All tied up!

At the end of May we all celebrated as Sophie learned how to tie her shoe laces.  This is a big accomplishment in our world because Sophie tends to be a little awkward about all physical tasks and her feet are quickly outgrowing all possible velcro options.  She first learned how to tie her laces without her foot in the shoe and quickly realized it was just as easy to do it with the shoe on.

Of course we memorialized the even with pictures of both the tied shoe and Sophie with her tied shoe, which is very cheesy I realize.  However, today I found myself wondering how this lovely plaid, sneaker with tied laces has resulted in EVERYTHING being tied up.

Sophie is tying anything she can find to everything else.  Strings to stuffed animals, old tie belts to her bed, the stuffed puppy tied to her bed, her sweater tied around her waist, skipping ropes to fences, ribbon to dolls, and best ever, her sister tied-up as the pretend puppy!  Yes, she tied a leash on her sister!  Thankfully, she was clever enough to tie it to her sister's ankle and not her neck (which she pointed out in protest when I asked her remove the "leash").  As happy as I was that Sophie learned how to tie her shoelaces I'm now wondering if it was such a good idea to teach her.  I'm hoping the novelty will wear and she will stop tying stuff up, if not I'm trying to decide what future knot-tying career she might have.....sailor is the only appropriate on I can think of.  Let's keep our fingers crossed!