if you would just hold still...

i didn't think that i was going to post tonight, but madelyn changed my mind. after her nap she ran back to her room and came out with a pair of her shoes and several pairs of socks. i wasn't quite sure what she was doing, but she told mason that she was going to "get [him] dressed up to go to the park". about an hour earlier she had said that she didn't want to go back to the park (we had spent all morning there) so this was a surprise for many reasons.

i thought that it was so entertaining to watch her try and get one of her socks on mason. as a new baby, he still has super busy legs and she was really having a difficult time. but she never got frustrated. she also remained gentle with him while trying to get his legs to hold still. of course i had to get some video. its kind of long so don't feel like you have to watch the whole thing.


since she couldn't get shoes on to mason, she went back to her room and got her new snow boots we just got for this winter. if mason wouldn't wear shoes she was going to. she was stomping around the house in her boots. i had told her that she needed to be careful because they were big and she might trip. after the warning she kept fake tripping and telling me that she was falling down.

madelyn had another first today too (at least it is the first time i noticed it), she asked, "why?" it was only used three times in this round of questioning about why she couldn't fill up her bird feeder until daddy came home. during her two year checkup the doctor said that asking "why?" over and over was a three-year old skill and i have been trying to pay attention to if she asked "why?" because i had never noticed before. i didn't know that it was a vocabulary milestone. love.

update: mason's eye is just fine. it was totally cleared up by yesterday - what a huge difference a day makes!