sister playtime

i know i have been saying it a lot lately, but the girls have been so ridiculously hilarious in their interactions with eachother lately. part of it is that Nova's personality has been exploding over the last couple of weeks. She spends a good portion of the day singing...real songs, made up songs, or just little phrases that she decides to put to music. it is so funny. One of the funny things they do is to make up non-sense phrases and keep repeating them until one of them totally cracks up. The other day at naptime Nova started saying something silly, like "snoozy woozy". Then juneau said it, then nova said it, and back and forth until cris finally went upstairs to tell them to be quiet. Juneau was laying in bed, trying to pretend to be asleep, but literally bursting with laughter that she was trying to contain through a straight face. it was so funny.
They get along well for the most part, but do get into some little spats. Sometimes Juneau will tell Nova to be quiet, and Nova's response will be to say indignantly, "Don't tell me that, Juneau. Only Mommy and Daddy can tell me to be quiet". it's so hard not to laugh when you hear that perfectly clear statement coming out of a little 2 year old's mouth.
Anyway, i started this post so i could put up a couple of pictures cris took this week. He was out working in the garage, and had kind of left the girls up to their own devices. When he noticed it had been awfully quiet for too long, he looked over to see this: the girls had completely independantly rigged up this little climbing route on the ladder. Nova had the rope secured around her waist, and Juneau was "Belaying" from the ground (notice her little gloves!)
When Cris realized what they were doing, he helped them swith the setup, to give Juneau a turn to "climb"

Nova took her job belaying seriously...never took her eyes off her climber.