Since then...

A whole new world has been opened for this dynamic duo.  Pictures can't capture the wonder, the glee, the material free-for-all, the huge dollars (in the three figures!), the future planning.  Roller skates for a stuffed dog,  that's all I need to say. 

After dragging them out of Build-a-Bear, Little Miss spied the toddler playground--it was closed for cleaning much to her chagrin.  I'm afraid she's too tall for it already.  THEN she spied some kind of bungee harness/trampoline kid bouncy thing.  The line was looooooong and we had other stops to make while still trying to make it home in time for the Superbowl.  Of course, we had to stop for a pretzel right across from this child's fantasy contraption.  A little torture with your strawberry lemonade?  I feel certain she's going to like going to this mall in the future.  And I'll have someplace to dump her and Loverboy.  This may work out for me.  Anyway, we snacked next to this fountain and tossed pennies in for wishes. 

She's taken to posing.

On the way out, Molly treated us to TWO new pairs of shoes EACH.  Jackpot!!  While I went with basic black Clark's for work, Little Miss has developed an affinity for hightop sneakers.  She wore these all day yesterday apparently.  They remind me of Rainbow Brite's shoes.  We hit GardenRidge where they had a fifty cent book clearance.  We missed the first quarter of the game.  I like the Oprah/Dave/Leno commercial and the Doritos dog/guy in the shock collar the best.

She and Loverboy spent a couple of (cold) hours in the sticker patch that is our back yard.  I'd like to (have Loverboy) till up the whole shebang and plant a serious vegetable garden.  But I'm afraid my thumb is green only in my garden fantasies.  A lot the outdoor time was spent on Ol' Bouncy.  210 bounces--WITH daddy counting, so you know it's accurate!

They did a lot of kicking around the soccer ball.  A very effective way of picking up stickers from the backyard.  In fact, I think this ball was abandoned in our yard by kids who kicked it in and gave up fighting the stickers to get it back.  Finders/stickers keepers.  She's wearing her black hightops here, by the way.

The world, turned upside down (in a Mama knit hat).  I still haven't found a way to rotate pictures here. 

After Daddy-made dinner, you KNOW it involved mac & cheese, we played with a birthday gift game.  Little Miss won rounds one and three, Loverboy the second.

We love family game night!