Having many toys in the sand makes us the coolest kids at the playground!

Intense girl with bongos and brother

I love her intense face where she sticks out her chin. She makes that face all the time. And I do too. These things are funny because I thought I was choosing to make that face, but clearly it's deeply genetic. She has a lot of aspects of my personality. I want to say I'm sorry to her about some of those things! I feel bad because I see that intensity and intelligence and sensitivity and I know that sometimes those characteristics made life more difficult. But she is so awesome, I just have those feelings for a second. Mostly I just admire her and enjoy her. Finn and Olivia and I went to the "park" today, which is what we call the field and jungle-gyms at the elementary school across the street from us. She was running and fell and skinned her knee, only a little. She shook it off and didn't cry. Finn was nervous about going down the big slide, but later climbed up on the jungle-gym that I thought was too big for him and he did it like 3 times and went across a shaky bridge by himself and went down the slide. One time I was helping Olivia and then suddenly Finn was up on the apparatus and the only way he could have gotten up was climbing these huge round steps. I praise then a lot when they are doing all these things, and I play and act goofy. I try to be in the moment, and get over my anxiety about not capturing all these cute moments on camera. Finn also pulled the big red wagon with Olivia in it. I just love them tons.