Toes!

Ben went to an MBA meeting at UVU last night and didn't get home till around 7 so the girls and I went for a milkshake and did our own pedicures. When I was a teenager I constantly had my toenails painted and that was one of not many "girlie" things that I liked to participate in. It has been a really really long time and we were bored waiting for daddy so I busted out grandma's foot bath. I knew before I got it out that it was a disaster waiting to happen with DestructOR running rampant. Oh, by the way, I have nicknamed Eden "DestructOR". (Insert previous disclaimer here.) But I thought Hope would enjoy it and water messes aren't too bad to clean up so I went for it.

DestructOR was just as excited as Hope, and I knew she would be. She didn't even make too much of a mess. Don't get me wrong, she was soaked and the towels that the foot bath was sitting on got soaked, but better the towels than the carpet. She liked splashing in the water and thought it was funny that I would try to get her to stop. You can see her trying to get her foot in it in one of the pictures.

Hope thought that the foot scrub was halarious and she even let me put lotion on her feet. Usually she is very anti-lotion. I started painting Hope's toenails when she was 12 months old. I didn't realize what an accomplishment this was until I tried to paint DestructOR's toenails (who is 18 months). But we'll get to that in a minute. Hope has always sat almost perfectly still and seemed to understand even at an early age that she shouldn't touch anything until the paint was dry. She would even blow on her nails in an effort to make them dry faster. She is doing it in one of the pictures above. Hope insisted I paint her fingernails too and didn't get my joke about have to pay me for a mani/pedi instead of just a pedi. Usually she likes to alternate colors on each finger, but this time I talked her into just one color for her fingers and one color for her toes.

The actual nail painting was more of a task than the foot bath because DestructOR was intent on grabbing the open nail polish. After many attempts I finally gave her a closed bottle to carry around and she thought that was pretty cool. She even put it up to her and Hope's toenails acting like she was actually painting them. She sat somewhat still while I quickly painted her toenails. But the moment I was done she sat on her knees....toenails down on the carpet. Surprisingly, none got on the carpet and a little even stayed on her toes. She kept looking down at mine and Hope's toes and then blubbered some non-sense while grinning at her own painted toes. All in all I am glad that I ventured pedicures.

 Maybe if I do it more often DestructOR will get used to it and learn to sit still like her sister did. I'll let you know how it goes.