We have been doing a lot outside lately, trying to get in as much playtime as possible without wearing 5 layers against the cold. Every year the cold strikes during a different month. Last year it was around Halloween, sometimes it's December. Sometimes there's a foot of snow by Thanksgiving. One can never tell. I am also cold-blooded so I get so cold I just can't move and would rather die than go outside in the wind chill.
Fall is slowly approaching. There are a few leaves on our driveway and front lawn already. I went through the girls summer clothes and put away all the outfits I was dead tired of or too stained to look at for one more washing. I also put away the baby shoes since there is no baby in the near future. Violets feet are growing slower than Avas did though, so I can still cram her foot into cute size 3 shoes.
Ava has figured out a good way to get a "tubba." She goes outside and starts dumping sand on her and Violet's head. Violet then does it to Ava. It's a game to them. Of course, I am stuck and have to give Ava a bath. Here's what she's been doing lately.
Laying down on her back. For a girl that hates to get her head wet, this is a huge step. She has to have a towel to wipe any water away that gets in her eyes.
At the library with a little statue. We walked there and each girl got to check out two books on their library card. Everyone was surprisingly well behaved and Ava stayed very close to me the whole time (even though there were kids running around everywhere). Violet emptied out two small shelves of cardboard books and then got excited when she saw big rows of books. She tried to run away from us to start throwing books off the shelves, but we laughed and picked her up.
I've started going back to the gym after taking the whole summer off (who wants to be cooped up in a gym in the summer?) After the gym the girls were hungry and we don't have any food here, so I got them ice cream. The idea was to get them the literally quarter-sized cones from McDonalds, but as I went through the drive-thru they handed me normal size. I was freaking out inside when they told me they just put less in the cones. Yeah right! Apparently you can only get them when you eat in. I almost considered giving them back or throwing them away. But oh well, Ava was in Violet's new car seat so there would be less mess in the new car seat. I took this picture of Violet COVERED in ice cream. She was tired, stickey, hungry, and mad about her runny nose. You can see Ava in the background eating her cone. We had to stop at the park on the way home to eat outside, which of course meant playing more. They also ate 8 chicken nuggets between the two of them. Crazy!! I didn't have any .. the rest of the 10 piece got dropped and went in the trash. I wasn't going to eat nuggets after going to the gym. That would have been too sinful.
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