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| I don't know why I can never add captions to the videos, so I'll do it here. The top video is the girls acting out the scene in Frozen where Anna is trying to get Elsa to open her door (Hattie is Anna). Turn the volume way up, it's pretty cute. For the next two videos, one afternoon the girls were just playing and suddenly they started taking turns running to the fireplace, introducing themselves to an imaginary audience, and saying they like to toot ("I'm Hattie and I like to toot"). They thought it was sooooo funny. The next one, we had one crib in the living room for a day while we transitioned their bedroom. They loved to play in it, and it always resulted in cage fights. It looks bad, but I promise they were having fun. They really just love to wrestle each other. They did this for about twenty minutes. For the girls' birthday, we decided to convert their cribs into toddler beds. We knew both their cribs were convertible, we just hadn't looked too closely into how to convert them. When I got out the instructions to figure it out, it turned out that one of the cribs needed extra parts bought to be able to convert. We decided to just bite the bullet and get them twin beds instead. And I thought it'd be fun to build some beds. I found the simplest beds I could and watched the youtube video about 20 times, and then made two twin beds, from scratch. They're definitely not fancy, but they're also definitely beds. Not bad for a first project. |
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| The girls' room wasn't meant to hold two twin beds. This was the best configuration we could come up with, and they barely fit. We can just open the closet doors on the side of the room, but the girls love it. They go right to sleep every night and sleep all night. Finally, after three years, they're sleeping until 7. It's amazing! |
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| I've had a pallet sitting in our shed since we got a shipment of garden bricks last fall, waiting to figure out what I wanted to do with it. After the beds turned out ok, I thought I'd try my hand at another project. I built this bench out of the pallet and a few boards left over from the beds. The pallet was probably a little older (rottener) than I should have used for a bench, but otherwise it looks pretty great. It needs a good sanding and paint job, but that's a project for another day. |
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| Tille loves 'driving' Matt's scooter. And wearing her tutu. |
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| Last week some of Matt's sisters put together a zoo trip so we tagged along. It was a lot of fun. The weather was perfect and with Covid, it wasn't even crowded. |
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| Tell us how you really feel Hattie. Actually, she was showing Matt a splinter in her finger and didn't understand why we thought it was so funny and wanted to get pictures. |
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| The girls got hold of my phone and were taking pictures. I remembered to look a little while later and found this gem of Tille that Hattie took. |
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| Both girls have been learning to take better pictures. We've been working on centering the picture, not getting fingers in front of the camera, etc. Tille took this picture of Hattie and me. |
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| Tille took this of Matt |
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| Hattie took this of Tille and me. |
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| This is at Lilly Lake in the Uintahs |
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| Anna and Elsa stopped by to do some yardwork one day. |
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| And then rode off on the scooter. |
