Simon Sez - You're Smart!

Hour Twelve of a never-ending day in my pointy heels, and I'm pushing the Kid in a cart around Target, looking for rainboots. Because she likes puddles.

A person in a red shirt that reads "TARGET" says the rainboots are "somewhere in that area" and flails her arm back over her shoulder.

Thanks, 'cause I couldn't wander around aimlessly on my own. After I mentally extract my pointy heel from the helpful employee's left eye, I find the Kid's adorable new boots (pictured right).

I also realized that the Kid, who is almost two, is an excellent Simon Sez player. She can touch her head, wave her arms in the air, tap her elbow, blink her eyes, give me a kiss, and laughs hysterically throughout the whole thing. I don't even remember using the word "elbow" in a sentence with her before. So hooray for TV.

When we exited the store, she pointed over my shoulder and started screaming "RAINBOW!". And there was a giant rainbow behind me.

It was like the time we went to Miami Seaquarium and she yelled "DOLPHIN!" when a dolphin stuck its nose out of the water. I had no idea she knew this stuff. I am simultaneously appalled at my own crap parenting, and amazed at all this stuff she knows that I didn't know she knows.

I wish these rainboots came in my size.