Here's what the darling Adeline Joy is up to now.
- She's finally starting to say words. She can say hop, hot (she is VERY good at this one), help (hep), dog (gog), hotdog (gog-gog), beep, brrrmm, mom, dad, ba-ba (for bottle), bye, ba-bye, up, shhhhh (for when she's sneaking up on someone), and she also says shhhh for when tries to mimic the sleeping sound that has a snort followed by the shhhh sound. She's doing her best to mimic us when we say, "Addie, say _____." It's coming, it's coming.
- Along with words she loves to do animal sounds. She does dog (both the sound and panting like a dog), cat, elephant, tiger/bear/lion, cow, horse, owl. It's hard to make out what animal sound she's making, but when we ask her to make the sound . . . she makes a sound. Dog is, by far, our favorite because we get the panting and it's sooooo cute/fun.
- Even though she is not speaking, she understands almost everything we say or ask her to do. The other day I was talking to Beau and in conversation I mentioned sunscreen. Adeline was just playing around us, but as soon as she heard me talk about sunscreen she when right to the swim bag, pulled out some sunscreen, and brought it to me.
- She is TOTALLY climbing. She'll climb on anything that can be climbed. Her favorite climb right now is to climb on the bar stools and then up on the counter. Oh, she's a stinker!
- She loves to empty out bags and containers. Often times when I'm doing my makeup I will give her a bag full of stuff to explore and empty onto the bathroom floor. It keeps her busy for several minutes.
- She can officially go to the nursery at church. She DID NOT like being left in there without her mom or dad. So, mom stayed with her for one hour and then dad stayed with her for the second hour. She had tons of fun playing with the toys and the kids . . . so long as mom or dad was in eyesight.
- She's loving babies right now. She loves to hold and play with baby dolls. She also loves to admire and stare at real babies. She gets very excited when a baby is brought into a room.
- She's a dancer. She's always been a dancer, but the better she is able to get around, the more moves she drums up. This girl starts bouncing whenever music starts . . . on a TV commercial, a ringtone on a phone, radio, etc.
- She just cut three of her four eye teeth. This girl pretty much has all her teeth but the one eye tooth.
- She is a pretty good eater. However, she still eats what she wants to eat and spits out what she doesn't. Her favorite foods are anything protein and dessert. She'll eat meat like it's going out of style. She doesn't care much for carbs like bread and stuff (although she does love potatoes). And then, she loves anything for dessert. That being said, she is not a fan of yogurt-like or whipping cream-like textures. She'll eat yogurt if I freeze it (so I freeze go-gurts and she'll eat those like a champ).
- I started pulling her away from her binkie. With her speech starting to come, I really don't want the binkie to hinder her ability to speak correctly. Plus, we don't want to mess up her pretty teeth. So, she gets her binkie when she's sleeping and that's it. Baby steps, right?
- She loves to read books now. We can get through an entire book and even go back for another or two. Hooray!
- She's getting fast on her feet. This girl can run and it's super cute!
- She's starting her little independent phase and wanting to do things by herself. She wants to hold her drinks by herself, feed herself with her spoon/fork, etc. She usually does relatively well with all of this, but we have to watch her close otherwise we end up with big, fat messes.
- She had an ear infection a month ago.
- She's moved to just taking one nap each day on most days. Every so many days, she still needs two, but she can usually get away with one long afternoon nap.
- She loves swimming. I suppose this is not a huge surprise since she loves her baths. If I ask her if she wants to go "swim-swim" she gets very excited and runs to grab her swimsuit.
- She loves to hug my legs. She'll hug Beau's legs too when he's around. I love it. I could be doing the dishes and she'll just run up and hug my legs.
- She loves to copy her big sister. If Evie is doing something, Addie must be doing it too. This is true for most things. If Evie is drinking juice, Addie want her juice in a similar cup. If Evie is twirling around, Addie will twirl around. If Evie sits in my lap, Addie wants to sit in my lap. You get the idea.
- She tries to hop. She'll make a jumping motion and say, "hop" while she does it. Her feet don't quite leave the floor, but she's getting closer.
- She loves to accessorize. She's always trying to grab bows and headbands and then wants to place them in her hair. When she can't quite figure that out, she hands them to me to put in her hair.
