April 15-May 13

Pictures from the last month.  We'll see if I'm on top of things enough to add words by next week.

Cousin pictures in Pittsburgh:

Matthias sleeping:

Gretchen in her new patchwork dress:

Matthias, eating a pebble:

Matthias examines Gwen:

Pictures from the zoo:

A balloon as big as Matthias:

Olivia made glasses:

My fabulous hairdo:

This giant pink ball is tasty:

Olivia plays soccer:

Kaitlyn and Walter:

Matthias and Dorothea:

The Barhorst girls do the Bossard flop:

Matthias and I were matching:

Attempts at a cousin train:

A Barhorst train!

Oatmeal for everyone:

Matthias and Dorothea were meal buddies.  Matthias would sample everything, and once Dorothea was confident it wasn't poisoned she would eat as well:

Kaitlyn and Walter played especially well together this visit.  They loved to swing and jump on the trampoline:

After getting great pictures of Kaitlyn/Walter and Matthias/Dorothea, we tried for an Olivia/William shot:

Big kids playing with locks:

A towel elephant!

Another zoo trip, this one with the first complete third cousin line-ups:

Bonus Post: Sound Bites 32

Me: Look girls, I see alpacas!
Kaitlyn: No, I think those are geese.

Gretchen: What if when Kaitlyn is as old as rain she shoots a thunder by accident?

Kaitlyn: Grandpa has five potties in hims house.
Me: Grandma and Grandpa have six potties in their house.
Kaitlyn: No!  Grandpa has five potties!  Look!  *pointing out the car window to a billboard*  There's a letter and it spells Grandpa has five potties.

Gretchen: Why is there so much jelly on my sandwich?
Me: You always want your jelly to go all the way to the edges, so I used a little extra today to make sure there were no empty spots so that you wouldn't have to complain.
Gretchen: But I like to complain.

Olivia, discussing potential occupations: I don't want to be a farmer because I don't want to do anything that will be a lot of work.

Me: Do you need to go potty?
Kaitlyn: No.
Me: Why are you dancing?
Kaitlyn: I'm not dancing.
Me: What are you doing?
Kaitlyn: I'm trying to not let the pee out.

Gretchen: When will we see the dead people again?
Me: Um, when we get to heaven?
Gretchen: No, when will we see them in our car?
Me: ...
Me: Oh, you mean a cemetery!  I don't know where the next cemetery is.

Me: It is possible.
Kaitlyn: Possible?!  I don't like possible.

Olivia: I'm so tired of sitting.
Me: Were you tired of sitting when you were at school?
Olivia: Yes.  I was tired of sitting and of walking.
Me: Walking?
Olivia: Walking to lunch, walking to change classrooms...
Me: So if you were tired of sitting and tired of walking, what did you want to do?
Olivia: Lay down!

Me: What letters do you know?
Kaitlyn: E. E. R. D. K. B. I. 2. D. O. I. T. Kah. Boo.

Olivia: Mom, can I make a toy for someone and put "From Ohio"?
Me: Made in Ohio?
Olivia: Yes, because China made some.  Kind of all of our toys were made in China.