galoshes

madelyn got a pair of galoshes (or wellies, or rain boots, or whatever you would like to call them). i have always thought that they were adorable, but didn't know if i wanted to spend the money to encourage puddle hopping. but then her school asked that parents keep sending boots so that the kids could still play outside if it was a little wet out. i could have just sent her snow boots but felt they were too bulky for warmer weather and we went looking for some galoshes.

ever the practical pair, matt and i opted for a gender neutral pair with hand-me-down potential. lucky for us madelyn loves them and they match her clothes better than anything pink ever would have (read: we do not need any girly galoshes, grandmas).

for our trip to the zoo last friday madelyn selected a blue dress over jeans and her blue galoshes - "for jumping in puddles". sadly, even though we had snow/rain that week (yes, i said snow), the ground was relatively dry. much to madelyn's disappointment. she also discovered that galoshes are really a 'walking' shoe and by the time we were heading out she wanted to be carried because her feet hurt. her feet must not have hurt her too much because she selected her galoshes as the footwear of choice for the rest of the weekend.

while the galoshes were not appropriate weather-wise, she could not have looked cuter wearing them. especially when she wore them with some long shorts on sunday and had her hair in pig tails. too bad she wouldn't let me take her picture.

mason stayed awake our entire time at the zoo. i think that he is going to lose his morning nap in hopes that he will sleep longer at night. he doesn't seem to really need it since most days it is only 20-45 minutes while his afternoon nap is 2 hours or more. the doctor suggested this might be an option since he isn't that great of a napper most of the time anyway. and he has been getting up at 5am pretty consistently since the time change and yesterday he got up at 4am - for the day! and he is perfectly happy, not tired in the slightest. now matt and i on the other hand...

we are also trying to feed him as much as he wants instead of cutting him off after a ridiculous amount of food like we had been doing; just incase he isn't getting enough food during the day to sleep all night. the good news is that he will pretty much eat anything we give him and loves finger foods. the bad news is that he will eat for an hour straight! and eats more than matt or i ever could. he has already had foods that we might have waited a little while longer for him to try but sometimes i run out of ideas and just give him whatever madelyn is eating. we have even started giving him whole milk to try and give him more calories before bed (his doctor said that was fine whenever we wanted to start him on it when we discussed at his 9-month appointment). he seems happier with the increase in food and he did sleep until 6am this morning - a huge improvement! i keep hoping that this lack of sleep phase will end soon, but at least i am pretty good at functioning on very little sleep. it would be much, much worse if he was crabby from the early mornings but he just remains his normal, happy self. it could always be worse. love.