Audients/Audience

Nyla and Celia made a little platform in the bedroom, got up on it, and started to sing and dance:

Wyndee: Oooh -- you can be up on the stage, and I'll be the audience.

Nyla: No. You're only one person, so you're an audient.

Mushrooms

Nyla and I were reading the encyclopedia tonight, the article about mushrooms. We read about how some mushrooms are poisonous.

Me: So it's not a good idea to eat mushrooms that you find growing in strange places. But it is a good idea to eat the mushrooms that Mommy and Daddy buy at the grocery store.

Nyla: Do you wash all the poisonousness off of them?

Me: They don't sell the poison kind at Kroger.

Celia's first sentences

Celia still doesn't say a great number of words, but she has been saying her first two sentences. They are: "What's that?", which she says about a hundred times a day, and "I did it!", when she is proud of an accomplishment.

Moo!

Celia loves animals. Example: the other day, she was rummaging around in the pantry the other day and found a can of evaporated milk with a picture of a cow on it. We found her sitting there holding the can and mooing at it.

Nyla-isms

Story 1: The other day, Wyndee was in the laundry room and Nyla wanted to go down into the basement. Nyla goes up to Celia and says, "Celia, let's go to the laundry room." They walk down the hall to the laundry room and ask Wyndee if she'll take them down to the basement. She says yes, and Nyla excitedly turns to Celia and says, "We convinced her!"

Story 2: The other day I was playing a video game with Nyla. We entered a cave and spooky music started to play. Nyla: "This music sounds very mysterious."

I'm a sucker for 4-year old girls using "convinced" and "mysterious" in sentences.

April

This may be the only picture we have of the two girls where they are both looking at the camera and smiling. One out of 100 isn't bad, right?

Nyla has been working on her trapping skills.

McConnell Springs

Grandma Terri and Grandma Chief are in town, and we took a trip to McConnell Springs park. Here's Nyla at the spot where Lexington was founded by William McConnell:

Wyndee and Nyla exploring a little, watery cave:

Terri next to a 300-year old oak tree:
Celia tried to dive into the spring; luckily, Pat's reflexes were up to the task: