Hazel spends a lot of time making stacks with blocks or elephants every day, and now she can get the blocks stacked all on her own (without anyone telling her which one goes next). It takes some trial and error, but she is patient with it.
Vivian spends a lot of time sitting and smiling each day. This happened to be the day after Ash Wedesday (you can see the smudge left on Vivi's forehead). Hazel was very concerned at church that everyone was messy, and wanted to get clean. So, while everyone is being somber and quiet, and the pastor is going one at a time through folks in the line (So-and-so remember: you are dust, and to dust you shall return...) Hazel is busy saying "Vivi messy?! " over and over. I was foolish enough to point out that we were all messy, which did not, in the end, appease her. After that it was "Vivi messy?! Mama messy. All cleaned up? Vivi messy. Mama messy. Pastor messy. Wipe up? All clean?" and so on.
This is Hazel's expression just before knocking the tower down to start over again.
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