in our shoes

madelyn used to have a lot of interest in my shoes when playing in our closet, but she has never tried to put them on her own feet before - until today... i was cleaning up in the kitchen after breakfast and i heard this "clop, clop" noise approaching. obviously she had something on her feet, but i wasn't really sure what it was going to be. once she came around to the kitchen she had a smile on her face from ear to ear and a pair of my shoes on her feet. the funniest, and most amazing part, was that she had the heals of the shoes at her toes - she was walking in them backwards! i don't know quite how she made that work all the way from the front door to the kitchen, but she did none the less. it must have been a theme for the day because later she put on matt's slippers and wore them around our bedroom for a while.

there has also been an explosion of "s" words today (and yesterday): sleep, sleeping, step, slow (see video), stamp (she gets a hand stamp after tumbling class). additionally she has started to say her name, but she uses a "b" instead of a "d" when she says "madelyn". however, when she says "maddie" she says it with "d"s.

she ran to the diaper box that we emptied the day before to hide from me this morning and somehow managed to put a really good scratch from her jaw to near her collarbone. i know that she scratched her neck on the corner of one of the flaps because it was crushed, but i don't know what she was doing. she had only left me 30 seconds before she started crying. i will try to get a picture tomorrow because it is pretty impressive.

madelyn enjoys her bath time - especially since we have added "bubbles" to the routine. one way that we keep the bubbles fresh at the end of bath time is to pour water for her. she really enjoys this 'game' too. matt has taken it one step further by varying the speed that he pours the water. madelyn now refers to this game as "slow". she was laughing much harder last night because it was new, but i didn't think to get the camera. here is some footage from tonight's bath.

sorry that there aren't any pictures today, i left the camera downstairs this morning and didn't get it until tonight. i will try to do better tomorrow. love.