from her first day back in January. She's getting better every week, though her attention during class is fleeting. She loves to show off her Princess leotard to everyone. 
Matt worked in Houston this week and Camille went with him to stay with Nana and Papa. It's been quiet around the house with just Lily and me. Tonight when we arrived home Lily immediately found the little couch that Grandma brought by from her neighbor. Lily plopped down on it with a bag of cheerios and wouldn't get off for anything. She finally did agree to eat supper. Afterwards, Lily got back on the couch and hollered for me to get all these animals on the couch with her. I don't know how Lily's going to feel about making room for Camille. The couch will unfold into a bed. When I tried this, Lily screamed like I just threw her favorite blankie to the wolves. Once I put it back to the couch, Lily calmed down and re-seated. 
Uncle Mike got to join us in Carthage this trip, and we all enjoyed seeing him. Camille was Mike's tag-along outside. His cute little puppy, unfortunately not captured on film, was an added attraction. Lily played coy and ran to him and away from him repeatedly. It was a day full of fun. 
Lily loves playing with stuffed animals. She insisted on carrying the big dog around the house.
Lily loves to play outside, especially going down the slides. 
Camille is still young to grasp the idea of dinosaur bones. She'll ask lots of concrete questions, but she was minimally impressed with the dinosaur skeleton. I just noticed that Mr. Dino is grasping a big prehistoric bird. She did like digging through sand with paintbrushes like an archeologist.
Both girls enjoyed the water table but we had to quickly move along before all of us became soaked. Lily loved the rocking horse and Camille rode around on a tractor tricycle.
Camille and Lily had a ball at the children's museum. Lily especially loved "planting seeds" (repeatedly getting golf ball "seeds"and putting them in holes in the floor). They both filled their baskets with harvested produce and sorted them at market. It's an impressive set-up there. 
Camille is a proud pre-kindergardener, sporting her Primrose School uniform.
Camille loves to listen to books on tape from the library. She's now able to use them nearly independently.
When I tried to take their picture together, it proved more difficult than you would think. In these out-takes you can see that they're both very silly and constantly moving!
Camille has been so sweet recently, sharing snacks with Lily. In the back seat of the car Camille passes grapes to Lily, who hollers for "ma ma," which means "more." In this first picture you can see they both thought it would be fun for Lily to eat right out of Camille's hand.
Don't get too excited, our new family member has fins and gills. Camille named "her" Percy (though the pink Betta fish is actually a male). Percy is adjusting well to adoption as a Smith and has really perked up since Grandpa gave some live plants to accessorize his tank. 
