I guess we may have the next Carrie Bradshaw on our hands. It’s interesting how Katie wants to have her shoes off all the time, but Amelia must have shoes on at all times.
I can’t really pinpoint when this started, but the biggest example was one morning in Branson as we were all waking up. Amelia was taking everyone’s shoes around to them and standing saying "Ugh, ugh" until we put on our shoes. I don’t think I had any pants on at the time, but if I was going to be able to get around a 2 foot tall fireball, I was going to have to have my shoes on.
So now every night when we put her pajamas on, Amelia insists on putting shoes on on top of her PJ feet. In her normal shoes, this doesn’t work very well, and led to me throwing them across the room one night as Amelia wouldn’t sleep unless I got them on her feet. The problem was that I couldn’t make them fit. So we were at an impasse, and all I could think to do was to chuck the shoes across the room and deal with the subsequent 5 minutes of crying that would ensue.
Amelia isn’t quite aware that you can only have one pair of shoes on at a time. At least 10 times, she’s brought me another pair of shoes when I had shoes on already. It’s so cute when she’s doing it, you feel bad for not indulging her. One time I did switch shoes, but then she just "ugh"ed at me because I didn’t have the shoes I just took off on. The girl’s stubbornness is already legendary.
She still isn’t talking – she says "Daha" for Dora and "Daa" for Daddy, so she’s getting close. She can understand what’s going on very well now though. If I tell her outside, she knows where to go, just like garbage, bath, eat time, car and park. I don’t believe the reports we got this summer that she can’t hear as well, unless that’s what’s keeping her from talking. You can tell she can hear just fine. And trust me when I say, when it comes to shoes, she can definitely see.
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