Last week's post finally made it up. Check it out here.
Gretchen cut another tooth last week, bringing her total up to 7. She would love to get some molars, if only so that she can better chew all the food that she eats.
Olivia has graduated to using a regular cup all the time (except for by her bed). She only spills if she's not paying attention and drinks too fast. She tries to drink one handed and/or while walking, but her mother usually spoils her fun and requires her to stop moving and use two hands.
Possession is apparently a verbally difficult concept. Here are some Olivia sentences from this last week:
"Leeba will pick up my shoe and the girl will put it on."
"She wants she's blanket."
"We got to get in we car."
Olivia sings songs about her daily routine. The other day, she came up with this one about the chapter books that she's supposed to leave on the shelf: "Don't touch the books, don't touch the books. High ho the dairy-o, don't touch the books. But I want to read a book, I want to read a book. High ho the dairy-o, I want to read a book." She also made up a song when Josef and Alison visited about how you have to say your prayer before you get up from the table. It even had an Amen chorus.
I didn't know it at the time, but it turns out that I married Bryan for his Excel prowess. I've been looking into buying some food in bulk and have been checking prices at various places. I had a messily written, scribbled all over piece of paper with prices on it and decided to organize it into an Excel sheet. I figured that I could manage the function that would calculate the price per pound of everything for me, but I wanted to have my sheet automatically tell me which store had the lowest price (and update itself if I changed anything). Not knowing if this was even possible, I asked Bryan. He told me it was incredibly quick and easy, sat down at the computer, typed in some complicated formulas like they were no more than the ABCs, and voila. Then he decided to add colors, as well as an automatically generated shopping list off to the side, complete with a "Create Shopping List" button that I can click whenever I update something. It's so cool. :)
Our attic has been getting progressively more cluttered. Part of the problem is that we keep getting more stuff, but most of the problem is that we just put new items in the first available spot instead of organizing them. During Gretchen's nap on Friday, Olivia and I went upstairs to tackle the second part of the problem. Our attic is now organized and open again. :)
I recently convinced Bryan to join me in a wardrobe downsizing challenge (side note: it turns out that the way to improve your chances of getting Bryan on board with a project is to present it as a challenge). We're keeping enough clothes to make it through at least a week, but no more than fit in half a dresser each. The rest of the clothes are being boxed up and put in the attic for when we wear out what we have. The extra dresser we free up by doing this will either go to the girls or up in the attic to be saved for the girls. I'm also hoping that this exercise will enable us to share a closet so that we can use the remaining closet for other things.
Pictures and Videos:
Videos, password BarhorstBrewed:
Olivia spent all her time one morning getting comfortable in this storage tub. It reminds me of when Justine and I stuffed Jacque in a doll cradle.
We got Gretchen bowls for Happy March this year. Best present ever.
Josef and Alison took some pictures:
Gretchen using the cart cover from Aunt Jacque:
Olivia got in a clothes basket and said, "Gretchen can sit here and then you can push us around." I thought this was something she learned from Bryan, but apparently she came up with it all by herself.
Olivia and Eva muscle me off the heater:
We put up some new pictures:
Venezuela! Bam.
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