*the girls playing with messy oobleck for an hour

*seeing them make a bed and "sleep" next to each other in Gracie's cardboard house

*Madelyn patiently trying to put on a winter hat and mittens

*Madelyn telling Jim at supper that Lily tried to eat a cricket

*the fact that Gracie thinks she made the electricity go off by having a crying fit

*hearing Madelyn call Daddy "Jim" at breakfast to get his attention--I wonder where she learned that?

*playing house and doctor with the girls

*anxiously awaiting the news of our friends' baby's arrival