Both of the girls like to be "Mommies" to each other. 
This email is from Steve:

Amara was not listening to me at Culvers this weekend and Maia said "He is the boss of you" to Amara. Amara replied "I KNOWWW MAIAAAA!"

The girls are creating such beautiful memories of their childhood.  The experiences they are having are enriching their lives and hopefully will carry them through adulthood. 

This email is from Pat.  The girls spent the weekend there recently:

I forgot about this until I was telling Dave this morning. Maia was reading to me and she pointed to a word and said it was a compound word. I was very impressed that she knew this. Later we were outside and were talking about the bird, titmouse. I said titmouse is a compound word. She thought about it and looked at me and said what is a tit? I searched my mind for an alternate meaning of tit, couldn't find one, and for sure wasn't going to tell her the slang meaning, so said whoops, I was wrong, it's not a compound word. When she's a teenager, or older, I'll tell her that story!
Mom