NOOOOOOOO!

There are more and more words from Sophia, and better sentence structure and grammar, but the most popular one these days is definitely NO. This was screamed at me repeatedly as we left the playground today- as she flailed and kicked and hit me all while I was carrying her flour-sack style on my hip with Stella in the Bjorn. Sigh.

And later she told me she wanted to go back to the playground so she could walk on her own two feet. I had told her that she needed to be able to say goodbye to the playground and walk away on her own two feet like a big girl and not be carried away like a baby. I guess my words got through!

And later she asked very nicely if she could rip up our mail-so nice to be asked!

Photo is pre-Halloween afternoon - weird autumn this year with so many leaves on the trees so late, and some of the dahlias still have blooms on them.

So I have decided on a haircut and have made an appointment and it is SOOOO nice to know that I won't just be a mouse-brown ponytail head everyday. It's old! I am so done with that. So check back to the blog after Thanksgiving for pictures of the before and after. It feels like the coming out of the post-baby Maia. Now we just need to get Stella to stop waking up so many times each night and maybe I won't have so many dark circles, and maybe I will eventually be able to stay awake past 9pm!

ok - it's 8:56pm now and Jeff is already asleep in bed so I should go too...