Where's the baby?

Since I got pregnant, I've started talking to Ada about babies. I even tried to get her to pat my belly and say baby. She never did do it, but the other day, my sister was playing with her and asked her where the baby was and Ada patted her own stomach... it was the cutest thing ever!

Oh, by the way...

I'm pregnant! Due in early June! And that's great news because it means that Jer doesn't have to have another surgery for a while!

The Terrible twos at one year old...

So I think that on her birthday Ada thought that she was turning two instead of one. She has been grumpy and whinny for no apparent reason. She doesn't look like she has any new teeth coming in... and it's almost like she's decided to be grumpy on purpose. For example... we have 20 some odd cabinets in our house that are unlocked and that she is free to empty and play in to her hearts content... but what does she choose to do? Try to pull open the 2 that I keep locked for her safety and scream that she can't get them open. And where she has never been a picky eater... she is now very choosy in what she will eat and in what order she will eat them... "I know I like green beans... but I won't eat them until you give me peas first, then the beans are okay..." All my friends say that this stage passed for their kids within a week if they just ignored the tantrums and gave them time outs for the inappropriate behavior... I sure hope so because I miss my Ada.

Multiply and replenish the Earth

We went to watch my cousin get sealed on Friday. The Sealer was talking about multiplying and replenishing the earth. Jer leaned over to me and whispered... I don't know about the multiplying, but we've done the division... there's one of her and two of us.

Walking!

Ada has been at that point where she stands by herself for a long time, but she's been too afraid to walk. Today during conference we were watching it with my brother's family. She watched her cousin Aubrey walking around and by the end of the night she was taking 4 or 5 steps at a time! It was so fun to watch her face as she got so excited while she moved all on her own! Love it!

Vocabulary

Ada's vocabulary is just exploding! I love to hear her babble and experiment with words and it's even greater when she gets them extremely wrong. She says Daddy, Mama, Dog, Ball, Baby as well as several animal sounds. One that she did today... she was sitting in the doorway playing with our dog on the back porch, besides offering the dog her binky she tried saying doggy instead of just dog... it came out as "pug-dy", and she kept saying over and over so proud of herself... until I pulled out the video camera, then she wouldn't say it anymore. Go figure.

In-Style

Ada's hair is "in-style". She never lost her long newborn hair like some babies do, but it has gotten longer and thicker... so what used to be the cute - fluffy - look is now the Emo-doo. It's really long in front of her eyes and she keeps getting food stuck in it when she feeds herself. I try to clip it to the side, but as soon as I put the clip in she shakes her head side to side and giggles... which means that I'm putting the clip in again about a minute later... oh well. I guess she just won't be a girlie girl. And I guess I should be cutting her bangs soon... maybe I'll do it while she's sleeping so that she stays still!

Clean floors... no longer

Ada has always been a good eater... she'll eat anything that you put in front of her with gusto and usually asks for more... in fact, we weaned her from a bottle without any fuss. But she had the flu last week and has been picky ever since... she throws most of her food on the floor and sorts her food into the piles of "will eat" and "won't eat". I don't mind a little pickiness... but what do you do about throwing food on the floor? She always manages to do it with the worst things right after I've mopped too. Jam, green beans, spaghetti, etc... I guess we'll keep working on this newest challenge.

Remembering

Just a couple of funny stories about Ada and her cousins. She has 8 cousins from both sides of the family that are about the same age, so she gets to play with babies a lot... which means that she wants all the same toys that the other kids want. Two stories about that...

At least three months ago, she was playing with her cousins Aubrey and Devin. They all wanted the same toys. Devin got them by taking them from the other person and throwing them out of everyone elses reach. Aubrey got them in her strong grasp and wouldn't let go of them. Ada got them by pretending to not want them. Aubrey was playing with the one that Ada wanted and wouldn't let go of it, so Ada picked up another toy and started playing with it... I thought, "Oh good, she's learning not to fight over the toys." Then when Ada was sure that Aubrey had seen the toy that she'd been playing with she carefully laid it to the one side. When Aubrey went for that toy... Ada took the opportunity to get the toy that they had originally been fighting over. My mom's comment was, "I don't want to play chess with her when she grows up."

The other story is less about a toy, and more about playing with cousin Grace's eyes. She had just decided that eyes were really neat and she wanted to touch or gouge out everyone's eyes. She was sitting next to her cousin Grace and saw that Grace had nice big eyes. She tried playing with them. Becca told her "No", so Ada stopped. Then she reached for Grace again... Becca told her "No", so she stopped. Ada started watching the TV and without looking away from it, she started reaching for Grace again... So I guess that just because she's not looking Grace's way means that she's not touching her eyes right?

We love Lucy

Our dog's name is Lucy... and Ada just loves Lucy. She will sit there for at least a half hour a day and try to pet Lucy's muzzle. My favorite is watching Ada feeding Lucy dog treats. I give it to Ada, Ada crawls over to the door and gives it to Lucy. The other day she started teasing Lucy with one though. She would hold it out for her then pull it back as soon as Lucy would sniff it... then she'd hold it out again and pull it back. That lasted until Lucy decided that she wanted the treat more than she wanted to play.

It has started...

I forgot that I used to clean my house... it used to be clean... but now I've got a one year old leaving cheerios in the office carpet, unfolding all the folded laundry, and deshelving all the books in her reach!