• To run a preschool in Texas, you must be named Paula.
• I spent the entire day yesterday convinced it was Wednesday and not realizing it was Thursday. This is what happens when you have no contact with the outside world.
• If you take a highway long enough, it eventually turns into a dirt road.
• Me: "Look Rylee! Cows!" Rylee: "Are they real?"
• Me: "Look Avery! A horse!" Rylee: "I see an elephant!" Avery: "Me see elephant too! Turn around, Mommy! Me see elephant too!" Lots of unsubsided crying and disbelief that there is no elephant.
• There are few average looking people in Texas. Everyone is either quite ugly or really good looking.
• Be wary of letting your husband pick out your new refrigerator. It may stick out by half a foot and your two-year-old might bang her head on it while twirling around the kitchen.
• Dr. Rylee's scotch tape band-aids really do make mosquito bites feel better.
• There's no better way to get to know your children than sitting around the living room singing songs. Avery's request: "Old MacDonald Duck" and Rylee shared with us some Christian hymns she learned at her preschool that went something like this: "In h-is light! In h-is light! In h-is liiighhht!" (insert vibrato). And the other one: "Jesus loves me more than you do! And I love Jesus more than you!" I have a feeling she improvised some of the words.

We are happy and healthy. Except Avery still has hair sticking to her nose because she pulled out and lost the hair tie I'd found her.