Puppzies

Olive set up a puppy store in her room. There are different isles of puppy supplies, boxes to use to carry your finds home with you, comment cards, and a sign on the door that says "Puppzies". Ivey wouldn't play with her (I'm sure it was too organized of a game of pretend for her liking) so I went on a shopping trip at Puppzies and tried to merge the two sisters into a single game. Ivey had two packed suitcases. As I shopped and asked the amazingly helpful sales staff my questions, Ivey explained that she was moving to Texas to see her parents, and that she had packed her two pet baby miniature tigers for the trip. Seeing a way to merge her into the Puppzies experience, I informed her that the store had a wide variety of pet foods and may have some things that tigers would need. "My tigers go out each day and hunt for wild rabbits that eat my tomato garden." Well, darn. Each time I would try to reel Ivey into the pet-shop pretend world we were playing in, she had a very detailed account of how that could not work. See, she was moving to Texas. She has her exotic animal license (obviously), but is working on her wildlife rehabilitation license, as well. After arriving in Texas (aka living room), she realized that her parents had packed up and left for Africa, leaving nothing but a massive pile of clothing all over their couch. It seems they must have only taken one set of clothing with them, given the massive pile of laundry. (sigh)

There is no way to get Olive into the madness of Ivey's untamed imagination, and there is no way to get Ivey wrangled into Olive's organized and structured mind. These two sisters are a hoot to watch.