While I still can...

...I thought I'd do a snapshot or two of daily pre-Joshua life. With a nod to Gabrielle's "3 Things a Day," here are a few things from this week:

• Cici has developed a new food favorite--bagels and cream cheese! It started with cream cheese--she often has a hard time sitting down to her booster seat, so I'll stick something on her tray right away that I know she'll eat (peaches, berries, cheese), and then I'll introduce whatever food I've actually prepared.Well, we were at the end of our grocery cycle, which means no cheese, no berries, no canned fruit, so I pulled out some cream cheese and she loved it! She loved sticking her fingers in it, she loved eating little finger-fuls, she loved smearing it on her tray. So the next grocery trip, I picked up some small bagels, spread them with cream cheese, and voila--a lunch that Cici will gobble up!
• Speaking of food, we have a little bit of a dinner-time battle with Polly. My little big girl feels very capable of getting her own food, which I generally don't have a problem with. But we are trying to teach her to stay at the table during dinner and actually eat the (generally nutritious) food that we fix. Polly, however, will pick out the little bits of the dinner that she likes (the meat from the spaghetti sauce, for example) and then ask to be excused, only to come back 20 minutes later asking for an apple, a tortilla, more food. She can have a bedtime snack, but when her bedtime snack is bigger than her dinner, I'm worried that I'm instilling bad food hygiene. We have a "kitchen is closed" policy, but this is still a battle that seems to happen every night. Advice?
• Our outing for today was going to the Colosseum (the WVU basketball arena) for an "exercise walk" through the concourse. The girls, however, were not interested in staying in the stroller so Mommy could walk baby Joshua down into the birth canal. So mostly the girls ran around the stadium stairs, played in the turnstiles, and finally stayed still long enough for me to get two vigorous laps around the arena. Oh well. Something is better than nothing, right?
• And really, how can my heart not melt when I see this: