Lots of pictures!!

9/16
Greta ready for school.



She came home singing "Tuda Toda." That night Grandma finally got her to sing it for me, as well as a "Welcome to School" song. YAY!



Andrea playing also.



What Andrea was begging for just before bed - chocolate milk.



9/17
One of the coolest toys ever - a "Roly Poly Playground." When I was watching the potato bug didn't do that well. The ladybug we had in there the week before was fun! Climbing all over the bubble, up and down the toys, everywhere!





9/18
Andrea had her cousin eating grapes!





9/25
Thursday was the day Greta's teachers had asked that the kids come to school wearing yellow. The night before, just before I left for school, I had the great idea to make yellow bows for her. I got home after 9pm and was up till almost midnight. I got home from school Thursday morning to find Greta dressed up and getting her hair curled. What a pretty girl!! Not sure about her wanting to wear dresses to school pretty much every day, but it sounds like I did the same thing when I was her age.





After Greta got home from school (I was at work) the girls had fun with their Grandma and Aunt "Haha."







9/26
Thursday night I made a tutu, hoping that the girls would like it for pictures coming up. Neither girl seemed interested in it. Greta was busy wearing a fairy outfit for Halloween, and Andrea wasn't sure about stepping into the huge pile of fluff, so I wore it for awhile.



Then we put it on Andrea. She wasn't impressed.



I put it back on, wore it for awhile, even considered mowing the lawn in it (I didn't). Greta told me that it was an ugly dress-up thing. I almost cried.

Andrea had humongous (is that spelled right? Blogger's spell check isn't showing it's wrong) crocodile tears, so I pulled out my camera.



I don't know what she's eating. She had been eating the anchors from Marshmallow Mateys, but that doesn't look like a bunch of anchors. I loved the facial expression (she has a lot of fun expressions!) which is why I shared this picture.





9/27
With all the fun we seemed to have Saturday morning, it's really no wonder I ran out of time and had to rush to get the three of us ready for an appointment at 11:00am.









This was hard to get a picture of! I asked Andrea to show me her hands, then asked her to turn her hands around so I could see the messy fingers. She turned her body around instead. I'd get her the right direction, give the instruction again and she'd turn around. That happened a few times, and I finally just snapped a couple pictures.













I can't believe that I didn't get any pictures of Greta in the tutu! I was busy making another one (had to make sure that the girls approved of the white one after the fiasco with the original tutu) while they had a lot of their fun.





Now as I am hurrying to get this mostly together the girls are upstairs shouting at each other, and Greta said that Andrea made a mess with the toilet paper, pulling it all of. As far as I know that's a first for her. At least it only ended up on the floor.

Today I pulled out some flash cards that I had hoped would keep the girls busy while I made lunch. I don't think they hardly touched them. After dinner Grandpa started showing them to Andrea. She now uses quite a few words!! Swing, pink sock, boat, bed, pup (cup), rarr (lion - lol!), puppy, apple (not the right word for the picture, but it was red and similar in shape), moo (cow), eeeee (horse, and she says it high pitched). She said table, but I don't remember how she said it (close enough to know). She says red (when you ask her what color something is that's what she says - red), what, potty, wet, show, tootie (cookie), why, NO, bubble (also a nickname that Aunt "Haha" tried to get Andrea to call Uncle Chris. It sounds like she only called him "Bubble" once or twice), "Twis" (Chris. Only started saying this yesterday), Jean (Grandma's friend), yeah, yes, "teet" (drink), "tee-tee" (I don't know if this is kitty or blankie, because she has a kitty blankie), owie "tee-tee" (owie stinky. She is still copying Greta. Luckily Greta is over that one). She is even trying to immitate words a lot more the last few days. While reading a story tonight I asked her to say something and she did really good!

My teacher said....

A little while ago I was having Greta wash up in the restroom. Out of nowhere she said, "I have to ask Grandma where the doll is. My teacher said that one of the girls took the doll home. I have to take it back." I didn't know what she was talking about. The only doll I knew she had brought home was a paper doll she had painted and added yarn for the hair. I asked if that was the doll, and if her teacher wanted to hang it on the wall. "Yes." Ah-ha! I don't know why the teacher didn't just ask Greta where her doll was (her name was written on the back by an adult). Oh well.

Yesterday I was filling out a form for Greta's school. One of the questions was asking about her favorite activities. She told me finger painting, play dough, playing outside, and dress-up. I asked her what she thought Andrea's favorite activity was. My mom interrupted and said "potty!" I laughed. Why? Because it's the truth! Yesterday I came home from work to hear that she had sat on the potty about 25 times. I came home today to a much larger number (from my sister). And it's not us trying to potty train her. She says "po-ee" and we put her on it. Most of the time nothing happens, but she has had very few stinky diapers in a long time. Last night as I was putting the girls to bed Andrea said "po-ee" so I took her. She hadn't been sitting there for long when I heard a little tinkle. Wa-hoo!!!

Lots of exciting things!

Last weekend the girls had a sleepover with their daddy. Saturday they went to a local celebration. I had been out shopping and called to ask Greta which of a couple backpacks she wanted, only to find out that she was getting ready to get her face painted. When I was young and got my face painted it was a small picture (flower, heart, something like that). When they got home that afternoon this was what I saw.





I was shocked. I don't think I had ever seen a face painting like that before, but she loved it. She washed it off herself.





She thought it was good enough.



I did not agree.

This is how Andrea eats muffins if we don't stop her.





Greta's first day of school was Tuesday, September 9. We went to the school the Thursday before for an Open House for her to see her new class and meet her teachers. We stayed about 40 minutes (all the time I had before I had to get the girls back home so I could get to work). Greta cried when we left. School wasn't long enough!

First day of school:





Two days later she thought she had to wear the same school dress. Her grandma helped to convine her to wear a different dress, one that I wore when I was about her age!



And here's Andrea, excited to go to school. She got left behind with me (I can't easily drop her off before work without being late), her grandpa, and her aunt. She wasn't happy.



Two cute girls today after church. Before I got them dressed I thought their dresses were the same color. Oh well.

Silly Greta!

Greta drew a picture today of a witch's house. I was commenting on it, telling her how good it was when she told me that there were spider webs for carpet. What?! I though it was so funny and had no idea where in the world she would even come up with that idea. Turns out one of 500 or so books my mom had read to her today was a Donald Duck book with a witch (Madame Mim from the Sword in the Stone). I'm not sure if the witch's house had spider webs for carpet in the book or not. I'll have to scan in the picture tomorrow to share when it's not past my bedtime.