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Monday: My best friend was visiting from Boston. Both DDs loooooove her. She read them a ton of books, did some word searches with DD1, played some games (Elephant Something...I'm blanking on the name....and Memory using picture cards I got at a Mother Goose course).

Tuesday: BF left. DD1 started making up her own Dora adventures and everyone in the family got a part. The poor cat always wound up being Benny, who never has any good lines. (DD2 is Swiper because he's her fave...I think it's because she truly believes he's a cat, and she loves cats.) One involved going to Popsicle Island.

Wednesday: I introduce DD1 to the idea of valentines, and she insists on writing her name and her friends' names on 11 or 12 of them. Then she makes more for the entire family and anyone else she can think of. It's cute. It snows a ton here and DH and the kids make brownies from scratch.

Thursday: She and DH "play" Blue's Clues by drawing clues on paper and cutting them out, then putting them in strategic places around the house and trying to guess what the other person is thinking of. There's a lot more writing of letters, including a shopping list. We also talk about brains and local anesthetics...though that might have been another day. Probably was.

Today: they are at a friends' house and have been there for 4 hours now. DD2 has a cold and slept like %*$& last night...poor kid. DD1 has the same cold but DD2 sometimes gets a cough and wheezes and DD1 never does.

We have tons of snow here but it's 9 degrees....too cold to play! Maybe tomorrow - it's supposed to get into the 20s.