stormy day

today was a stormy day.  we've had several of those recently--sweet reminders that spring is on the way.  we've been tempted by a few trips to the park in between storms.  now isaac is big enough to hold nala's leash as he rides in the stroller and ada is big enough to slide by herself!  last spring she couldn't even sit up and now she can almost keep up with her brother.

 ada also likes to slide with daddio.

 isaac loves the sand.  ada puts it in her mouth.  

confined to our basement yet again, we decided to build a tent today.  when we were playing charades, isaac told ada he wanted her to be a hamster, and so we decided to get our tunnels out so that she could practice her hamster skills.  she rocked the tunnels.  i, however, was shocked that it was so hard to put together a playhouse without directions (where's jeremy when i need him?  he can put together that playhouse in the dark).  in order to prevent myself from blowing up, i abandoned the playhouse project and the dome tent became our focus.  isaac helped me while ada, bless her heart, entertained herself and her baby doll (which she cradles like a cell phone she's talking on).  success!  just enough for a hot dog picnic and several moments of tunneling hamster fun (the tent connects to the tunnels).

we also did some arts and crafts.  recently isaac has called any sort of crafty time "making valentines."  in his defense, we made lots of them last month.  today isaac decided he wanted to draw a heart, a rain cloud, an umbrella, and his hands.  we drew with glue and then put beans (the same ones that we used for gravel for isaac's trucks a few weeks ago) into the glue.  isaac did an awesome job.

ada tried to make a butterfly, but everything ends up in her mouth right now.  you know what they say about people who ate glue when they were little.  we had to redirect.

i'm ready for daddy to get home.  i miss him.

my girl and her shoes

it's common knowledge that many women have a thing for shoes.  i am not one of them.  my running shoes, my flip flops, and a pair of warm boots are my staples, and otherwise, i'm most comfortable barefoot.  i don't have a shoe fetish, and i don't really accessorize well either.  i'd rather not draw attention to myself, so i'm all about a pony tail and a pair of silver hoop earrings.

ada is so hilarious to me.  she LOVES to accessorize and she's only 14 months old.  everything is a bracelet (rubber bands, scotch tape dispensers, duct tape rolls, and today i caught her taking all of the toilet paper off of the roll so that she could put her hand through the cardboard tube).  everything else is a ring (marker tops, pipe cleaners, pen caps, and anything else she can squeeze onto her fingertips).  

she also loves shoes.  when her closet door is open, she heads straight for the tupperware box where we store them, and she brings me a pair to put on her.  she'll back up into my lap, have a seat, and wait for her foot to be adorned by whatever mary jane is to her liking that day.  sometimes she'll even demand that i try to fit her shoes on over her footy pajamas.  tonight she went to her closet after i put her jammies on, picked out a pair of shoes, and insisted that she wear them for the rest of the evening and then to bed too.  i tried to take them off of her, and she went nuts.

so, ada is sleeping in her shoes tonight.  i am sleeping barefoot.  

i love that little girl.