Rain Rain, Go Away

Today is the second rainy day this week, and it's tough figuring out what to do with Evie here.  The Cape is a nice weather destination, so there aren't many options for rainy day activities.  Especially for toddlers (though, I won't deny I've considered taking Evie bowling for lack of a better idea).  So, after we took her to the tailor for my oh-so-riveting dress alterations and the market to pick up a box of tomatoes, it was time to come home.  She was bored of being carted in and out of her car seat anyhow.

Once home we made our way to the living room to play with some of her toys.  First, we read her "100 first words" book, where she pointed to her favorite pictures and attempted to pronounce them.  "Dat!" (fire truck, obviously).  "Dadu!" (butterfly).  "Prrrrrr" (car). "Khhhh" (duck).  The duck sound is a la Will who rejects the idea that ducks say "quack" and instead attempts a Donald Duck impression which Evie loves to imitate.  So, everytime we see a duck in a book or in real life she sounds like she's about to spit.  Lovely.

After reading reading her book, we moved on to puzzles.  She especially enjoys her shape sorter bucket.  Mostly because she's found the short cut solution to getting the shapes in their bucket.  We begin the activity by dumping all the shapes onto the floor and Evie begins picking through them to decide which one she'd like to drop in the bucket.  She usually starts with a star, makes a few attempts at fitting it in the wrong hole, then picks up a circle and drops it in the circular cut out.  "Nice job," I say. She finds another circle and drops that one in successfully as well.  Then she picks up the star and tries to force it into the circle.  After one or two attempts, she lifts the lid off the bucket and just drops the star on in.  She proceeds this way with all the other shapes, quietly completing the task in the way that makes the most sense.  After all, her impression of the goal is to get the shapes in the bucket, so why waste her time trying to figure out which holes they fit into when she can just lift the lid?  After she has finished putting all the pieces in the bucket, she then dumps them out and fits a few into the bucket lid and walks away.  That's enough of that, I suppose.

So, as I was writing this entry, I was happy that Evie had begun taking two naps again on the Cape.  It's not always convenient time wise, but it was going to be perfect on the rainy day as I had run out of ideas with what to do with her.  But of course, she decided to interrupt this entry by refusing to go down for her afternoon nap and becoming so hysterical that I had to go rescue her.  Fortunately, as I finish this up a day later, the sun has returned and we had a lovely beach day that so exhausted her she is now happily taking her second nap of the day.  Phew!