New Pet

This is Gwen's new pet. Now looking at it you would think that it is a snake. Well you would be wrong. This is Gwen's new doggy. She even has a lease around it's neck. She loves this toy and will hook the other end of the lease to the drawer handles so that he won't run away. As far as I know he doesn't have a name. But this is the cleanest pet I've ever owned.

Spelling

I love the way Gwen spells things. She thinks there is only three letters in the whole alphabet. The other day she painted her name with chapstick on her chair. She said,

"This says my name, A T R A."

That's also how she sings the alphabet "A T R A T R A R T A T. . ." etc.

Feet Friends

It all started at my mom's house. Gwen was sitting in mom's chair and I was lying down on the couch with my feet up on the arm rest. After Gwen started crying I wiggled my toes at her and said, "Hello Gwen. Don't cry, it's ok." She was enchanted from the first word. She stopped crying and held a conversation with my feet. Since then she has played with my feet several times. She'll come over and hug them and kiss them. She'll call them her friends. Once when I was watching a show she banged my feet together and started shouting, "Talk friends. Talk!" It makes my feet feel all special to be loved so much. Gwen is so cute and funny to watch sometimes. I'm glad that my feet can be so entertaining to her.

She has quite the imagination. When we visit grandma's house she will call it her castle. Yesterday I found out what our house is called. The Monster House. She got out of the car and patted the side of the house and said, "I pet my monster house. I love my monster house."

Hair Dye part 2

And this is after I dyed it. I decided to go a little red. Katy says it looks a little like my high school days hair color but a little redder. So there it is.

Hair Dye

Been thinking a long time about dyeing my hair. I finally caved in when we saw a sale for hair dye at one of the grocery stores. This is before I changed my color.

Independency.

One of the things that makes me laugh the most is when Gwen wants to be independent.

"Gwen you need to put on your coat or you'll freeze."

"I want freeze."

"If you eat too much candy it will make you sick."

"I want sick."

My favorite though is:

"Gwen you can't ride in the trunk of the car. It's illegal."

"I want illegal."

Kids, you just gotta love them.

Time Out

Gwen has been really funny lately. Yesterday was her first day as a sunbeam in our ward and she was really good. When the teacher asked her questions she would answer them. She would dance and sing to all the primary songs. I hope she continues to be such a good girl. She also had her first time of saying a prayer (repeating it really). She always refused to do it and I finally got her to do it twice now. One cute thing she did was her daddy was expressing some frustration with the internet connection and Gwen told him to stop fighting and that he was on time out. I also got put on time out today because I told Gwen to stop yelling. Now which one of us was the parent again?

I have to watch what I tell Gwen because she chooses the most embarrassing time to repeat it. She has a book about the human body that I read to her one time. We talked about what happens to the food we eat. Of course that's what she says when we had snack time on Sunday. I was a little embarrassed to say the least. That's the last time I will try and be scientific with Gwen. At least I know she understood.