On Sunday, we hosted a reunion with friends from our college, all of whom now have kids. Madeleine must have thought that every time we had friends and their children over we would head over to the pool, because as soon as guests arrived she insisted on taking her dress off, then spent the next half hour or so walking up to any adult she'd encounter asking, "A take a off a diaper pwease?" As you can see from this group kid photo, the dress remained off but we held firm about the diaper remaining ON:
Today was considerably calmer, especially since I was suffering from a migraine. Julia was hard at work building the bunk beds of all bunk beds for Cartacarizza, Project Daddy, and Princess Mia:
A budding architect, she also built several towers:
Maybe instead of giving us her tooth fairy money to buy a new house, she can build one for us someday.
While I spent most of the day on the couch, we did have a big adventure riding the "sixxy-nine bus" over to the Y. I think the girls were more excited about traipsing through the puddles on the sidewalk by the bus stop than they were by going in the play room at the Y:
At one point, the 59 bus heading the opposite direction pulled up at the bus stop across the street. Madeleine went through a spiral of emotions as she saw it pull over, then drive off without us on board:
"Yay!! Da sixxy-nine bus! A get on? A get on a sixxy-nine bus?" As the bus began driving away, she held up both hands, shouting defiantly: "STOP! STOP sixxy-nine bus!"
The sixxy-nine bus did not listen.
With no smooth way to tie these pictures in to the rest of the post, I leave you with the following photos of Madeleine talking on a sippy-cup-phone and eating a banana:
Huwwo?
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