post #21 of 21 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 pla