Temperature issues

Guess what this is? This is Ari, listening to the dishwasher. The dishwasher is running, and she's just standing there, her little ear smushed up against the front, looking for all the world like she's trying to hear someone's heartbeat, or the distance to the band of orcs that has the halflings.

Today was the first of the last of Thad's consecutive days off for some time. He's off today and tomorrow (party!), but then he only gets singleton days off for several weeks. Singleton days hardly feel like they even count; it takes about two days for it to be worth it for him to try to go diurnal again, so the only difference is he's here late at night instead of the Target.

We also got the spare bed/loveseat moved into the spare room yesterday- FINALLY. Theresa's air mattress, which many of you have used and enjoyed, finally sprung a leak two days before Dragon*Con.

This meant that Thad couldn't sleep in the spare room after work, which meant that Ari and I couldn't hang out up there, which meant that a) Ari didn't get to hang out in her favorite place in the house, which was rough for us, and b) I never got to clean up after D*Con packing. So, the bedroom was a horrific mess and only got worse. But since Thad was sleeping in the spare room today, I was able to clean. Yay, mostly clean bedroom!

This is Ari playing with her blocks. She had great fun letting Brooke build towers and then knocking them down... it finally got to the point where Brooke couldn't even attempt to build the towers anymore, before Ari was trying to knock them down!

Ari loves the wagon for the blocks, too. At the moment, it's serving as a bookshelf for her favorite books.

And this is Ari playing with a spoon she got out of my purse. She went, rifled through my purse, and pulled this out- it's one of those long milkshake spoons. I had to take a picture; this was just too cute.

Tonight, she also discovered "pony rides"- you know, where you balance the baby on your leg and balance them up and down. I couldn't do them at all (my knees suck) but Brooke and Thad had great fun with it, and she just kept demanding that Brooke give her more horsey rides.

She's also showing more signs of talking. She definitely seems to know "mama", and she has been more and more imitating words that I say. It's very cool.