first day of school, take two

I know that many of you prayed for Julianna's first day at school today. Thanks for loving our family! Unfortunately, Julianna didn't get to go today. There is a required health exam for all kids who want to go to preschool, and Julianna did hers on Friday. Monday morning Matt went back to the Children's Hospital to get her results and one of the numbers on her blood work was flagged .... she needed to be re-tested. So, that afternoon (Monday) instead of registering for school, her blood was drawn a second time for re-testing. We got her results back this afternoon - no worries and she is set to go.

Now we plan to register tomorrow afternoon and her first day will be Thursday morning. She has been anticipating the first day of school for two weeks now, so a brief delay wasn't too significant....

Other than the brief school delay, we've been having great times around the house. During Lydia's morning nap Julianna spends a chunk of time playing by herself in the living room. Yesterday she was really quiet and I started to wonder what she was up to... peeked around the corner and this is what I saw -

She was sitting in her little chair, her feet up on a footstool, just relaxing. Apprently playing is harder work than I thought!

One of her favorite games to play while Lydia naps is "cards". When Julianna plays "cards" she lays them out on the carpet and finds special ones. Cards that qualify as "special" include the 2, the Jack and the 10. She refers to the 2 as "my number" (she's two years old). The Jack is "my letter" (J for Julianna) and the 10 is "Lydia's number" (Lydia is 1, and the ten has a 1 on it, so that counts in Julianna's book).

Poor Lydia, there is no L in a deck of cards, so she has to settle for only four special cards, while Julianna racks up 8. Of course, the whole point is to play cards while Lydia sleeps, since Lydia messes up the stacks and eats the cards. Lydia is never aware of her "special card" deficit.



Speaking of Lydia, she enjoyed a "first" of her own yesterday evening.... first Oreo. The photo speaks volumes as to why Oreos are a bath-night-only food. I only wish you could see her other ear, it was caked in Oreo slime.