Saturday, July 11, 2009

singin' in the rain

i have a plumbing project i've been working on. the cold water doesn't work in our main bathroom. this means that nathan showers in the master bath, and i have to run cold water to the tub to give the girls a bath. the plumbing needs to be fixed quickly! it looks like the project is on hold until monday now because i'm going to have to find a part (the stem) at a plumbing store because what i have is from 1966 and none of the stems at lowes or home depot match.

since my home maintenance project on hold and it had been raining all day, shelby and i went out to play in puddles :) well, we intended on going for a walk but we have a great puddle on the sidewalk out front. we had all sorts of fun!

after puddle fun comes bath time! elise had two new bath tricks today! she splashed and splashed and splashed some more! shelby was a bit annoyed because she was trying to fill her boat with bubbles and the splashing was distracting. it was funny. i moved elise to the back of the tub, but her second trick was to scoot from one end of the tub to the other. it was really funny. i wonder if she'll try to do that in lieu of crawling.

i read a great article on babies and toddlers imaginations yesterday. i am truly fascinated with shelby's. she's so creative and abstract thinking when she's pretending or when she sees things like letters or shapes in different objects. the first time i remember really seeing it was when she picked up sticks during a walk and said 'y!'

nathan is back from parish's and he and stephon are playing star wars battlefront II on the 360. tomorrow will be the first day in weeks that nathan has been in town and home on the weekend when stephon is here. i've decided that we're going to play hookie from church tomorrow for a family day. i'm feeling inspired, so we're having a star wars day :) we will start with episode I, and keep going until we've seen them all! how fun does that sound !?

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