01 September 2013

August 25-September 1

We've partially fixed the bath problem.  I have a little baby bathtub seat that we used once with Olivia and then put away because it was easier to just plop her little self right in the water.  I rediscovered this seat when rearranging rooms and decided to give it a try with Gretchen.  Baths are now tolerable, at least for long enough that I can get her clean before she gets upset.

Time for the Peanut Story.  Once upon a time I learned that it's not very hard to make your own peanut butter.  It is, however, cost prohibitive, especially if you buy Aldi peanut butter like I do.  Having discovered this, I let the matter drop.  Then we went to Traverse City, and mom brought Kroger peanut butter.  As it turns out, Kroger peanut butter is not as sweet as Aldi peanut butter, so when we returned home my Aldi peanut butter was much too sweet for my taste.  Back to my research I went.  Perhaps I could buy peanuts in bulk and get a better price?  After much searching, I found NutStop.com and their raw redskin peanuts for $0.89 a pound.  Excellent.  To get the wholesale price, you have to buy at least 25 pounds of peanuts.  I started looking for people that might also want to make their own peanut butter.  The shipping ends up costing almost as much as the peanuts, so the deal wasn't as great as I wanted it to be.  Then I wondered, does shipping cost less if you buy more peanuts?  It does.  Up to a point.  After checking several price points, I learned that shipping is optimized at 73 pounds of peanuts.  Since it is apparently more ridiculous to me to not get optimized shipping than to have 73 pounds of peanuts show up on my front porch, I decided to order 73 pounds.  Now there are a lot of peanuts sitting in my basement (but they only cost $1.28 a pound after shipping!).  And that is the peanut story.

Gretchen can roll over all the way now, arms and everything.  She actually perfected this last weekend, but I didn't update my already written post to reflect her spectacular talents.  She still doesn't roll front to back, but I'm sure she'll get there.  Back to front is the hard one anyway.

Monday was check-up day, so both girls got weighed and measured.  Gretchen is 14 pounds, 6 ounces and 26 inches long.  Olivia was longer and fatter at the same age.  And speaking of Olivia, she is now 27 pounds and 34.5 inches tall.  Both girls are proportional (I'm not sure why the doctor tells me that every time...) and healthy.

Pictures and Video:
Bryan wanted to catch some of Olivia's words.  Here we have "octopus" and "music":
Olivia Talks 9

Olivia talks about the new book that she just got from Aunt Jan:

Someone got caught flooding the bathroom:

Gretchen helps with the laundry:


A birthday picture for Oma.  That's Olivia's latest on-command smile:

She gave up:

All my peanuts:

Olivia visited the playground after picking Uncle James up from school:

1 comment:

  1. Regarding the video: "Boogie" was music. Also, after rewatching, I think at the beginning she was staying "splash" (not "bless"). She never did say rubberband, so you didn't miss anything when the battery died.

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