birdie eats pizza at 14th and U
We picked the U street post office on Friday over the one on Florida and Conn. They are two different worlds. U street is very DC, very city, very urban bullet proofed glass, let's look at dead rats. Florida and Conn. is all sweetness and light compared. U street was the right choice because we got to watch a bird eating a jumbo slice of pizza for a long time. Ani learned to say, "birdie eats pizza (but she says patzzza)." On the way home, the pizza abandoned and the girls yell, "birdie nummies, patzzza!"

the same face so close
Rachi likes to put her arms around your neck as she falls asleep. She holds your face very close to hers and smiles with closed eyes. I do this with Anya, too, to find that they have the same face as they sleep, so close up. Like little clay trolls, all cheeks and eyes. This is strange, but wonderful.

one little cake and some blueberries
the girls love raisins, but call them blueberries. they run to the kitchen screaming, "blueberries, blueberries, BLUE berries." Their play has gotten so much more complicated in the past week. I wish I would have seen these changes coming. They sit and feed plastic food to plastic people. They fight over the only two pieces of plastic food that we have, a small pink cake and a small bowl of actual blueberries. They say, "bunny, babies, cake, nummies, blueberries." Then someone wants the cake and bites her sister on the face to get it.

Send me your old plastic food if you are done with it.