Wednesday, 27 September, 2006

The girls are beginning to get excited about Halloween coming but have rather horrible memories of one Saturday morning last October when we all went into town and ended up at the Kaiser clinic for flu shots.   They’ve already started to protest and to try and get out of the experience.  We won’t have the element of surprise to rely on this year, so instead of starting to cry at the clinic when they realize what is happening, they’ll be whining for the entire month of October and November.

Kristen loves her shoes.  I think partly because she knows that sometimes putting on shoes means she gets to go somewhere and partly because the non-slip soles on the bottom of her jammies aren’t so non-slip after all.  She has learned after a few falls to walk with more care once she gets on to the hardwood floor.  I guess a few knocks on the head will do that to you.  So with the cooler weather, she needs to wear socks during the day, but that, too, causes her to fall, so she wears her little pink and white tennies all day long.  She can say “shoes”, “there it is”, “see ya”, and “come on”–some of the new phrases she has picked up lately.  If you don’t get up quickly enough when she says “come on”, she will try to pull you up out of the chair.  She still says “na” for milk.  I think it is a cross between milk and night night.  She is smart enough to ask for it though.