Daddy's In the Kitchen Making Soup

Whew!  Somebody turned on the oven this week.  Our thermometer registered 107 on Monday, 108 on Tuesday, and 112 on Wednesday.  I think today was back down to 108.  At 9 pm tonight, we had cooled off to 97.  Let the searing heat begin. 

In other news, Everett has learned to tie his own shoes, including double knots to keep them tied!  He can also untie them (even the double knots), so he is TOTALLY 100% INDEPENDENT about getting any kind of shoes on and off.  HOORAY! 

 

Sky is blue, wha' cha gonna do?  Take a little time to tie your shoe, and tie it, tie it, keep on tying your shoe.

TA DA!!

And Catherine has figured out that I put bows in her hair.  Apparently, she does not like wearing bows, because she has also figured out how to pull them out.  Boo!  Especially since they go straight to her mouth.  Double Boo!

 "Were you the one who put this in my hair?"

 "Is it gone?"

"Bwa ha ha, I have foiled your diabolical plan to put bows in my hair!  Bwa ha ha ha!"

I am trying to keep a running list of her words.  So far we have, in no particular order, mama, dada, cat, duck, bird, see, (sometimes together as 'see bird'), that, more, milk, up, Buppy, Everett (sounds like "eh-weh"), uh-oh, doll, jojo (our family word for Cheerio), book, eye, nose, and I swear at dinner tonight she said 'chicken'.  Not bad for 13 1/2 months!  Perhaps it explains the not walking...she is too concentrated on verbal right now.  She loves to walk with her walking toy (above) and she did take two consecutive steps on May 9, and two non-consecutive steps on May 11, but otherwise no walking yet.  She does stand alone.  It won't be long now.