cold summer

this week has been a tid bit chilly around ohio. but that's okay! i love it. perfect for not turning the a/c on, still needing a heavy blanket at night...& for painting your bedroom & then also being able to sleep in that bedroom. yes, wes is hard at work finishing our bedroom painting project. we are now to the closet. meaning, all of our clothes are homeless & mostly strewn about it 2 different rooms. getting dressed is like going on a scavenger hunt. you know, {heidi} 'think, where would wes place my belts? if i was wes, i would put my wife's belts *here*. nope, not there, maybe, *here*. nope...'

what is also in disrepair in our house? our master bathroom sink. it has a rusted through under-part that leaks. we can't use it until wes also finds time to fix it. so we are sharing a bathroom with the girls which really has no negative consequences at all. actually, their bathroom is closer to our bed than ours! except maybe that addy likes to take our toothbrushes & toothpaste & brush her teeth. but that's usually worse for her, who is not used to the crest-adult-style toothpaste. she smacks her lips for about 10 minutes after these adventures in adult toothpaste land.

& this is a gross story, prepare to say "ewwww"!!!!
two days ago, as i was reading something online while amelia was napping & addy was finishing her poop-n-watch tv time, which coincides with me putting amelia down for a nap. i was very interested in what i was reading, apparently, b/c addy was making some noises to get my attention & i was mostly oblivious. i heard her, but i was like 'just a second addy, mama is reading...' then she walks over to me with something in her hand: a turd! adeline had this look of 'what am i to do with this smelly gooey object that is normally in my pull up?' she had poo-ied all the way out the back of her pull-up & it fell onto the floor with a near silent *splat*...addy had maybe tried to pick it up with her book (goodnight moon, which i may never read again although i attempted to disinfect it several times already). there was poo coming out of her pull up still. i said to her "don't move & for sure don't give me that thing in your hand!" i lifted her, facing me (like i want that butt in my face as i carry her to change the butt!). it was an exercise of strength, to carry a kid at arm's length up the stairs as she is trying to investigate the interesting *turd* in her hand. looking back, i should've just made her put it in the toilet downstairs, but what fun would that have been?

anyway, amelia is a DJ! at her cousins' birthday party a few weeks ago, they were given a keyboard as a gift. the twins thought it was cool, but then moved on to opening other gifts, as all kids do. amelia was fixated on that keyboard & began playing with it. she was really quite good at creating music. so when we got home, i made a point to get our keyboard out & show her that her family is cool too & has a fun toy such as the twins. ever since i showed it to her, she goes for it several times a day, playing with all the different sounds & beats & keyboards. she's doing it right now! then she bops around a wee bit like a baby would to music & has this look of 'hhmm, maybe i should slow the tempo down a bit? add a bit more drums?' then sometimes addy will meander into amelia's dj space & start to either take it away, so she can naturally play with it, or start to dance. do they have rhythm, you may be thinking? nah, they're my girls! they look like elaine from seinfeld, just like wes & i do when dancing...we suck! but, they love to dance & i hope to never take that away from them (in fact, i do plan on sending them to a dancing class or two so they don't look sooo out of it at a large public school dance where kids can be oh so mean). so, yes, my 9 month old has talent, a promising future. i've heard that female dj's are the next big thing.

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so, good news on the speech therapy front! addy's speech therapist called & she had a drop-out for the expressive speech delay summer playgroup (yes, there is such a thing!). her speech therapist immediately thought of adeline as the replacement...which is amazing & wonderful & answers so many prayers. i have been a bit worried about how i was to get two things accomplished: #1 find adeline a playgroup with more than a few kids her near exact age #2 find kids who will not make her feel embarrassed or odd b/c she doesn't talk (she is now starting to understand that she doesn't talk as well as other kids her age & we can see that she is getting embarrassed & sometimes teary-eyed...such as not wanting to go into the church classroom b/c she can't interact as everyone else does). anyway! we've overheard a few kids ask her, in a kid-interested-way 'why don't you talk?' & since addy can understand language better than most kids her age, she knows what these kids are asking or saying about her. it's sad, but i don't think these kids are being mean, just curious. sometimes, maybe being purposefully mean, but usually not. anyway! she's in this playgroup now & apparently there is this other girl nearly addy's exact age with about the same amount of words & the speech therapist said she would love to see addy & this other girl set up private playgroups...we shall see! it starts mid-june & goes for 8 weeks. we're stoked, i tell you. good news, good news.

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& now amelia has found her way over to me & is holding onto my legs, crying. time for nap.