I Don't Know Where She Gets It

mom and i took annie shoe-shopping today and she freaked out. and not an oh-my-goodness-i'm-so-excited-i'm-getting-new-shoes freak, it was a complete psychotic breakdown and i'm still a little stunned and confused by the whole episode. maybe the overbearing sales ladies were just IT for her. maybe she just wanted to be left alone. it's possible she got that from me. i'm sorry to anyone who works retail, but i really hate to talk to sales associates - unless, of course, I am the one to initiate the conversation. anyway, we were doing fine while we were looking at all the pretty shoes - just pondering which pair would be the best - but then when it came time to try a pair on the sales lady wanted to measure annie's foot and...whoa. WHOA. W-H-O-A Nelly. it was a disaster. annie was kicking, screaming - and i mean SCREAMING - pulling the hair of the sales lady while she tried to force annie's foot into the measuring thingy...it was pretty embarrassing. then again, if i had some obnoxious freako trying to shove my foot into some weird metal contraption all the while talking to me like some baby, well, i might pull her hair, too. even mom said the sales ladies were a bit obnoxious. i mean, maybe (ms. sales lady) you could just let ME try to measure her foot...maybe, just maybe if you let me put the shoe on her foot and didn't HOVER in the background and talk to her the whole time, MAYBE we could have made it work out. but noooooooooooooo, you had to sit there - right in her line of vision the whole time - and make her even more nervous and scared of you than she was to begin with. honestly, people. you would think that people who work at a store for kids would maybe know a little about them. you would think.

regardless, i've never met a girl who didn't like a new pair of shoes - or two - and sure enough, as soon as we got home annie couldn't wait to get her new kicks on...they even light up. i fear this might be the end of annie's cute face because i can already see her getting distracted by the lights on her feet and forgetting to pay attention to where she's going and - BOOM! - there's the table/wall/ground, etc. we'll see how it goes. i personally think the shoes that light up are hysterical and weird...but cute...so they win.

we're having a great time here at chez mama and papa - life is good, food is good, all is well. i'm excited to get down to texas to see my m.i.a hubby and feel the warm, warm sun on my translucent skin...but in the mean time, this is wonderful. mom is good enough to volunteer to join us on our road trip which is nothing but good news for me - and for the babies, too. now i have good company AND assistance, this is such a relief. i was beginning to wonder how i was going to handle a simple thing like a bathroom break.

jasper is his usual calm self. he's been taking bottles - even with formula - which is really making me happy. he's on the move rolling every which way and nearly pulling himself up into a crawling position...he gets one knee under him and his arms out like he's going to do a push-up, and then he realizes he's just too weak to accomplish that task. it's too soon, buddy. i'm not ready. he's also been doing a lot of pilates lately. he lays on his back and then he lifts his head up and his feet up and he does this intense isometric ab workout for like 15 seconds and then...rest...and again he goes. it's crazy. i don't think i could hold myself in that position for that long, what with my atrophied abs and all...

that's about it for now. gloomy here today. we're just nestled in by the fire, snuggling up to some dora. oh yeah. i know you're jealous.

xoxo