Naomi has discovered the joy that females everywhere consider their right - changing her mind. Maybe she waffled before, but now she has the vocabulary for it.
All week, she has been saying, "Actually."
I'll ask, "Do you want the pink or the the green bowl?"
Mo replies, " The pink one!"
Then, after the pink one already has cereal in it, she will say, "I want the green one, actually."
Or, I'll ask, "Which book do you want to read?" and after we are half way through the first page of the one she picked, she'll say, "I want the cat cupcake one, actually."
Kelly has been busy trying new things, herself...
...and Summer had to defrost a big chunk of ice to discover she was asked on her first date to Midwinter.
We didn't drive far enough to get really good, deep snow, but there was enough to have a little fun in.
I was glad to have Stan along for many reasons, one of them being that I never could have figured out these tracks by myself. He took one look and said, "kangaroo rat."
The kids made one snowman together...
...and Kelly made another, littler one on her own.
Naomi was thrilled with this new experience.
It was a great to mess around together.
I like the socks.
...and this is the one I bought at the thrift store the other day.
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Now, I am cutting out the next version, after I altered the pattern per her request as follows - raise the midriff 1 inch, widen the bottom of the skirt, make the sleeves smaller (these ones are too "Napoleon Dynamite") and take the bodice in.
...when I saw Rachel helping Summer put curlers in her hair!
