Role Reversal

Hollis was pushing Katie around today, literally. She didn't want to ride her trike, so she thought it might be fun to make Katie ride it. Then she put Katie in her stroller and pushed her around in that for awhile too, laughing hysterically the whole time. Hollis is about 4 inches shy of Katie's height, and when she gets there, we're going to be in trouble! At the rate she's going, she'll be pushing around Mom and Dad (at 5'10"and 6'3") in just a couple years!

The Doggy

It's been a little longer than I'd like between my posts, but my hard drive died and I was waiting for the replacement part. I fixed it and we're back in business! A couple of weeks ago Katie brought over her new boxer puppy, Romy, to play with Hollis. Hollis loves her school's therapy dog, Isaac, an old yellow lab, and we have 2 cats that she loves to chase around. I should also add that around this time last year, I tried to get a puppy for Hollis and she was a bit overwhelmed by the whole thing. I thought she might have changed her opinion since the surgery, since she has seemed a bit more tolerant of stimuli, but apparently, she reserves the same opinion regarding puppies as she always had: a little too much when close, but OK when far away. See picture below for reference:

Hollis has been "helping" with this post. She is sitting on my lap while I'm typing, adding some of her own thoughts including "abnm" and "3nmee;". She also stole my coffee, and chugged some down. A picture of the evidence follows. A glimpse of the rare Mom bird, with wet hair even - stunning! ; )