October 19-26

I'm drawing a blank on the things I wanted to mention this week, so this entry is rather short.  Perhaps I'll remember for next week.

Gretchen's new vocal talents include "Amen", elephant sounds, monkey sounds, "bowl" (which means plate), "spoon" (which means fork), and the word "poop."  The latter is generally not in context; I think she just likes to say it.  She's also started counting: "two, two, two, two, two."

Olivia discovered this week that if she turns in circles, "the house moves!"  Gretchen thought this was a brilliant discovery, and they've been making themselves, I mean the house, dizzy.

When asked what she wanted to be for Halloween, Olivia gave her standard answer: "I don't know."  Bryan and I decided that she wanted to be a fairy princess.  In green, of course.  I bought the materials and Olivia pestered me about turning them into a dress for two weeks.  When I finally produced the dress, she put it on immediately.  At the writing of this blog post, she has worn the dress non-stop for three days.  I do make her get dressed in real clothes in the morning, and she usually wears the dress over them.  She's also not allowed to wear dress-up clothes to the store.  Other than those restrictions, though, the dress has been her constant companion.  Good thing it's washable.

Pictures:

On the rare occasion that we go to Menards, Olivia wants to stop and look at the Christmas display for as long as I'll let her:

Gretchen's eyes were looking particularly not-brown to me, so I tried to take a picture to show Bryan.  It didn't really work:

Olivia dancing in her Halloween dress:

Some people have pets that climb on the table and spill water.  We have a Gretchen:

The girls wearing their crowns at Grandma's house: