Lina: You have big shoes daddy. You tie them. When I'm a big person like you, I'll tie shoes too.
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Me: You know how we're going to learn to tie presents this summer, you'll be able to tie shoes after that, you can help tie daddy's shoes.

Lina: Excuse me, mommy. I'm talking to daddy right now. Daddy, can you help me learn to tie shoes?

There's a bit of a theme to the cloud pictures I've been seeing lately. I've tried to force clouds into pictures that don't match the theme, but they just aren't as clear ( Read more... )

The bestest shoes in the world. to buy when I have $60 and can find them.

Oh how I wish I'd known how much they rock when I was in a store with them @$40.

Not that I've been anywhere close to perfect on the grain free diet, but I had a huge amount of wheat tonight and I've got runny eyes, runny and stuffy nose, and am sneezing up a storm.

All of which started after having the wheat, not while moving dusty stuff, not while sweeping, not while scrounging around under the crumbly couch to hunt for a

She comes in to me from playing with A. "I have an ouchy toe." I kiss it and make it all better and she heads back to playing. I overhear her report to A that "I told mommy about my ouchy toe and she kissed it ( Read more... )

"ah-ah-eeeechoo!" has faded away into a more conventional fake sneeze.

So I thought I'd post briefly as I've got a toddler snuggled up in what is still a "blanklie"

today she modified the telephone song to fit with playing with ducks in the tub ( Read more... )

She had to stop everything to tell A he farted. He hadn't and told her so.
L:"Mommy farted!"
A:You should go tell her that
L:Come on, let's go see

and she takes him by the hand to come over and point at my butt.

A: It's a frost beholder ( Read more... )

While holding my breast: "It's beau-ti-ful. I love it. I really like it. I really do."

Upon being told that no, she can't play yet another game before going to bed, she walked straight into the bathroom and came back with her step stool. She was sooo proud of getting the game out. So I'm letting her play it by herself while I type up this post.