Busy Weekend...

Long story short, we hired a cleaning lady who started this weekend! She will regularly come on Mondays, but wanted to spend more time doing the initial "deep cleaning," so we scheduled it for Saturday. Once we got her started, the kids and I headed to my parents' house for the day while Gus headed for the airport (to leave on yet another business trip!). Anyway, I had fun with my camera, and took lots of cute pictures of my babies!





And then, when we got home, the house was immaculate. It was WONDERFUL! And even though the past few days have been busy, I have done my best to keep it clean. It makes me so much happier, coming home to a clean house!!

In other news, the kids continue to be unbearably adorable. They have started to sort of wrestle with one another, which (despite my best efforts to thwart it) delights them both to no end. In fact, Maya loves to start it! She will go over to wherever her brother is playing, pull up, and then grab him around the waist. He will grab her back and, before you know it, the two of them are rolling around on the floor, usually with Maya's head in some sort of half-Nelson wrestling move. And they just DIE laughing. Seriously, they both think it is just about the most fun thing in the universe. And trying to explain that "it's all fun until somebody gets hurt" doesn't really mean a whole lot to an almost-one-year-old and a two-and-a-half-year-old. Sigh. It really is pretty cute, though. And they really DO enjoy each other!

And when Nikos is not wrestling, he is busy learning amazing new words and new tricks. Most notably, he has learned to wipe his own nose! He will go into the bathroom, get a tissue or some toilet paper, wipe his nose, and then properly dispose of his trash. It's pretty darn cute, even if he is a bit heavy-handed with the TP. Still... it's progress! :)