Exersaucer

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Originally uploaded by Clan Mussellam.

Big thanks to Hilary and Roan who have very kindly lent us this exersaucer. How cool. The Scotts lent us one while we were in the good ole US so fortunately we have never had to buy one! They are OUTRAGEOUS in price! This one has more doodads and gizmos on it but that is good because Madigan doesn't even touch them yet, but, Maeve sure does! I just got Madigan down for a nap and I've locked Maeve in her room for 1 hour. She can nap if she likes or play but I'm giving myself the gift of peace and quiet for an hour. Hopefully she'll bore herself to sleep! Last time I checked on her she was all snuggled up on her Dora couch aka the naughty couch. So far we have all had to sit on the naughty couch for some reason or another. Maeve sits on it more often than anyone though. Maeve was astounded when I made Michael sit on the naughty couch for being naughty. So was Michael but I think it taught Maeve a really important lesson. Even when you are big you can't be naughty. When Michael catches me being naughty I'll do my turn on the couch to of course! Maeve laughs about who gets to be on that naughty couch and she says Madigan will sit on it too! Now I hope I haven't taught her too much about it! I'm sure I'm going to go into her room and see her forcing Madigan to sit on it one day! Today is a great day. Rainy and poopy! We went to jericho beach and found a puddle stomper's dream! Maeve had so much fun and Madigan slept in the stroller. After about 30mins in the puddles Maeve got cold so I put her in the stroller, warmed her up a bit and gave her some snack on the way up to the park. Once we were at the park Maeve tried out a new climber, crossed the grumpy old troll bridge and refused to come back down via the ladder. Fortunately I speak fluent toddler and I talked her down without incident. The swing however, was with incident! Big pink jacket, warm old navy fleece lined jeans, purple fleece lined muddy buddies + pink pooh bear boots = the ability to go IN but not OUT of the toddler swing on the playground. If anyone had walked past us while I was trying to remove her, they would have thought I was murdering her! It was great, Madigan screaming blue murder in the stroller and Maeve screaming as though I was blue murdering her! How nice! Fortunately again I was clever and removed the offending boots and muddy buddies so Maeve could make her escape! Phew what a day!