Earlier this week, Olivia came looking for us in the middle of the night saying that something was coming into her room. She could not describe "something," but she was not pleased with its presence in her nighttime visions. Recalling the stories of my parents shooing dogs and chipmunks out of my room when I was younger, I dutifully got out of bed and went to shoo "something" away. Unfortunately, shooing was not sufficient and Olivia could not go back to sleep unless I stayed to keep her safe. Conveniently (???), Gretchen woke up during all of this and needed to be rocked a little to go back to sleep anyway. I stayed until everyone was calm and mostly asleep again and then left, turning on the kitchen light on my way back to my room. There followed a series of eventless nights, followed by a night where a bee apparently invaded. Bryan took a turn chasing bad things, went the light route much more quickly, and managed to stop the bee visions in mid-flight.
Ever since these nighttime visitors, Olivia has told me that we have an alligator trapped in our third bathroom. Perhaps if it's in the bathroom then it won't bother her anymore? We can hope.
Gretchen knows the sounds that ducks and horses make now. She is still consistent at identifying a dog as well. In other developments, she can find her nose, hair, arms, feet, mouth, eyes, belly, and sometimes ears.
Last weekend the girls and I went to visit the cousins. Olivia and William chased each other around the dining room table for hours at a time while Gretchen and Edward scavenged dropped breakfast Cheerios. Justine sent me pictures of the kids, but I have yet to get them up. Maybe next week. Jacque was there, too, so the we had fun with her (when she wasn't overwhelmed by the noise and chaos of 4 babies). Justine, Jacque, and I played Cubs Monopoly one night, and Jacque inadvertently crushed us, partly due to the fact that Justine and I refused to let her drag the game out indefinitely by being nice to debtors.
We may have lost one of Olivia's shoes on the way home. About an hour away from our house, I stopped in a gas station parking lot to retrieve dropped books/toys/pacifiers/blankets for the girls. When we got home, one of Olivia's shoes (which she takes off in the car) was nowhere to be found. So if anyone is traveling along state route 30 and happens to stop at a Speedway nearish Upper Sandusky (a few miles west of a rather convenient rest stop that we passed without stopping), please check the back of the parking lot for a white size 8 tennis shoe. :-P
We have new phones! While visiting Justine, Joseph, and Jacque in Pittsburgh, we went and changed our phone plan. We've all followed mom to the cheaper-but-less-reliable pastures of t-mobile and, in doing so, joined the smartphone world. I am, as it turns out, just as bad at answering my new phone as I was at answering the old one. It is exciting to be able to make whatever calls I want whenever I want without worrying about minutes, though. :)
Thursday was our 4th anniversary, and to celebrate we abandoned the children and took a trip to Cincinnati for the weekend. More on that next week. :)
Pictures:
Olivia asked me to build a tree out of Legos. Then she told me that this wasn't a tree. My work is so unappreciated:
I have no idea what Olivia was trying to accomplish here:
I woke up to Olivia sleeping like this one morning at Justine's (the red sleeping bag was her bed):
If you give the girls a box...
James thinks it is a good tree.
ReplyDeleteThank you, James. :) Was my tree the inspiration behind playing creationary the other day?
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