My brave little toaster

So first off, it was like 145 degrees today. No easing into summer here. While I sat and sweated off 16 pounds, I wondered if there was a point to putting more than a diaper/pull up on my kids since they were already hotter than Hell. I decided against it. All of these half-nude pictures will be sweet when they're older, right?

Then it occured to me that I've taken no video of Ainsley crawling and she's already pulling up and cruising around. She is definitely going to think I loved Avery more when she's an adult and we force her to watch the hours of boring video clips of Avery doing minute and mundane things like picking her nose for the first time and eating a roly-poly.

So while Ainsley was all toasty warm and almost naked, I thought I'd take a few shots to show how fearless this kid is. I told a few friends that I think I was meant to have girls because boys are so rough, and I don't think I'd handle them well.

It turns out girls can be pretty rough too -- or at least that's the first thing that popped into my mind today when Ainsley lunged for Avery's arm and tried to extract a pound of flesh as revenge for ripping a book out of her hands. She's a fiesty one, that Ainsley. Let's just hope Avery doesn't lose a chunk of her ear in one of their daily wrestling matches.

So first, she climbed up onto the little push car, and proceeded to roll it all the way across the floor like she'd done it a hundred times before. This, the girl who still loses her balance while just sitting right in the middle of the floor and slams her head onto the tile. She was so proud too... Avery about keeled over because she had to share the little car she outgrew over a year ago.


Then, I took out the little tunnel that Avery loves so much, and at first Ainsley wanted nothing to do with it. Then she watched Avery crawl through and laugh and scream like a banshee, so she decided she'd give it a whirl. I don't remember Avery warming up so quickly to the idea of crawling through this thing.


Oh, and check out the choppers!