Monday, October 19, 2009

Go Marnie, GO!

We brought Olive over to Auggie's house last night so they could play and wear eachother out. Marnie is in labor now, so keeping Auggie occupied is a good thing. Hopefully he is enjoying his last few hours of only-childness. They play pretty good together, the usual "MINE!" issue comes up every eight or nine minutes or so, but I guess that's to be expected.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Weird!!!

She called the Dinosaur Horace again tonight, totally unprompted by me. Freaky.

The Maryland State Fair



I know, I am just getting around to putting these up.

Cookie Time

How can you make this much of a mess from one Oreo?!

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Spooky Toddler Speak

OK. So she totally freaked me out last night. This was really weird. She's in the bathtub, we're playing with plastic dinosaurs.

"What's this one's name?"
"Dinosaur."
"No, that's what he is, but what is his name? Is it...Chris?"
"Ummm, yes. He's Chris."
"What is this one's name?" pointing to another dinosaur.
No answer. About a minute later,
"That one's name is Horace."
"What?" Thinking she just said 'saurus'
"Horace. His name is Horace."

This sent chills down my spine because Horace was the name of my grandfather who died in 1998. We were very close. He went by Spike, and in fact, Spike was going to be her name if she were a boy. I'm sure she just heard it somewhere or something, but come on, it's not a name you just hear every day. It was just plain spooky.

Today at daycare, Kristen was out of milk, and Ella had the last of it in her cup. Julian apparently goes crazy if you mention milk because he wants some, so Kristen told Ella not to say the word milk in front of Julian. Ella announced that she had "A cup full of 'M'." Olive, who was drinking water, turns around and says, "My cup has 'W'!" which made Kristen do a double take. How does she know this stuff?

She also announced tonight, "Volcano starts with 'V'."

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Letter Magnets

Yesterday, Kristen said they were playing in the kitchen and Olive was playing with letter magnets. She picked up an R and said, "This is an R!" Then she picked up an "M" and said, "This is an M!" and turned it over in her hands. "Or a W!"

Monday, September 7, 2009

Green Bean


Lime snowball at the zoo....