On a cleaner, drier note

A few days ago I told the kids to get their shoes on so we could go to Target. Kate came downstairs quite pleased with herself for "tying" her own shoes. I've never thought about teaching her to tie since she has no shoes with laces. Or so I thought. She deemed these too-small hiking boots just the right look for her outfit and dug them out of the bottom of her shoe bin. To her credit the laces stayed put through our whole shopping trip (however she did have to ride in the cart because her feet hurt. Wrong size + wrong feet = bad fit.)