March 22-29

I'm thinking that I'm going to spend the rest of this pregnancy hibernating instead of nesting.  If I save up enough sleep, I'll be well rested for the months after Hippo arrives.  That's how sleep works, right?  :)

Sometime while we were in Michigan, Gretchen figured out that Daddy's name is Bryan.  Now she periodically calls him Bryan (especially when she's around other people calling him Bryan).  When corrected and told that she should call him Daddy, she usually reverts to Bryan Daddy.  Olivia liked the new game for about thirty seconds, but now just helps tell Gretchen that no, his name is daddy.

The girls have started hiding from monsters.  Where is the best place to hide from monsters?  Anywhere, really, as long as you cover your face.  The ideal is to cover the face with a blanket, but in a pinch anything will do.  In the car Olivia will just bury her face in her hands and Gretchen will use her coat sleeves to keep the monsters at bay.  If you can't see them, they'll certainly never find you.

I've decided to take control of my dishes by instituting a new policy.  For every dish that gets washed by hand (for dinner or whatever), at least one bonus dish must also be washed at the same time.  The hope is that this will get a handle on our dishes that need to be washed by hand.  The dishwasher dishes tend to get done regularly (though not daily), but the hand washed ones just sit on our counter for weeks at a time.  :(

Taxes are done!  I finished up the city taxes on Tuesday and got them in the mail.  Fun fact: We do not live in Lima.  Technically, we live in American Township, which means we do not have to file Lima taxes.  ...Except that my orchestra work is in Lima, so I still have to file Lima taxes.  :/  Just my Schedule C, though, so that's not too bad.  And next year we won't have to file Springfield taxes at all, so hooray for that!

Kaitlyn was born on Friday!  More on that in a bonus post later this week...

Pictures and Video:
Video (password BarhorstBrewed):
Bowling

Gretchen's ponytail:

The girls get their nails painted (Gretchen kept moving her hands, hence the tape):

Fabulous Gretchen reads a book to her baby (anyone have a guess as to what book it is?):

The girls were "napping" on the kitchen floor.  What a great picture: