Vacation, Day 2

While Ethan, Julia and I have been busy recreating, Madeleine has been busy getting into anything and everything she can manage to get into. She has been out of her mind with excitement at being in an entirely new surrounding, full of as yet unexplored niches and objects. She has managed to get into quite a lot of mischief already; for example, climbing, fully clothed in her pj's, into the full bathtub and plonking her entire body down in the water. I should point out that the tub was full simply because she had just taken a bath, been dried off, and put into her pj's so she could go to bed nice and clean. Apparently she wasn't ready to be done bathing yet and decided to take matters into her own hands.

After being stripped out of her wet pjs and changed into a dry diaper, it was time for dinner, followed by a dessert of chocolate cupcakes made by Auntie Shannon. In Madeleine's case, the dessert was more of a chocolate crumble, created by her own hands all over the kitchen floor, and then gobbled back up off the floor:



Today has been a lot of fun for both girls, beginning with brunch at one of our favorite Atlanta eateries, The Flying Biscuit, at which Julia got to actually order mac 'n cheese for her brunch, and Madeleine got to focus her attentions on repeatedly dipping pieces of her oatmeal pancake in my bowl of warm fruit compote. We spent the rest of the morning at Piedmont Park, where the girls got to run all around the playground (or, in Madeleine's case, run off from the playground chasing after a guy with a weedwacker.) We cooled off in the afternoon, following naptime, with a family swim in Auntie Shannon's pool, then had an evening out for burgers and frozen yogurt. Madeleine very proudly ate her cup of fro yo all by herself with a plastic spoon:



All in all, a busy and exciting day for both kids; we'll have to see what new adventures await us tomorrow!