Spring...
The signs of spring are showing up all over the place in our yard. The almond trees bloomed last month and are now already starting to form little "nutlets" among the bright green leaves. Our fruit trees are blooming now and the bees are busily flying around the flowers. The temperatures are still quite cold at night, but we've had some beautiful breezy sunny days. Andrew and the girls did some mowing this weekend, Cora & Olivia even helped push the reel mower around. Of course we have a lot of lawn so Andrew had to do some of the work by himself. It has been so nice to get out and play in the yard in the sunshine after all the rain we had. We had some very cold weather recently and although it didn't snow at our house, it did snow close by.
Cora LOVES to play dress up. She will dress up almost every single day; it's one of her favorite things to do at preschool too. Olivia has discovered that she likes to play dress up as well, especially now that some of the dress up clothes actually fit her. Ballerinas and princesses are very popular themes and often their dress up play is accompanied by dancing. On this day, Cora was Princess Anneliese and Olivia was Erica, of the Barbie version of "The Princess and the Pauper." Of course, Olivia still likes to pretend to be a cat most often and since Cora likes Harry Potter, Olivia is often Crookshanks (Harry's friend Hermione's cat). Olivia is starting to pick up on the whole Harry Potter thing, she knows enough about the basic characters to play along.
Cora & Olivia can play together quite well these days, something that I am thoroughly enjoying. It's so nice to see them interacting with each other, pretending, giggling, and just having fun. They really like playing together much of the time and will even work out disagreements on their own sometimes, I think so that they can keep on playing.
I found a couple of undated quotes, but they are from the last couple months.
Cora, "Am I still in preschool?" I told her yes. "It's taking a long time for me to be in high school!"
It was evening and most of the lights were out when Cora wanted something from her room. She would have to pass through dark rooms to get there and said,"I'm scared! Too scary!" Olivia replied, "No problem, me coming with you."
Olivia is often heard saying "No worry," or "No worries," these days. I hear her saying it a lot to Cora while they are playing to reassure her or one of the characters they are playing with. I can't say which phrase she is actually saying, it sounds a little like both, but it is very sweet.
