The grils

My brother used to call my sister and me "the grils" when he was a toddler. I wonder what Luke will call his sisters.

I was just looking at my post subjects, and I noticed I had 10 posts about Amanda, 10 about Eleanor, and 28 about Luke. I do apologize for not writing more about the girls, but frankly I'm not likely to write tons about them any time soon, for some good or bad reasons:

• Luke actually takes up much more of my attention. Eleanor is at school, Amanda is remarkably self sufficient, but Luke needs constant watching. Since I watch him more, I see more of what he is doing.
• Luke changes visibly every day. Just today, as I was dropping him off at church, he clung to me tightly instead of going to play happily---that was new as of today. Eleanor and Amanda are changing, but much more slowly and less obviously.
• Luke is much cuter than his sisters are right now. His changes are almost all pleasant and interesting, while Eleanor and Amanda are in the process of becoming their own persons and their changes are quite often not attractive. You really don't want to hear too much about Eleanor's temper tantrums and Amanda's fierce looks and ignoring us, but that's what we're thinking about with them.
• Michael and I already have almost two years of almost daily journals from Eleanor's first two years. Luke deserves some too. (Amanda deserves some too, but it is too late. I think that the middle child almost always gets gypped, and I'm sorry about that =(.)
  
• Amanda is very very quiet. I wish I could post the things she says as she tries to make sense of the English language, but I manage to forget them as soon as she says them. I will try to write them down so you can enjoy them as well.

Like I said, good and bad reasons. I do write about all 3 of them using the "kids" label, which has 23 posts, so you are not entirely in the dark about the girls. Maybe when school starts again I'll have time to write more about all 3(ha!).