Twinsies

Today I am thankful for good friends and baby spoiling.  I hung out with SKD today, and this morning got to spend time with her while she was babysitting her great niece and nephew who are 2 year old twins and absolutely adorable.  The girl was cracking me up because she kept saying "no no, boy" and "uh oh, boy" to her brother whenever he did something she thought he shouldn't.  This was always accompanied by a disapproving look and a wagging finger. Both kiddos are really sweet and I had a blast with them.  And then I had a fabulous afternoon with their auntie.  Tonight's shoes are inspired by twins:

I love both of these, but can we please get away from the strict gender binaries of pink and blue?

Still pink, but look! Green!

I know they aren't shoes, and we're back to pink and blue, but these are adorable.

Yay, throwing a little purple in the mix, which is the girl twins favorite color.  She says puhple.

I am grateful for a good day.

A Boots Kind of Day

I would have posted yesterday, but after hanging out with the BFF and nephew before they had to leave (and...ahem...skipping church), "working" the matinee for Mom (and by work I mean crochet as not one person came up to the counter during the movie), I spent EIGHT HOURS making a photo book from the Holidays pictures.  This should not have taken that long, but Shutterfly and I were NOT agreeing.  I finally had to concede defeat and order a sub-par (by my OCD perfectionist standards) book.  So.  Very.  Rude.

Oh well, today is a new day.  This morning Tink and I hung out until she went to preschool.  Then Laughter and I hung out with our friend who has twin boys who are 16 1/2 months old.  I know their ages, because they were born the day after the hubby and I got married, and we are still counting our marriage in months. They are so cute and so serious.  They just watch everything.  And they were boys on a mission because there was something in the dining room they were both bound and determined to get to if their mean mommy hadn't kept stopping them before they could discover whatever it was.  The whole fam had dinner together (except for the 2 sons-in-laws--apparently it was a no in-law event), and then Double A, The Bean, and Pippi and I watched Monsters University with the brother, Mom and Dad.  Now Pippi is having a sleepover.  She currently snoozing away quite contentedly in the cubby, but has informed me that she plans to join me in my bed sometime during the night.  So noted.

Apparently it was a boots kind of day:

Laughter was wearing these and got very upset when they got mud on them.  Ohhhh, the heartache of muddy winter in MT.

The Bean  didn't actually wear these today, but they are her new snowboots and I kept forgetting to get a picture.  Double A has a green pair, but I haven't see them yet.

The twins' boots.  How stinking adorable are these?  Thankfully their mommy reads the blog, so only thinks I'm slightly weird when I photograph her children's footwear.  One of the boys caught me while I was taking the picture and was less than impressed.

Tink has been wearing them this year.  You might remember them from last year when Pippi was wearing them.  Oh, also, you should click on that link because it also talks about the twins!

I wore my boots yesterday.  Clearly I did not get the memo.  I also wore black shoes today when clearly the theme was brown.  Sigh.

Arts Camp, Day 4

Holy buckets but I'm tired!  It's been a good week, but for some reason, this time the kids waited until Thursday to let loose with their Wednesday craziness.  We had meltdowns and injuries and cliques and tattling, and all of the rest of the usual stuff, just multiplied by what felt like about a million.  My volunteers are tired, I am tired, but the kids act like we fed them a huge bowl of sugar for both snack and lunch today.  Oh well.  One more day, and tomorrow is their program, which is always fun.

 

I only took pictures of tennies today for some reason:

 

 

I love the colors of these, including the socks.  This picture says spring to me.

 

5th Grade boy shoes.  See?  I can like boys' shoes, too.  The color didn't turn out well, because these have really cool lime green laces and details. 

 

Twin shoes!  Not shoes that are twins, but shoes on the feet of twins.  The yellow socks are actually tie-dyed.  Which is awesome.