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Maureen is really into the princess thing. She's Snow White, plain and simple. We spend many hours looking for the seven dwarf's and when she finds them, they go in her pocket. Daddy is often Grumpy. Mom is always Happy. We try to play down Dopey; we don't want her to start calling other kids names. She has started sucking on her fingers a lot. I don't want to correct her too often because I don't want it to become a habit in her adulthood. I know it's a pacifier-replacement.

Rowan is still struggling with his bed. We are trying the cry for five-minutes, soothe him, cry for another five-minutes trick, and it seems to work every other night and in the first few hours of his slumber. He is eating things like peas and sweet potatoes. No signs of crawling yet, but we're not in a hurry.