Big shoes to fill

Stasa loves shuffling along in our shoes and she even manages to make it a few feet before tripping or getting stuck. The other day after Tom got home, she beelined it for his shoes and climbed right in. 






And she started shuffling over to me, happy as could be. 



She even managed to keep walking after one of the shoes got turned around.



After she was sound asleep for the night, I crept into her room and snapped a picture of the sleeping beauty. She always falls asleep sucking on her blankey and it's usually so gross and wet by the time she's asleep.

Bath crayons are entertaining and somewhat tasty

I came home a little early on Thursday and needed to finish up some work, but didn't feel like being upstairs, so I set Stasa up in her highchair with the bath crayons and she went to town.

Of course, I got her started off...

She kept gripping the green crayon, so her hands were beginning to resemble those of the Hulk.

Then she got tired of actually coloring her tray and tried coloring her head.

And when that didn't work she decided to see if the crayons would make a tasty snack...

...apparently it did not taste good.

I was cracking up the whole time. I think she learned her lesson about eating crayons. 

Just another hot and lazy afternoon

It was hot hot hot so Stas spent some time playing in just her diaper. Jason and Geraldine's air conditioning went out, so we had a big slumber party at our house on Wednesday night. Before they came over, Tom, Stasa and I got some playtime in.



Stasa threw things (all things) down the stairs for the cat.




And then decided to empty her ball pit, multiple times.





Meanwhile, I snapped pictures while Tom chatted with Vinces.

Grocery shopping with Stas

We went grocery shopping as a family Tuesday evening, which we don't normally do since Tom doesn't like me going because I don't always buy sale items and he's a bargain shopper (he shops the "hobo" meat section, for chrissake).

Anyway, we decided to all go to together on Tuesday and Stasa really had a lot of fun. She talked the entire time she was in the cart. Oh and I learned something as well. Grocery store lighting is terrible and constantly changing.

And being silly:

As we walked through the store, she would point and say "ba-boo?" and sure enough, there was a balloon nearby. I wanted to buy her a balloon, especially since she was so well behaved, but they were $3.99. Definitely not worth it. 

She mostly just sat and took in her surroundings, all while talking, of course (she is my daughter, after all).

And then it was time to leave and we were greeted with a blast of hot nasty air as soon as we stepped outside. Stasa did not appreciate it.

Nor did she appreciate being buckled in the car.

Cell phone pic montage

Stasa has fun dressing up at daycare and last week she got to pretend to be a fancy ladybug.



And some of the monster on one of our many walks.

Today on the Stasa channel...

Prepare yourself for the shortest tantrum ever. I think she just gets bored with them. Or she's using the tantrum as a distraction so we're not paying 100% attention to her and she can do what she wants.



Falling asleep



And "cleaning" her crib before coming out



And at the pool with Gigi and and the kids:

The holiday weekend, part 4

The last of the holiday weekend. We once again went for a walk after we woke up, but this time we slept in until 9:00 - all 3 of us. I'm guessing all of the manual labor we've been doing over the weekend finally caught up to us. After our walk we headed home to meet up with the people who were taking our stone lion bench and landscaping bricks we posted on Craigslist. Who knew free landscaping bricks would be so popular?


While Stasa napped, we detailed the Chevelle and took about 100 pictures and a few videos of it running so we could post it on Craigslist, too. 


Oh and I had lunch with 2 beggars Monday: