kissy face

Adler is learning to master the kiss. she knows to move in when you ask for a kiss, only downside is she has not mastered how to close her mouth. so it is giant slobbery mess. still some of the best kisses ever.

Merry Christmas

Adler got a killing in the gift department. she got enough weebles and little people to start her own town. She has a barn and a shop/slide/house, there is a bus, van, tricycle, and i am not sure what else there is so many. she loves them and so does her big sister. she got tons of clothes (to grow into.) Again she is being groomed young to be a Pistons fan. thank you to everyone who sent gifts or money we appreciate all of it.

bad mommy

i thought we had given up night time bottles. so i let us run out of formula and i had finished off all the frozen breast milk. well we think Adler is cutting molars so she was up at 5A screaming and crying. i gave her a shot of Tylenol but i am sure that she just wanted a ba-ba (bottle) to help her get back to sleep. well that was not happening. I tried juice, a squeeze, skim milk, nothing was working. ugh. i will be making the run to buy another container of formula today. knowing my luck she will drink one or 2 bottles out of it and never want it again.

Scarface

yesterday we were playing at grandma and poppa's condo after a bowl of ice cream and Adler fell on the dvd player's shelf. it originally looked like she hit her head and possibly her back. whatever it was we all saw it happen and knew it was going to hurt. there was the silent scream, that then unleashes the deafening whaling scream. i instantly picked her up and started to snuggle and administer hugs and kisses. I looked for red marks on her back and head and could not seem to find any. we all saw her hit and the scream/cry was a big one so i was sure it had to have left a mark. after another minute or so we all could see that there were long red marks on her face, two of them. luckily they were not cuts only marks, today you can still see them although they have faded. i am sure they will turn into at least a yellow/green bruise in the next day or so. until then she does look a little like Scarface with these red marks on her face. thank GOD these are only temporary.

grandma and poppa

i was not surprised that Adler did not remember grandma and poppa although she had just seen them in August at uncle Cole and aunt Meghan's wedding. she is just now one, i mean really how much do they remember so young. she was very leery about them and only wanted mommy for most the night. but after a belly full of food, some Tylenol (cutting a tooth, and a bath she came around especially to poppa as he was sitting on the floor playing blocks with her and sissy. that is the easiest way to get to be friends with Adler is get down on her level, sit on the floor, and play. i think she gets that from daycare as that is how they spend half of their day.

pretty in pink

I do it more often than i realize. i get all three of us girls dressed then actually "see" that we are all coordinating. normally i lay our clothes out the night before, but last night i was lazy so this morning i went with the grab-n-go method. I did not realize till i was slipping on my shoes and rounding up the girls to hustle out to the car that we were all dressed in pink today. i have on a pink sweater, Rigby is wearing pink pants, and Adler is sporting a pink flower top and pink pants. I am sure that when people see us out as a family they think that i picked out the match-matchy clothes on purpose and that i actually like that look. the truth is it accidental and i am too lazy to change anyone's clothes including mine once we are dressed.

world of hurt

we are going to be in world of hurt when Adler out grows her swing. that is how/where she falls asleep every night. she is getting quite big and starting to put up a fight when it is time to latch her in. normally it is only 2-3 minutes of fussing if that and she is out cold. we let her sleep in the swing for awhile before transferring to her bed to sleep the rest of the night.

new chairs

Adler has always hated the car seat. Recently she has started putting up a real fight when i would pick her up from school. She would move, kick, scream and basically try everything to get out of the chair. so we made the switch this weekend. daddy recently found two big girl car seats, where else Craig's list. these new seats were for Rigby and Adler would get the seat that Rigby currently had. Obviously the straps and settings all had to be moved back to the tiniest setting. Adler now faces forward and has yet to put up a fuss to get in the chair.

pointer finger

Adler has mommy and daddy wrapped around her pointer finger. she has figured out if she points to things she normally gets what she wants. points to juice or a banana or a toy and mommy or daddy graciously hand it over to her. God forbid she does not get what she wants watch the waterworks go full blast!

lil monkey

Adler loves bananas. i think she gets them at school. recently it has gotten so bad that is she sees a bunch of bananas on the counter she will point and start chattering until you give her one. Sometimes she will eat two whole, LARGE bananas along with other food. i love that she asks for fruit and she loves bananas so much better than crying for a cookie.

Santa

i dressed Adler in the same outfit that Rigby wore to meet Santa the first time. It is so big that she might be able to wear it again next year. ha. so Adler did excellent in the store and waiting in line to see Santa. Daddy was to place the girls on Santa's lap and i was snapping away. daddy said she did well up until he walked away and just left her with this strange man. then the screaming and crying started and that is the picture we have to commemorate her 1st visit to see the big man. Rigby on the other hand has a very weird look on her face. it is half elation and half scared out of her mind.

fat lip

Saturday after breakfast Adler and Rigby were playing in the laundry room. it is odd but they spend a lot of time there. we had someone give us some very plush bathroom carpets that i was using back there. so i think it was a very comfy spot. plus there is the access to SHOES which Adler loves. i have since moved the carpets as they were not made for high traffic and they were falling apart. all of that is really besides the point. so they were playing and i was in and out of the kitchen so i knew where they were and that they were playing but i don't know what exactly happened but i heard a huge scream. at this point Adler had blood all over her mouth and Rigby had a guilty look on her face. So i started trying to calm Adler down and screaming at Rigby to try to find out what happened and if she had done this to her sister. i don't know what happened but Adler was over in in less than a minute. a while later i noticed that she had a giant fat lip. So with the blood that she did loose she must have completely broken the skin and had a big hematoma on her lip. thankfully Santa pictures are taken from a distance. today, Monday, it is almost all gone and cant really tell that it was huge growth on her lip just a few days ago.

wavin' at daddy

Adler goes crazy like a teeny bopper at a Justin Beiber concert when she sees daddy on the back porch. if she sees or hears the back door she starts looking and once she finds daddy she runs to the glass door, waving her arms/hands and screeching "da, da."

tea time

a while ago we found a princess tea set at the GW. We got it for Rigby and she played with it often. well it has now moved to one of Adler's favorite toys. she likes to hold the cups and the spoons. she has drug them to every room in the house and left bits and pieces behind. i have picked up the tea set probably 12 dozen times this past holiday weekend. i am glad she found something she likes, but i am fairly confident we no longer have a full tea set.

rise-n-shine

this whole long 4 day weekend was excellent except for the fact that some how Adler got her internal clock out of joint and decided everyday needed to begin at 5:30A. omg!!! that is an hour before our normal school day starts. she would wake up and scream and cry not just a little fuss. she needed food, bottle, and a panty changed. so we would take care of this and then normally just want to be held and played with. she had no need to get down on the floor or play with toys. sitting on mommy's lap was more than enough fun for her. then normally just as she was starting to fall back asleep is when Rigby would get up so Adler had a whole new breath of fresh air that kept her going strong till nap time. this morning the day started at 4:30a, but i could not take it so i fed and changed her and put her back in her bed to fuss it out for a good 10+ minutes before she fell asleep so mommy could try to get a few more winks.

gobble, gobble

Adler is picky and then again she is not. she goes though bouts of loving certain foods like mandarin oranges where she wants them at every meal. then weeks on end that she just turns her nose up at them. right now she LOVES, LOVES, LOVES squeezes. she eats at least 2 a day and sometimes as many at 6 depending on what we are doing. we have fruit, vegetable, and yogurt ones. then she surprised me and ate almost everything we had for thanksgiving. turkey would have been her least favorite, noodles or mashed potatoes would be at the top of the list.