When you're the best of friends . . .

I have worried in the past about my kids getting along together. There's a big old gap between Lydia and Jacob, and almost none at all between Jacob & Ellers. But ever since Gabe was born, they have all suddenly become the best of pals, and I am so grateful! That's not to say that they don't squabble plenty . . . This is an idea I stole from my sister Lou--lunch in a muffin tin, and it has been a big hit. And we're having a "picnic" on Mommy's bed because it was too cold outside and Gabe was sleeping.

Eleni wakes up at the crack of dawn, every single day, and is hungry. She eats with Lydia before school (this is her waiting at the counter--"Mommy, I HUNNNGY!). She eats again whenever Jacob wakes up. And by the time I get around to eating breakfast, she says, "I sit by yooo!" meaning she wants to eat my breakfast as well. Like her mother, food is definitely her comfort!

Jacob got a big kick out of Eleni's hair. Now I have to do it every time we wash it.

Lydia is my best helper! Without being asked, she'll pick up a crying Gabriel, put her feet on his bar, and "fly" him in the air . . . until he spits up on her. Then she's done being a helper, because--ew, Mommy, that is sick!