Genevieve had her first fall Musikgarten class with Miss Amanda. Three girls and three boys; just the right size. Then, lunch with Grammy - playing restaurant, fishing, watching the ducks, and throwing rocks at the Twin Lakes pond are some of her favorite activities. Getting gas for the car these days is a huge ordeal with Genevieve. "You didn't stop at pump 3!" I reluctantly turn the car around and go to pump 3. Sometimes she doesn't notice until after I am out of the car and is yelling at me from inside the car -- my selective hearing kicks in.



After an hour nap in the car and a quick snack, it was onto an art session at Happen, Inc. The theme was shapes and Mr. Junk Man (shown to the right) just happened to have a bunch of Polaroid cameras. We were given 1/2 hour to find the letters/symbols in Gigi's name. Gigi is very much into letters and armed with a Polaroid around her neck, went trotting down Hamilton Avenue looking for things that looked like her letters. She found a neon lit g, a cursive i, another "G" that was a door handle of a car, and a fence post that was a lower case i with a metal ball on the top for the dotted part of the i. She also took a picture of a 3 because, well, that is her number and her age.

Mommy came home and Genevieve made up a new game. "I will throw a ball, and you yell HER-HAY!" Many her-hays followed.

At bedtime, she wanted to know what river Granny Ele has. I told her Granny Ele has three rivers in her town, and she wanted to know what names they had. She then wanted to count our rivers: The Ohio, the Miami Ladybug, the Okeenie, and the Prugo (I know of only the Ohio and the Little Miami).