E, F, CHEESE!

Adelaide and Eleanor are best buds. We love watching them play, squabble, work through squabbles, sing "Let it Go" at the top of their lungs and then take a goldfish break while discussing what color fins they would want if they were mermaids. 

Riding in their rocket ship together. 

 Photographic evidence that Adelaide

is the best big sister ever.

Sometimes they do this...  

Sisters gotta hug! 

Going for a walk with their

matching parasols. 

We love that they are so close. And, when this dynamic duo gets together, there is always lots of laughter. They are constantly cracking each other (and us) up. Here are the latest words of wisdom from our wisecrackers.

Adelaide: Mom, you remember those girls that didn't do a good job at work, and you put fire on them. Did you... kill them?

This lead to a nice lesson about homonyms.

Melinda: Rock-a-bye baby, in the tree top. When the wind blows the cradle will rock. When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall and down will come baby, cradle and all.

Eleanor: It break? My Daddy has hammer. My Daddy fix it.

Eleanor: A, B, C, D, E, F, Cheese! H, I, J, K....

Matt: Do you see that white car?

Eleanor: Yes! Where is it?

Eleanor: Mommy, put me down. I too heavy.

Melinda: You aren't too heavy.

Eleanor: Yes! Put me down, I too heavy for you.

Melinda: No, I'm strong.

Eleanor: No, give me to Daddy. I too heavy for you.

Adelaide: Daddy, look at this picture I colored!  That's you and me and our China baby in Virginia. And Mommy wasn't born yet.

Matt: Wait, didn't you come out of Mommy's tummy?

Adelaide: Yeah!

Matt: Well, how did you come out of Mommy's tummy, if she wasn't born yet?

Adelaide: Oh, well, I mean, I came out of a machine.

Adelaide: You can't plant mountains.

Eleanor: It too hot. I wanna be cold. Cold like a snowman.

Melinda: The last one in bed is a rotten egg.

Adelaide: Can I be the rotten egg?

Eleanor: Ad-dade cut my leg off!

Adelaide: What? No I didn't!

Eleanor: Yes! Sissy cut my leg off!

Adelaide: Mom, she's lying. I didn't do it!

Melinda didn't even have to look in her review mirror to confirm who was telling the truth.

Melinda: What do you want to do when you grow up, Eleanor?

Eleanor: Ummm... I want pinch baby toes!

Melinda: You want to pinch baby toes?

Eleanor: Yes. I want pinch em. Pinch baby toes.

Melinda: Stop licking your fingers. Eww, yuck.
Eleanor: It's my lotion!
Melinda: Spit is not lotion.
Eleanor: Yes, is lotion for my hands.

Adelaide: Everyone learns to go up on their tippy toes except the one with no feet.

Eleanor: My foot is broken. Need to throw it away.

Melinda: Do you girls want pasta for dinner?

Eleanor: I. don't. like. PASTA!

Melinda: I thought you guys liked pasta.

Adelaide: No, it is yucky.

Eleanor: NO PASTA! NO!

Melinda: What about spaghetti?

Eleanor: Ps-ghetti is my favorite!

Adelaide: I love ps-ghetti!

It's funny how quickly Eleanor can change from her monster growl to a sing-songy voice. Melinda didn't let them know it was the same thing. Why rock the boat? 

Adelaide: I miss you ten, no a hundred, thousand infin-ion!

Adelaide: I love you as much as a princess loves a prince!

Melinda: Wow! Thank you.

Adelaide: That's a WHOLE LOT!

Adelaide: Mommy! We made you a cake. It's a peach cobbler.
Matt: You weren't supposed to tell.
Adelaide: ...Oh, Mom, you know that peach cobbler thing? It's nothing.
Told to Melinda on the phone during a business trip that overlapped her birthday.

Melinda: If you had five oranges and gave three to Eleanor, how many would you have?
Adelaide: Two!
Melinda: If you had ten oranges and gave nine to Eleanor, how many you would have?
Adelaide: One.
Melinda: If you had twelve oranges and gave five to Eleanor how many would you have?
Eleanor: Have too many oranges.