The most exciting thing in our house right now is that OLIVE SLEEPS!!!
Unlike her siblings, she actually understand that sleep, at night, should occur in increments of more than 45 minutes!
Elmo and Papa took Maisy and Johnny to Lakefair. Last year Maisy was too short to ride the rides. During the last year many nights were spent discussing how she was so sad she couldn't ride anything at the fair by the water. This year, Elmo taught Maisy how to stretch as tall as she can so she will be tall enough. (she still wasn't tall enough for all the rides and some of the fair workers wouldn't let her on! Poor girl, she still hasn't reached 3 feet!)
Johnny loves Olive and tries to hold her every chance he gets!
Johnny is finally (sometimes) getting Maisy to play games with him. This weekend he and Maisy here "spies". The gloves are all part of Maisy's "spy wear". In this picture she is playing dead. He's taught her all about Ben 10 and she can tell you all about each character and say their catchphrases.
Olive LOVES smiling. She gets to happy anytime she sees us. Her smile brightens up the whole room and Johnny spends alot of time waiting for her to wake up so she can smile!
Maisy started swimming lessons. The 2nd picture is a result of her being tired of me taking pictures! Even though she thinks she can already swim, she LOVES her swimming lessons!
Maisy is really enjoying taking care of her sister. She helped me give her a bath. Olive thought this was pretty funny. Maisy did pretty good too and there was only one incident of her dropping a wet wash cloth on Olive's face. (You can't see me, but I am the main person bathing Olive!)
Johnny hasn't been too pleased with us this summer! We limit his computer and tv time, we make him do school work, we make him clean his room. All of this takes very little time out of his day, but he feels like we are torturing him. Somewhere he has heard this phrase, but he's using it incorrectly. (and I'm not going to correct him!) He walks around, glaring at us, saying "I'm in heaven".
Maisy has adopted a phrase from her Great Grandpa Rutledge. She can often be heard saying "For Crying Out Loud". The other day she even performed a freestyle song she'd written entitled "For Crying Out Loud".
With the exception of a few disastrous trips (our apologies to the swimmers at the pool last night) having 3 kids hasn't been too difficult of a transition. Olive is the sweetest baby ever and rarely makes a peep. She is the perfect baby for our family and thankfully her siblings love her. We were a little worried about how Maisy would respond to her sister, thankfully we have been pleasantly surprised.
