Handful

Gwen has started to become a bit of a handful.

She likes to carry things around the house now.  Shoes often get separated from their mates.  Bath toys wind up in our bed room.

The worst is that we think she has hidden (or maybe thrown away) our DVR remotes (both of them).  I don't think she likes the TV.  Especially when we are watching it instead of her.

Gwen has also started climbing.  We just got bunk beds for Frances' room (in the unlikely event that Gwen leaves our bed).  Gwen can clime the ladder to the top.  She can't get up to the bed from their though, which is good because one of the things she does when she gets up their is throw her legs over the side like she'd getting off a regular bed.  It's better she get stuck than fall from the top bunk.

Basically, we now keep Frances' door closed.

She also can climb onto the dining room table.  And tonight she climbed to the top of the cat tree.  We got the cat tree so the cats could climb up to their food but Gwen wouldn't.  That plan is shot.

As an aside, Gwen seems to really like owls.  We went to the natural history museum and there was a case with about 20 different stuffed owls.  She would point and say "Owa".  She also said "Oo" which could have been a try for "who" (like an owl says) or just regular old ooing.  We had to go back to that case a second time to see them again.

mwz

France's Race Report

The following was written by Frances about our recent trip. I cleaned up the very few spelling and punctuation mistakes. - mwz

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My Trip

We went to a stat park in Wisconsin. We went camping there. We went there because I had a triathlon there. We got to stay up late.

At the triathlon, when I was swimming I was faster than when I ran in the lake and every time I swam I needed to breath. Next I had to bike 3 miles. It was 2 laps around. For the run I was so tired.

I had fun on my trip.