A Nice Surprise

Yesterday Gwen wanted to bring her pajamas over to Grandma's house so she could sleep over. Grandma said it would be ok so Abe and I had the night to ourselves. He took me out to dinner and afterwards we went home. I was thinking we would just watch a movie or something but he told me that we were leaving again. I asked him where but he wouldn't tell me. Turned out that he bought tickets for a play. I love to go and watch plays. It was Pride and Prejudice. I was excited to see what they would do with it. They did a good job for how short they had to cut the book. There was no big scene changes the action led from one scene to the next quite quickly sometime in the middle of a sentence. Example night time Caroline Bingley says "I hope Jane recovers so that we don't get a visit from... (morning) Mrs. Bennet how good it is to see you." My all time favorite character was Mr. Collins. The actor who played him was good. He talked in a smarmy voice and it was just hilarious how he played it. But this is one of those things that you just had to be there. It was a wonderful night.

Strange

It's strange that sometimes I'll check my blog to see if there are any new entries forgetting that I'm the only one who puts posts on it. Once I remember it's my job I try and think of something interesting to say and usually fall short. So I put off writing on it once again. If anyone is wondering what I've been up to lately, I've been trying to potty train Gwen. It's been about a week and she still doesn't pay attention to it. Hopefully it will click anytime now. I've also been trying to grow grass on my lawn and have succeeded in getting a few patches here and there.

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.