The low down

There are so many new things going on each week, each day really, that I can't keep up and post about them all. So I thought I'd try to think about some of the things that you may find interesting, new things Adelaide's doing, and post it all together.

Hair color: Brown on the tips, blonde at the root with red tints throughout. (Try putting that on a passport application)
Eye color: still a gorgeous blue (go recessive genes!)
Teeth: she's gone from 0 teeth to 6 teeth in the past 3 months with 2 more on the way in right now.
Other random characteristics: she's really tall for her age which runs in the family, obviously.
Favorite books: Pat the Bunny (still), Goodnight Moon (still), and a couple new additions to the favs The Very Hungry Caterpillar (she just can't resist all the little holes in the book) and Brown Bear, Brown Bear.
Favorite toys and things to do: She loves walking and cruising right now. Being on all fours is a thing of the past. She probably spends about half of her day on her feet. She loves things with wheels-- a little red car Uncle Mike gave her Christmas, a play train we got her. She's just figured out how to actually push toys around on their wheels. She'll crawl around pushing the car. She likes putting things inside containers and then taking them back out. She still loves chasing the cats and harassing them. And my new favorite thing-- she loves being chased. I'll get down on my hands and knees with her and chase her around. She looks back over her shoulder and squeals and keeps on going.
Eating: The kid loves to eat! Cheerios, crackers, goldfish, avocado, cheese, yogurt, chunks of banana are some of her new big kid foods. She's also becoming quite the fan of beans and cheese; we're not quite as big fans cause of the repercussions. She's had a minor cold recently though which has affected her appetite; it's weird not seeing her gulp down bowl after bowl like there's no tomorrow.
Drinking: I didn't know this was a big deal but others seem to think so. . . Adelaide has been drinking out of a straw for months and prefers it to a regular sippy anyday. It was cool to get her a kid's cup at a restaurant the other day. I've started breaking her of the bottle this week. I figured I'd start now since she's not attached to her bottle. She seems to be doing just fine. She's so thrilled that she can do it all on her own.
Talking: Adelaide is talking up a storm these days. She's making more and more sounds that sound like words. The other day we were at our friends, the Jupes, house, and they were showing off their son Seth's new vocabulary. "Seth say, 'pickle'." He'd say pickle. "Seth say, 'dog'." He'd say dog. "Seth say, 'yellow'." Adelaide said yellow. No lie. It was awesome. She's gotten pretty good at mimicking our sounds when she wants to. The other day we were repeating the word "bear" and she kept saying what sounded like "bear."