Journals: shoes, Onnie House, meemee, story time, Uncle Doggie

August 29th "The Shoes"

Today at the thrift store Jayda came across these pink dazzling shoes.  She was in love with them at first sight.  She wore them around the store admiring them as she walked.  When it came time to leave the store I tried to take them from her to put them back, but she threw a tantrum, screaming and throwing her arms around.  I gave in and bought them for a quarter, and now she refuses to wear any other shoes, even though she can barely walk in them because they are so big.

August 28th
Today Jayda walked her mini stroller from our house to her friend Annie's house, which is a few buildings down from ours.  All the buildings look the same so each building we passed she turned to face and yelled "Onnie house".  I would tell her that was the wrong one, so she would push her stroller to the next building and yell "Onnie house!" and so on until we reached the right building.

Bonus entry: Jayda only gets her binky, which she calls "Meemee", at bed time.  During the day, she isn't really interested in it; in fact when our friends have tried giving it to her when they are babysitting, she gets upset because she thinks it means she has to go to bed.  Usually when she wakes up in the morning and we go in to get her, she stands up, says "Meemee" and hands it to us to put on the shelf by her bed.  But some mornings, she hasn't quite gotten enough "Meemee time" because she climbs into our arms first and sucks enthusiastically on the binky for a couple of seconds before handing it over. 

August 27th
Bed time stories with Dada.
Jordan usually takes care of putting Jayda in bed.  The bed time ritual starts out with stories, then leads to lights out and some singing of songs.  Jayda prefers that Daddy puts her to sleep, because he is so good at reading/telling stories. One of the usual books is "The Belly Button Book" about, well, belly buttons.  Every night now, as soon as she sees the book come out, she pulls up Jordan's shirt and starts playing with his belly button.  Tonight, he squeezed it shut with his hands as if his navel was biting her finger.  She thought it was so funny, and now she loves to dig into everyone's bellybutton, hoping to get a bite from it. 

August 26th
Today during our usual Sunday skype meeting with Jordan's parents, Jayda met "soon to be" Uncle Morgan.  She smiled at him, then pointed her finger at his face and said "doggie"  Maybe it was Morgan's facial hair or just simply the fact that Jayda loves saying the word doggie.  Either way I'm thinking he should now be known as Uncle Doggie.

Just a cute pic of Jayda descending the stair while trying to hold on to her balloons.  It was fun to watch her struggle with the balloons at each step.