Photo Challenge Day 18

My bestest friends from Scotland Amanda and Michelle reminded me of this story the last time I visited. I was in my last year at university, studying for my last ever exams and I'd bought a beautiful new pair of shoes. Oh, they were so pretty. I kept looking at them and being happy that they were mine. Soon I was looking a them more than the (boring) psychology textbook and I had to put them away so I could concentrate. I love those shoes.

From a young age Fiona has also shown an interest in shoes... here she is at Christmas dinner at great grandma's nursing home in 2009 (around 18 months).

(The pictures look really grainy tonight, you can click them for a clearer (and larger) version).

You can tell from the next picture that she is taller, but not much else has changed! This is her official "check out my shoes, aren't they awesome?!" smile.

She still loves to put my shoes on and clomp around the house, and it seems Adele is taking after her. Given that she still gets around on all fours she just wears the shoes on her hands. The girl is obsessed with wearing shoes on her hands. It's hilarious.

(She's just getting ready here, once she has them on it's almost impossible to take her picture because despite the fact that she's crawling while wearing high heeled shoes on her hands, she's fast!)

Sadly I don't have many opportunities to wear all my fun high heeled shoes any more (or un-sadly in a way because my sensible sandals are MUCH more comfortable!) but luckily the girls pull all my shoes out on a fairly regular basis and wear them all.

30 Day Photo Challenge Day 18: Your Shoes

Adele makes herself clear

Adele is communicating more and more. She gets a lot across with pointing - it's really surprising how much she manages to say with just pointing! She has some words too, and her favorite word is Dada. She looooooves Dada. I ask her to say Mama all the time and this is what she does... I think she is deliberately tormenting me!

We went to the mall after Ben got home and Fiona went on the merry-go-round. Adele got really excited about the ferris wheel and wanted to tell me all about it. She's funny and cute!

When Fiona was this age I used to look forward to when she could talk more, but now she can and it's a mixed blessing, so I'm just enjoying Adele as she is, screechy and pointy and grunty :-) She's lovely.

Girls and songs.

Fiona likes for me to sing "you are my sunshine" to her, except using "goofball" instead of "sunshine". Today she was singing it to me and I managed to catch it on video. She was in a videoing mood, normally she clams up when I point it at her.

Not to be outdone we discovered that when you sing the beginning of James Blunt's Stay the Night (badly) Adele gets crazy excited! It is also adorable :-)

Fiona loves this song She calls it "wahoo" and asks for it all the time. She likes to watch it on youtube and dance around.

Here's the video...

And here she is singing it. She's singing "wahoo, wahoo... stay the night"

Tomorrow we are heading off to the Wisconsin Dells for a week with my Aunt and Uncle and cousins. It is bound to be a really fin time, but right now I an 3% prepared, so I should go and do some laundry!