august round-up

Someone forgot to tell Miss M that she's not starting school this week. She's taking it relatively well.

In other news, M no longer pees on the potty. She does, however, sit on it, fully-clothed, making the pssss sound we used to use to cue her to go. She also fills it up with alphabet blocks and pushes it around the house like a shopping cart. So we're pretty much half-way there with the whole potty training thing.

This is what superheroes look like five minutes before nap time:

Baby's first mac-n-cheese from a box. Big success. If we do our jobs right, she'll be a college freshman before she realizes that green beans aren't automatically part of the deal.

Practicing her babywearing skills:

"Helping" Mama make bread dough involves stirring a bowl of very-expired rice flour for a few minutes before deciding that it's much more entertaining to make it snow on the cats. There's no documentation of the second part. I was too busy defending the cats.

Showing off her bling:

And taking a well-deserved, albeit brief, nap after all that hard work:

drizzle

It finally rained the other day. After a month-long dry spell, it was actually kind of reassuring to see the gray skies and wet streets. During one of the slightly drier stretches, we took a walk down the block to see what was new. M was kind of excited about everything being, well, wet. We'll see how excited she is about that in the middle of November.

I think I've mentioned how crazy Miss M is about her rain boots. She's been stomping all over the house in them for weeks now. Of course, on the one day it actually rained, we couldn't find her left boot anywhere. So she went out in sneakers instead.

Daddy came home from work just in time to help us check out the biggest snail of the day.

Although August in notoriously dry around here, we've got plenty of mud puddles in our future. Hopefully, Mama and Dad can track down that second little boot before the skies open up for good...