Children put your shoes on!

I decided to take the kids to the local pool, so I told the kids to put on their shoes and what do I find, Madeline wearing none other than her snow shoes! And yes she wore them to the pool, and home and back out to WalMart later in the day. This is a girl, who argues with every shirt, pant, sock and shoe you put on her. She doesn't wear new shoes unless we argue about it and I force her to wear them to show her that they "aren't owie" and yet she puts on her snow boots which she wouldn't wear in the winter snow and on top of that they are a size too small. This is a girl who makes me cut out every single tag out of every piece of clothing because they are owie and only wore sweat pants are winter and she puts on shoes that are too small. We still have one pair of sandals she hasn't put on because she is convinced they will are "owie". She is hilarious when she is determined and there is no use arguing with her.
Harrison doesn't walk outside at all without shoes for fear of stepping on a rolly pollie. So he will throw on whatever is easiest and closest by. Here he put on Daddy's sandals. (No he wasn't allowed to wear them to the pool)
The joys of raising children and learning to be patient!!! It's exciting to think what our third one will bring to the mix we already have.




Here is Madeline very proud of her princess bathing suit and snow shoes!!! If she has her way she would only wear clothes with princesses or a horse on it! She is becoming quite the princess lately evening carrying around her own little purse with an assortment of horses in it.

Madeline and Harrison looking at a rolly pollie (which by the way Harrison has his sister pick up all the bugs as he doesn't want to touch them, so she picks them all up and puts them in his bug collector.) She comes running whenever he calls her to come get a bug. He tells the rolly pollies, ants, bugs, spiders and all the ones he can see good night everytime we come in at night and good morning on our first time out during the day. Generally this is not a fast process.

The kids enjoying a popsicle, Harrison in his rainboots.