Say Cheese, Pooh!

She is a funny thing.  We had a showing yesterday and I was cleaning the house and put this little Pooh and another one in a bag and of course, they are into the bag today, playing with their long lost toys that they never played with before.  Anyway, I had the camera out and Maria said "Come on, Pooh!  You have to say cheeeeese".  She is a real model lately, right?  She had a good week, loved school, the usj.  She has been sleeping just okay.  What usually happens at bedtime is that we give them all baths and then say our prayers while we are getting Maria ready.  So sometimes our prayers are punctuated with "stop that, Maria!", or "wait a MINUTE, Maria!", but we get them said.  We have done this spiritual adoption of priests, so we always pray for our priests with Maria.  Anyways, then we look at a book for a minute and then Mike puts Maria down and I put Veronica down.  Veronica has been a little cry-y lately, right before sleep, but the minute she makes the TINIEST peep, Maria starts screaming like her hair is on fire.  I used to stay in there and try and make V be quiet, but now I just put her down, tell them both good luck, and take off.  She is sometimes still up once in the night, one of us (usually Mike, I have to admit) goes in and tells her to lie down and she goes right back.  I think she is just checking that we are still there.  We are, Maria.  Because that is the law.  :)