Piper's Pasta Party

Today I stood back and shook my head as I watched Piper play.

I really really did.

Just stood there and shook my head.

I don't know where I found this child,

but I would just love to know what goes on inside her head.

I'm STILL shaking my head!

To make a long story short,

we went grocery shopping and canned pasta was on sale.

I noticed a can of Dora the Explorer shaped pasta

in tomato sauce.

I thought,

hmmmmm...

Piper loves Dora,

so perhaps this would be a fun treat to share for lunch some day.

Little did I know,

it turned out to be a very fun TOY in the mean time.

She found it as we were unpacking the groceries. 

She squealed and danced and hugged the can.

"Dor Boots, Dor Boots, Dor Boots" is all she kept saying.

Then she placed the can in the cupboard,

pushed it to the back,

moved the other canned goods in front of it

and walked away for a second. 

Then she went back to the cupboard,

moved each can away from "Dor Boots"

and squealed "There you are"!!

Repeat.

Repeat.

Repeat.

Each time she 'hid' Dor Boots,

she'd say "see you soon".

Honestly.

This game of Hide and Seek lasted for a good 20 minutes,

if not longer.

I know you're shaking your head as you read this!!

A CAN OF PASTA!!!!!!

xo

You can't really tell,
but she's clapping her hands and dancing here!

Restarting the game of Dor Boots Hide and Seek!

SO proud of her Dor Boots pasta!

Sweet Jesus! Excuse my language, but honestly, God please please help me! I wrote this post as Mark was trying to put Piper to bed. She's been fighting us for the past few nights for some reason, so it's been difficult. He left her to cry it out and within a few minutes I heard a thump. Then Piper crying/screaming. I look at the monitor and NO PIPER! Of course I run. FAST. When I opened her bedroom door, there she was, standing in the middle of her bedroom with her blankie in her arms crying. I scooped her up asking her if she was okay and she told me that she "climbed, fell down and chin hurt". Oh dear Lord! If this is going to be something that she repeats, how in the world am I going to manage toddler-bed training a toddler while nursing a newborn??????? I'm not sure that combination is survivable! I may get lucky yet. As I rocked Piper in her rocking chair and calmed her down, she kept repeating that she fell and that her chin hurt. Perhaps she frightened herself enough to stop herself from trying it again?? Could I be that lucky?? Last month she touched our fireplace after endless warnings to stay away from it. She burned her thumb and two fingers. It wasn't anything major, but it hurt and she ended up with blisters on those three digits. Ever since, she won't go anywhere NEAR the fireplace and gets terribly upset if one of her toys happens to fall too close to it. She doesn't even want Blue to sit next to it. It ended up being a great learning experience in the end, since it wasn't a serious burn and she learned her lesson!! Let's all just hope it ends up being the same thing with this climbing out of bed thing. Oh please please please! My mind/body/soul cannot even begin to contemplate the pending exhaustion of combining the bed training while nursing a newborn!!! Sob!