O & So

Olivia's recent passion is watching "Country Mouse and City Mouse" videos (which she calls "Crunchy Mouse"). She spends much of her day pretending she is Jeanie, a guest character in one of the episodes. I'm happy to report that Jeanie is a brave little girl who rescues her dad from jail. For some reason there are only two scenes that Olivia likes to act out. The first is when Jeanie is on her knees, covering her face, and crying. The other involves Jeanie falling down and saying "Ouch!". Who knows, maybe there is an acting career on Miss O's horizon. Sophia continues to be on the verge of crawling. She is getting better at lifting herself onto all fours and rocking back and forth, and she uses her arms to drag the rest of her body across the floor. She's also mastered waving and clapping, but only when she's in the mood. She's graduated to sitting in a highchair for the 3 meals she eats each day. Our youngest has recently pushed us to be better house keepers. We've realized we need to vacuum quite often because Sophia's now able to pick up very small things and, of course, they go straight into her mouth. The other days she spit up part of one of those small plastic thingies that holds the price tag on new clothes. I think we were lucky she spit it up without any damage being done.