Cousins (and Poppy)

Here are some cute photos also from Mother's Day. In the first one it looks like Maggie is entertaining two members of her fan club. Jack's expression is priceless (so was his outfit - it was from a collection at Janie and Jack called "Gentlemen on the Green"). If you could see better you could tell that his visor, shoes, and shorts all matched and coordinated with his shirt. It just made me smile to see him!
I thought this one was so cute, too.

Maggie also has a new friend, Pepin. Pepin shows up in many of my conversations with Maggie, sometimes as the hero and sometimes as the villain. Today Maggie said that Pepin was her husband, but earlier this morning she referred to Pepin as female and said that she made Maggie get sick. As you probably figured out Pepin is Maggie's new imaginary friend. I'm not sure why she chose to name him/her "Pepin" but the only place we've heard the word Pepin is in the preschool version of the "Little House on the Prairie" stories that we read a few months ago. In those books Pepin is mentioned once or twice as the town in Wisconsin that the Ingalls lived in before they moved out west. Maggie must have just liked the way the word sounded.

This morning Maggie asked me, "Is my daddy your husband?" I said yes and that's when she told me that Pepin was her husband. I thought it was a pretty intelligent question for her to ask me though.

In other news, as of tomorrow my baby sister is a DOCTOR!!! This is my sister who decided at about age eight that when she grew up she wanted to be a pediatric oncologist. Well, she dropped the oncology part but has decided to specialize in pediatrics. I mean, who actually follows the career plans they make as a child?! If we all followed our childhood career plans there would be a lot more firemen and astronauts. Anyway, I'm so proud of Lindsay and her husband Jim (who will also be a doctor in two years) and all the hard work they've done. Congratulations, Dr. Lindsay! (Okay, so no one will call her Dr. Lindsay but I don't want to put her last name on the internet without her permission, so you get the idea...)