oh the joys

• my pair of tom's came today! i am so excited YEA YEA YEA! i have not been a 'shoe person' ... until i saw these on our friend's blog & then waited for them to visit us so i could see them first hand. loved them. ordered them that week & here they are & i love them. comfortable. wearable with everything, i assure you. they already have spilled milk on them but i wore them out anyway. COMFORTABLE. maybe i haven't been a shoe person before b/c i have wide feet & am mostly uncomfortable in women's shoes (except sandals!). but i'm finding my way around the very tight women fitting shoes & into the comfy ones. i believe on 3rd rock i would i be like liz lemon, wearing 'man shoes'. who cares?! COMFORTABLE.
  

• & these would be the shoes adeline *agonized* over for 30 minutes in target tonight. these special, fast, sparkly, pink shoes beat out a DORA pair (my guess is b/c the dora ones were brown. or maybe she was pondering the fact of her dora boots at home are also brown...to0 much brown?). my goodness! her feet are a size *NINE*!
  

• & these shoes, folks, are her "dressy" shoes. no kidding. she picked these, again--agony-- over the total sparkle shoes (even had 3 sparkle shoe colors to pick from...but none were pink). so was very thoughtful & excited during this shoe buying process. lots of 'huummmm' & 'mmmmhhhmm'??? & no not dat, yes dat, NO YES. etc.

• another joy of parenting? this is addy's plate. our 3 year old (well, as of tomorrow at 11:19 a.m.). we bribed her to eat the carrots (just by saying we'll eat a carrot when she eats one) but she's refusing to eat any meat except chicken nuggets especially from costco, the ones that are in the shape of mickey mouse's head (???). she used to eat nearly as much as wes, just about a year ago, actually. & she would eat nearly anything. ah well, so it goes. what do 'they' say, just keep offering it & eventually she'll eat the things that she's okay with & will show us for sure the things she really doesn't have a taste for (gah, do we have a vegetarian on our hands? will her daddy be okay with this?! lol)
  

• & this, this is amelia's plate. her 1st helping. she ate about two plates with this much food *not even kidding*... she doesn't stop eating most of the day.
  

• going to preschool went wonderful today, once i finally found a parking spot. this particular elementary school has about 12 parking spaces for everyone (including staff). i was driving like a mad woman trying to find a spot. i think (yes, i know) i yelled a big fat what the f*&% are you doing dude?? to another parent trying to navigate the tiny alley behind the school. he was going the wrong way, btw, down the 1 way street. it was my 2nd time around looking for a spot. ((& carol, if you're reading, i didn't even attempt to replace the f-er with frack or fiddlesticks or stupid idiot. it just came out. *sigh*))
  

• i must stop letting adeline talk me into putting her hair barrettes in my hair. she will pull one out of her hair (yes, ouch) & then push it into my head (yes, ouch again) so i say no no, that's for addy, not mama & then suddenly my brain stops working & i'm putting her barrette in my hair & then she laughs & oogles over how beautiful it looks in my hair, etc. then millie chases me around trying to grab it out. good times! but then i totally forget it's in my hair & *then i leave the house* wearing a pink plastic butterfly barrette. lovely! hello wes! tell me these things before i walk out of the house!

• amelia is working a tooth out *finally* this has been nearly 2 months in the making. the swollen gums, the drool, the diarrhea, etc. we think this b/c she had a lego dude in her mouth for an entire 70 minutes tonight. that was after she chewed on the infant dropper all day.
  

• amelia & i had our first date out together this morning. of course, we went to starbucks & she was treated to a raspberry muffin & floor scum (she chose to pick up & attempt to eat floor scum mostly). it was fun & she *loved* it. her eyes just light up even more than usual when she has my undivided attention, which makes my eyes light up i'm sure. what a kid.

• & how would i do this blog without wes? who knew that 'undo' is <>??? not me. but he does. what a guy, what a hubby. i tell ya.