Tomorrow

Adelaide has another ear infection so we're off to the ENT tomorrow. She wasn't well for very long. If you read this before tomorrow afternoon, pray that we'll all be wise and do what's best for our sweet girl.

Also please pray for Adelaide's weight gain and that she's stop throwing up. She's been vomiting regularly since the beginning of February. I've been recording her vomiting episodes for almost 2 weeks now and she's only had 3 puke free days. Some days she vomits alot though-- the most being 4 times in one day. We're not sure what is causing it. We're currently cutting wheat out of her diet to see if that may be the problem. We'll see. I'm just so sad for the girl. It's hard to see her covered in vomit so often and not gaining weight. A positive is that I've gotten quite good at removing the car seat cover from the seat. :)

Our Baby is a Kid

Adelaide is growing up right before our eyes. She always looked bigger and bigger, but now she is just seeming older. Wow, I can't even really describe all the things that make Adelaide seem like a big kid, but I'm gonna try and list a few.

Words and sounds--
She is "talking" up a storm. She is saying more and more words and is starting to "parrot" what we are saying. Scary. New words today-- potato and cado (as in avocado). Can you guess what was on the menu today? Seriously her actually eating those things at the moment definitely helped us figure out what she was saying, but still, it was pretty cool.

Her words to date are-- mama, dada, dog, whoa (i guess we say this more than we realize), no, bye-bye (bahbah, wow (this is only a parroted word), and awh (only when hugging or kissing something).

We ask Adelaide "what sound does a lion make?" We get a roar. We cough. She coughs. We sneeze. She coughs (she can't quite imitate that perfectly). She still sounds like a wookie occasionally. She still buzzes her lips. She makes new cool sounds everyday and will imitate us when we make them too. It's so neat.

Doing things and listening--
She is doing new things everyday. Since my post about stairs she can now go down with ease and does so without prompting. She'll be out in the yard playing and kneel down, turn around, and scoot down off our back slab. It's pretty funny that she'll do that no matter how big the drop off. She did it today going down a one inch drop off. Hey, better safe than sorry. She can get off the couch and bed safely as well incorporating the same skill.

She can do lots of things on command (well, when she feels like it). She can wave hello and bye bye and loves to do it all the time. When we go to the store that's pretty much what she does. I feel sad when she gets so excited and is waving and no one returns her sweet waving. She will clap when I tell her to. You say "shake" and she'll shake what she's holding.

She can pull all the tabs and flip all the flaps in her favorite book Tails. She can pretend to brush her teeth and her hair. She will put things back when I tell her to (well, sometimes); she will help me put toys into her baskets. She can eat pretty much like an adult and has managed to chew even steak. Seriously. She can step into her pants to help me put them on. She can roll a car around on its wheels and make a car sound. She can throw or roll a ball to me (well, she can throw a ball. it may not even make it close to me). She pretends to drink from any cylindrical object around the house. She points to things she wants and lets me know it (though she pretty much refuses to sign things to let me know). She shakes her head no and nods yes when she's really excited about something. She can take all of her clothes off and stick her hand in her diaper (I'm not really excited about that one). She can open and close doors and drawers. She knows the difference between her baby, Ling (her stuffed monkey), and Puppy (another stuffed animal). She can usually tell me (by pointing or picking up the appropriate one). She can walk without having her arms out like wings. She drinks her milk out of a sippy all by herself. Anyway, there's some of the new things; I'm sure I'm missing a bunch and boring everyone that's reading this but it's my blog. It's mostly to help me remember it all so you can get over it :).

This week she is turning one. Sometimes it's weird to think about what life was like one year ago. It's flown by so fast. It's been an amazing year. I never thought I'd be saying that. I love my kiddo (can you tell?). Here's some recent pictures of the nearly one year old.

I love that I can put her hair in pigtails now. Pigtails are the new hairdo of choice.




Spring weather brings out our desire to go outdoors. As Adelaide's birthday present and something I've been wanting to get for awhile, we got this bike trailer/ jogging stroller. We love it so far.


Watching Dad work:


here's a video I took a couple of weeks ago. She's just playing with opening and closing the door to our bathroom.

Sheer goofiness

New sounds are fun:


Nakedness is fun too. You'd think she'd never seen her own belly before:

Stairmaster

No, I'm not talking about the piece of exercise equipment. I'm talking about Adelaide. She has been able to climb up the stairs for a long time now. Just in the past week we've been trying to teach her how to go down the stairs safely. Until yesterday she just didn't seem ready, but I think she's finally getting the hang of it. I'm so proud of her. There are so many things to think through to climb down the stairs backwards. Here's some clips of her in the learning process:

Up the stairs. No problem. The funny thing is that the video somehow uploaded wrong, so it looks like she hits a time warp somewhere in there.


Her first attempts at going backwards:


A wonderful job at the park with lots of coaching. She actually thought about the entire process and did it on her own. Rocky is not just being super paranoid by the way, we were up pretty high off the ground:


And all the hard work is paying off. Here she is this morning going down the stairs. {Disclaimer: Rocky dressed Adelaide today. Hence the disarrayed hair and the poor matching. He did say she looked white trashy, like one of those girls that always has words across their butts. So he made Adelaide her own pair of white trash pants to top it off. }

Too Young for This Kinda Stuff

Adelaide has been in the habit of skipping her second nap for a few weeks now. She'll take a marathon nap in the morning (around 2.5 to 3 hours long). Then around 2:30 or 3pm, she'll seem to be a little tired so I'll get her ready for her afternoon nap. She'll usually rub her eyes and act like she is going to sleep, but for the past few weeks it hasn't really happened. So I told myself I wasn't going to stress about it anymore. If she sleeps, she sleeps. If she doesn't, she doesn't. What can I do other than give her the option?

Even if she doesn't sleep she seems to enjoy the down time playing alone in her crib. Sometimes she'll play so quietly I think she's asleep, but then find out later she wasn't. Like the other day. I put her down for her nap around 2:30. She didn't make a peep so I assumed she was asleep. About an hour and half later I went to peek in on her to see if she was in fact sleeping and she wasn't. She was sitting quietly in her crib playing with her stuff animals. The second thing I noticed was little specks of something all over her white sheet. Crap. Literally.

Adelaide had taken her pants off, which she has been so fond of doing for awhile now, and decided to explore the inside of her diaper. I don't know when she pooped, but I do know that I'm a little more concerned about what Adelaide's wearing when I put her down for a nap now. Her hand was covered with poop. Her leg was covered. Her sheet was smeared with it. There was poop everywhere. Seriously, I'm not ready for this.