Observations and Gardens

Brian relayed this story to me.

Addie: Do you like our new door decorations. Aunt Sarah has some at her house. Mom likes them so she got some for our house too.

Well our new door decorations are actually the door knob safety covers. I am getting tired of Mabel accidentally getting out when Addie opens the door. And sometimes Addie likes to leave before I am quite ready. And Edith reaches on her tiptoes to try to turn the knob. It was time.

Another story Addie told Brian.

Addie: Edith kept saying "I want cake, I want cake over and over so Mom made her one."

Well actually today my sister and I were celebrating Mother's Day with our Mom. The cake was for my Mom not Edith, although we all enjoyed it together. If I made a cake every time Edith said "I want cake" we would be up to our eyeballs in it.

This picture is part of the garden Addie and I have planted. We have quite a few plants going and will later transplant them into Gramma's garden as we are not allowed to plant anything outside. We have dog and cat grass heads, snowdrop flowers, 3 beans, a bunch of pumpkins, a bunch of peppers, and a potato. Addie has quite the green thumb. We enjoy cutting our grass animals' hair together. I guess it is time for another trim.

Amazing

I am always impressed by Addie's amazing powers of observation. I am going to share two recent examples. First, we were heading into a restaurant and Addie pointed out a hanging tree. She was very excited about the hanging tree. None of the rest of us would have even noticed because we were so busy with shuttling everybody inside.

Today we went to the library and I got out Country Mouse Town Mouse by Jan Brett. When I got it out to read Addie says "This is the armadillo book." This only makes sense if you know that we have previously gotten out another book by Jan Brett that stars an armadillo. Addie immediately recognized the style of the drawings. Wow. Even more amazing is that we got out the armadillo book back when we were living in Issaquah over 9 months ago. Double Wow!

On the Edith front she is quite excited about the new shoes that she picked out. She grabbed a pair of Trekker's old work boots (size 8) and absolutely loves them. I had to hide them because it is probably not so good to wear shoes 2 sizes too big. She also now has Trekker's old leather jacket. She looks pretty cool in it. Here she is sweeping up the driveway with the shop broom.