Castaway shoe

A few days ago my living room looked like a toddler beauty pageant puked all over my floor. My sister had sent a few boxes for Sweet One that contained princess dress up dresses. My daughter was so excited! Some are much too big and can be saved for a year or two down the road but there are a couple that she can enjoy now. One purple dress looks very close to Tangled's dress (because she doesn't call her Rapunzel, she calls her Tangled) and I didn't think I'd get it off of her that day.

Hiding as if it were a castaway was a lone sparkly shoe. Size 11. Sweet One wears around a 7.5 right now. I thought perhaps it got into the box by accident and was being missed by my niece. Not the case. What makes me for the last few days is that rather than requesting to wear the beautiful princess dresses, you can find my strange little girl excited to wear her pajamas all day along with this one shoe. She even asks if she can wear her shoe when we go out!

I'm not sure if this shoe will ever have its mate... unless, of course, a young man on a horse brings it to her.

It makes sense to her

It was just after supper tonight. Little Man hadn't been feeling well today and so I was happy that he was being entertained by Sweet One as she was playing with her new remote control train. She loves to set it going and then play with other things as it goes around and around (thank goodness for the automatic timer that shuts it down after awhile). Both of the kids like to watch from the sofa or the chair as if they are sitting in the bleachers at an arena.

Sweet one stopped the train. I asked her to let it keep going because it was making Little Man happy. But she was very sure she had to stop it because she needed to pee. "But you can let it go while you pee and Little Man can watch."

 "No! The noise might scare my pee away!"

WW Sweet One

"Stop it, Sweet One! It hurts!" she shouts as she plays by herself, wrestling a package of disposable diapers. I assume the diapers are winning if she's the one shouting stop it!

ABC's and everyday

ABC's ... ABC's! ABCDHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV...WX .... Y and Z!

That's how she says her ABC's. Over and over every day because she loves them. I am amazed at how quickly she has learned them as well as her ability to identify them when she sees them. Why is it that people try to make their little einstein children when kids will learn at insane rates when they are interested in the topic?

I haven't been blogging for fear of being annoying and redundant lately. Between someone who loves to wake up before 530 (fukkin' hell!), a sacrum that feels like it is getting pulverized every day and all the hormonal ups and downs that happen in the last two weeks before a baby gets cut out - well, that's my life lately. The baby dropped some time between Tuesday and Wednesday morning last week which sort of freaked me out since I never experienced that with Sweet One. Luckily, the insane pain went away by Thursday and I've adjusted to peeing every 20 minutes and feeling like the baby could fall out at any time.

Nesting has been insane over the past month. Every wall in my house has been cleaned, we got our carpets professionally cleaned, rooms have been deep cleaned and on top of that I've almost finished filling my deep freeze as well as countless hours at the sewing machine doing little projects here and there. Yesterday I told Big Love we needed to clean one more time before the baby comes and he looked at me very carefully and asked, "the walls again, too?" Good lord he's funny! I reassured him it's just the basics so that we don't have to worry about it for awhile and that I also want to take care of those little bits of things that are always lying around because I never got around to finding a place for them.

One great thing is our weather seems to have moved onto spring with the sun making some appearances. Two days ago it was 60 degrees out and we had a great time outside. Yesterday got up to 45 but with the sun it felt beautiful. Sweet One and I went for a walk (her pace is definitely better for me these days!) and then spent some time in the backyard. Believe it or not, we found carrots in the garden that I never dug up last fall and they are perfectly edible!