Little girls miss their big sisters

 Modeling mom's super-high heels, and Sara had to be in the picture

Since school has started, the dynamic at home is very different. Abby and Isabel head to school at 8 am and return at 3:15. So all day it is just my little ones.  When all of them are home, everybody seems to play together, but when it is just Whitney and Sara, not so much.  Sara has preschool Tuesdays and Thursdays in the morning.  Whitney tends to just hang out with me and not want to go anywhere. Which is fine most of the time, but not always.  Sara wanders like a lost lamb.  She just doesn't know how to entertain herself after 4.5 years of having someone to play with.  So it is a process.  She always wants to play at a friend's house. She gets bored very easily.  She and Whitney fight sometimes.  They also do play a game where Sara is the baby and Whitney is the mom and takes care of her.  Sometimes they play dolls.Whitney is speaking more clearly and definitely has an opinion.  She is a sweet girl. She is into Dora, and lately has been changing clothes every 5 minutes. she knows exactly which drawers to get a shirt and pants out of, and she likes her sisters' dresses.  She also wears shoes all the time.  Today, she is wearing (as her 3rd outfit) Some jeans, with Sara's swimsuit on top of that, then Isabel's shirt over top, and some sandals she found that are huge.  She also has her two piggytails in, at her request.  I am still figuring out if it is a nature or nurture thing. Do two year old boys care this much about clothes and hair?  Whitney is working on potty training, but we are not even close to done. If I put her on the toilet she will complain and then pee, but she doesn't do anything else and she won't tell me when she has to go.  She is so smart and we love listening to her and watching all the things she is doing.
Sara is getting bigger. She recently figured out how to use the mouse and gets onto computer games herself (we have tabs with the few websites they can use). So she loves to do that. She almost knows all her letters, and can write her name. She is learning sign language at preschool and seems to like that.  She still struggles in church, going to her class but I keep hoping she will grow out of it.  She is doing well at school and no major problems, so I am relieved about that. She definitely can have her own opinion and create some drama. Sometimes it drives us crazy, other times you can't help laughing.  It seems like a preview of the teenage years, but I am still holding onto the hoope that she will get it out of her system young....  we love our Sara.  So days are a little more simple at home, but also a lot more hands on with out the big girls to help entertain.  We shall see how it goes now that the weather is getting cooler.