Thursday sans dad

Dad is out of town again today. Just to run up to MN for the night. We ladies are here holding down the fort. It's hot here and so we were looking for ways to amuse ourselves in the AC.Evie modeled her new backpack. School starts for her in about 2 weeks. When we asked her what type of backpack she wanted, we expected her to say "orange" or "pink", but she replied very specifically "Hello Kitty". I have no idea where her current knowledge of Hello Kitty comes from but I imagine it has something to do with a certain 9 year old girl that lives in Noblesville. Anyway, I figured that we would be on a wild goose hunt for a Hello Kitty backpack, but we lucked out. We went to Target and there it was like a shining beacon. Evie ran to it yelling "Hello Kitty! Hello Kitty!" Fortunately, there weren't too many people around to witness my daughter's public cross over to commericalism. Note to Grandmas: this doesn't mean you have to go out and buy all the Hello Kitty stuff you can find.
Like we said, Dad is in MN and so we went to the library because it is air conditioned. While we were walking through the truck and construction section...again...we stumbled through the craft section. There was a whole book of things to make out of pipe cleaners! What a find. Guess what we will be doing tomorrow. This is Evie playing ring toss with the pipe cleaners while I make dinner.
Stinks (or Annalise, as you may know her), well, she is becoming quite the climber. She climbed up onto Evie's stool by the counter. As you can see, Evie has a few inches on her. She has yet to fall backwards and klunk her head on the ceramic tile. I'm sure it will happen soon as she also climbs all of the chairs in the kitchen like they are ladders.