Shoes and More Shoes

Addie is working hard, trying to learn so many different things.
She tries - so hard.

She is still working on learning to put on her shoes.

These shoes are a little too big for her, which happened to be a good thing on this particular day.

Julien and I were standing right by her, when she grabbed her shoes and slipped her left shoe on without too much effort.  
We were both looking on, so very proud, waiting for her to get the right shoe on as well.


She tried...and tried...


and just at the brink of her getting frustrated and upset, Julien stepped in to make it all better.



The Little Monkey is making progress.
Slow progress, but progress.

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