What We Did Today (Actually Sunday--this is a couple of days late!)

Today we went to the extremely cool National Women's History Museum, which is in nearby Seneca Falls (aka "Seneca Waterfalls"). The toddler wanted to dress up, so she picked out a neon green shirt covered with realistic pictures of bugs, which she topped with a green "dancing dress" decorated with a pink, purple and yellow batik pattern. On her feet she wore orange, yellow and white striped knee-highs and mid-calf black leather boots. Needless to say, she was the coolest-looking kid at the museum. This weekend is the anniversary of the first women's rights convention, and we got to see the former surgeon general, Antonia Novello, speak.

Charles got a child seat for his bike yesterday, and the kid absolutely adores it. While riding in it, she continuously sings "Bicycle Built for Two." (That is her favorite song after "Big River" by Johnny Cash.) Today they went to the P&C to pick up ice cream to go with the peach-raspberry crisp that was dessert. She has never had crisp before, and while she ate it, she stared at me with a dazed, glazed look on her face. Finally she slurped her spoon and proclaimed with a deep, satisfied sigh, "This is good." She spent the next fifteen minutes mixing up the vanilla ice cream with the leftover crisp. When I asked her what it was, she said "Magic." "No, what do you call it?" "Awesomes-Opums Pie." I had to ask her three times what she had said, and each time she pronounced clearly, "Awesomes-Opums Pie." Then when I asked her if she was done eating, she said, "Oh, I suppose not!" She only went to bed when her Papa promised he would eat the Awesomes-Opums Pie after she went to sleep.