Playground time with one of my favorite girls.

The professors

Reid loves to wear the Potato Head glasses. Harper has upgraded to the glasses that came with her doctor kit. And no, neither one likes me to brush their hair.

A message from a bathing Reid on her second birthday

Love the water-choking incident at the end ... I've been talking to her about her party (it's tomorrow) but big sister is definitely more excited about it than she is.

Harper's drawing

She said that it's a picture of her and Reid, getting ready to take a rocket ship into outer space to see all of the planets. This girl loves the solar system!

Harper's modeling debut

Can be seen here:
Little Wing
and here:
More Little Wing

Field Museum

 Reid made a drawing in the art area and then kept going to the mirror to show it to herself. She alternated between smiling, laughing or making a very serious face in the mirror. She was making a lot of people laugh!

 Harper busy at work uncovering a dinosaur fossil.

I love that we can get on the highway, drive for 20 minutes and be in the heart of Chicago, looking out over Lake Michigan. If we lived outside of New York, I feel like an outing to the city would require more thought and planning because of traffic, parking etc, but here it is very simple. I would prefer we could take the train, but today's high was 10 degrees so that wasn't happening. The girls and I went in to the Field Museum today. They had a blast checking out all of the exhibits and of course loved the family play area.

Fun at the Hamill Family Play Zoo

The girls love going here, I'm so glad it's not even 10 minutes from our house. They can paint their faces, water the plants, visit with animals, play pretend in the animal hospital, pretend to be birds in nests and many other activities.