Today, I got a preview of the rest of my summer. I woke up this morning to rain, so I dressed accordingly: pants, shirt, sweater. I was so glad that I did because all day at work I was freezing. I sat at my computer, wrapped up in a blanket or I would take brief jogs up and down the stairs just to keep the blood circulating.
Six shivering hours later I emerged from my igloo expecting to be hit by a wave of frosty air. Instead, I broke into a sweat before I had a chance to peel off my sweater. I guess rain in the morning and 82 in the afternoon make muggy weather.
By the time I pulled into the driveway I had rivulets of sweat trickling down my neck. I got into the house and immediately changed into appropriate summer attire, ate a late lunch with Tanner, and then we all piled into the car to get Kate from school. Georgie saw the school building first and started to screech, "Tatie! Tatie! Come here!"
After we had successfully secured our eldest daughter. we headed for our favorite park and played a game of tag. Even Georgie got into it though she thought the idea was to get tagged. It was at the park that I noticed Kate's shoes. They just looked funny. They didn't match her height, so after the kids were all sweaty and exhausted we clambered back into the car and went to our favorite store.
I measured Kate's foot. She is now officially a size 1. Just. To give her room to grow, we had to buy size 1.5. The shoe she had been wearing? 13. I picked out the tennis shoes. She picked out the dress shoes. The dress shoes are strappy, pink and sparkly. The tennis shoes are tan. I sometimes feel way too practical. Since we were getting Kate shoes, we also got shoes for Reagan and shoes for Georgie. They had both grown a size as well. Reagan begged for a pair of pink slippers with pink "diamonds" on the band. Thank goodness Georgie doesn't know any better and all she wants is "Thooos!"
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