juice

Adler now calls her juice "app-y juice." so stinking cute!

tummy issues

Adler was up at 4AM today. i brought her to our bed and she snuggled for about 30-40 minutes before she decided she wanted a squeeze. so we got up. she sucked the squeezed down then started fussing. she wanted up and for me to walk to the laundry room but once we were there she did not want anything to eat or drink so i dont knwo what she wanted. after doing this about a dozen times she finally started to play with the food toys. then was screaming "tummy hurt." i asked her is she wanted medicine to help her poop. she answered yes, i bet she wont ever do that again. ha. so i gave her a suppository. i guess you can say it worked as she did poop, but they were hard and super smelly nuggets. i know she was working on them as she stood in the corner by the tv holding on to the cabinetry and doing deep knee bends and crying. i knew there was nothing else i could do to help her. poor thing i felt so bad for her. we did manage to eat some yogurt and some of a banana. so she ate a little more than in the past few days but not her "normal" amount.

worried

Adler has me worried. yesterday at breakfast i think she had one squeeze and 1/2 of a mini blueberry muffin. this is not like her she normally eats well. on the way to school she complained about a tummy ache. i did not really take this to heart as Rigby has been complaining about tummy problems for days. so i figured that Adler was just mimicking her sister. i did tell teacher about both not eating and the tummy ache complaint. then at dinner again she did not eat. we did, at almost bed time get her to eat one and 1/2 squeezes and some popcorn. again eating is her thing and usually don't have to encourage her so i am worried. she kept telling me her choo-choo hurt or that she pooped and needed medicine. so then i thought that maybe she had a urinary tract infection and one drop feels like 1000. i don't know. this morning i got a banana in her and a handful of cereal. she did have a giant hard poop before we left for school. so hopefully that is what was causing all the issues and she will be back to her hungry self tonight for dinner.

meanie

I don't know if it is her personality or if it is just her going though the terrible-two's. she has been hitting and pulling hair more lately. she does not get what she wants she just lashes out. so time-out has become very frequently visited by Miss Adler. this is not her trying to stand up for herself if Rigby takes a toy. she does this for everything these days. i tell her she cant have lemon-aid she tries to bite me. she sees Rigby on the rocking horse she walks up to her and grabs a giant handful of hair and yanks. UGH!!!!!!!! how fast can we get over this stage. luckily i have not gotten any letters home lately so she must be mildly better for them than us. (as i say this, i am sure i will probably get a write up tonight when i go to pick her up.) :(

getting inked

this weekend i gave the girls some pictures to color along with some markers. Daddy was in the house and i was doing chores so not watching their every move. i heard from the back of the house daddy yell at Adler "Nooooooo!!!!!" i come out to see that she had taken the markers and drawn all over her tummy. they were Crayola washable markers so i was not too crazy about it. they MOSTLY wash off unlike some of the other "washable" markers we have. because daddy yelled at her, startling her more than anything, she was crying but i could not pass up the moment and i got the camera out and took pictures of the aftermath. (posted pictures soon)

pretty piggies

As usual Alder and i were up at the butt crack of dawn. I did not get around to my almost weekly mani/pedi this weekend so i got out some polish to try to do on my lunch hour at work. Adler saw me digging though my Tupperware full of polished and started keening. so i plopped her tush in the high chair and smacked on a coat of my fastest drying polish then gave her some breakfast and turned on Mickey Mouse to try to get her to sit still till they were dry. of course they are no where near perfect, it is hard to paint a moving target. she loved it and wanted her fingers painted too but since she is still an avid thumb sucker that was a no-go.

come along

Adler is a much clearer speaker than Rigby was at her age. Most the time you can understand what she wants especially when you use your context clues. sometimes you are still baffled on what she is trying to communicate. even when you do understand what she is saying if you are not acting as fast as she wants you too she now will grab your finger and "lead" you to what she wants. the other day she was saying what sounded like "egg" I had no idea what she wanted but she promptly grabbed my hand and drug me to the refrigerator and smacked it a couple times for me to open it. when I did she then grabbed for the lemonade and again was shouting "egg." realization dawned and she got her glass of lemonade.

drama QUEEN

the other night i put Adler in bed as it was time and she was crying. I thought i could give her a bit and read Rigby her storybooks then if she was still crying i would go back and get her to snuggle for a bit on the couch. well this plan failed miserably. I was trying to read to Rigby and i could hear Adler get louder and louder and more frantic. then i started to yell at Rigby to sit still and pay attention so i could read faster and get to Adler. Not Rigby's fault at all but she got an ear full. then daddy opened Adler's door to see that in the time it took her to get REALLY worked up she had made herself sick. she vomited all over the bed and floor. then when i picked her up she got sick two more times on the floor before i could get her to the bathroom sink where she got sick a few more times. i think once she got to that point her stomach had decided it was going to flip inside out even if she was willing to calm down. by now Rigby is all up in arms because i had to ditch her and the story books to go clean up the mess. 1st clean up Adler and sit her on the couch and daddy tried to get her to eat a squeeze to put something in her belly so she would not be up all night due to hunger. then clean floor, bathroom, carpet, lastly was the bed. well OMG i am normally very good when i clean poop or upchuck but this was extra pungent and had me gagging the whole time. so by now there are NO happy campers in our house. boo hoo!!! Adler did go to bed smoothly after everything was cleaned, replaced, and febreezed. not a peep out of her. daddy when to bed. i was still doing laundry and felt like that stench had permeated my pores/nose/something as i could not kick it. gag!! by now Rigby is up knocking on her door begging me to sleep with her. so i gave in and crawled in bed with her. she was out in a matter of minutes i thought about going bake to my bed...but i did not want her waking up and freaking out why i was not there. that would just wake me up anyhow so better to stay where i was. THESE GIRLS!!!!!!!!!

nightmares?!?!?!?!

This morning at about 3a Adler started fussing. so i got up and picked her up then she very clearly was shouting at me "shoes, SHOES!!" so think i asked if she wanted shoes and she just stuck her thumb in her mouth and shook her head at me. then i took her out and sat on the couch holding her and then she started whaling and between crying would cry out "shoes." i was not about to go and get a pair and try to put them on her...as she is very opinionated and i am sure they would have been the wrong pair and that could have in-sighted more hysterics. so i just held her and talked with her. she finally calmed down but did not go back to sleep. we got to see daddy get up and have breakfast then she decided she wanted to snuggle with him for awhile. i had to pry her out of his arms when it was time to put on his shoes. she would not go back to her bed. but i was able to convince her to come to bed with me. again she did not go right back to sleep she laid there and flipped and flopped for awhile before i could hear her breathing become heavier.

here i come daddy

this weekend we bought a bunch of ferns to put around the trees in the front of the house. the grass just does not want to take and daddy is tired of mowing around the trees. so plants it is! i love the look. we went out early Sunday morning when the traffic was low but since we were right there by the road one or the other of us was normally with the girls. Rigby helped dig a LITTLE bit and when the ferns were all in it was time to water. daddy gave Rigby two big buckets for her to fill up. Alder then got a little gallon ice cream container to fill up and help water. i was sitting on my rump in the driveway picking out the weeds of the round-a-bout. Adler would get an inch or so in her bucket then walk as quickly as she could to the front where daddy was to water the new plants. the whole time she would shout out "here i come, daddy." it was the cutest thing. she would say it over and over. then daddy would help her dump what she had not sloshed out on her feet onto the plants and send her back to Rigby to get more water. she was so cute but after a few of these trips i guess the bucket was getting heavy as she was no longer holding it out in front of her as she scurried. now the ice cream pail handle was slung over her shoulder like a pocketbook as she trudged along but still kept up the announcement "here i come, daddy."

ingenious

i think Adler is completely ingenious. you are all aware of Adler's shoe obsession by now. this past weekend she wanted to wear a pair of her sisters crocs. these shoes are still about 2 sizes to big for Rigby so on Adler they are like wearing my shoes (which she does.) well this particular pair were mary janes that have the strap fit to go across the top of your foot. well my friend Katie was over and we were hanging out and chatting it up and i just looked down to realize what exactly Adler had done. she had taken those mary janes and pushed the strap back behind her heel to make them 'fit' her. i thought this was amazing for a 1 1/2 year old to figure out. no one else seemed as amazed as myself but whatever, i was very proud of my little baby to figure out a fix so she could get what she wanted....to wear sissy shoes.

homeless lady

Adler has created a new game she likes to play by herself. i call it homeless lady. she gets her shopping cart and fills it up with every toy, bag, ball, and pocketbook she can get her hands on. then she just likes to push it around the house. if the cart falls over and empties its contents she cries and whines till i come and help her very tediously repack/pile all her toys back in and she wheels them around some more till the next catastrophe. it makes her happy and me laugh.

best part of waking up

the best part of waking up the last few days is that Miss Alder is letting me bring her to my bed. she is still waking up WAY TOO EARLY. she gets up somewhere between 4:30a and 5:30a. i get to bring her to bed and we snuggle sometimes she falls back asleep and sometimes we just lay there and cuddle and spend time one on one. then when it is time to move and get up we tickle or poke bellies and start the day off laughing and giggling.

sneaky

this has happen two times now...i am in the shower lathering up and put my head back to rinse out the suds and when i look back down there is Adler. standing in the shower with me fully clothed stomping in the water. i then try to block as much water as i can to get her out of the shower or at least sit on the ledge where i can get her on the other side of the shower curtain so she is not a complete sopping mess. she is a sneaky one.

zoo

Adler loves the animals at the zoo as long as they are not going to touch her. when it got to be our turn to feed the giraffe she was very content with daddy holding her close, but did not want to hold the kale so that the giraffe would touch her. with as much bravado and moxie this girl has it always kills me when you see her flinch at things like petting an animal. Yet another way her and her sister differ. Rigby can not wait to get her hands on the animals.

R-I-G-B-Y

We have been practicing with Rigby a lot on how to spell her name. So we sing R-I-G-B-Y (to the tune of B-I-N-G-O.) well last night i heard Adler spelling Rigby out very clearly. obviously she does not know what she is spelling but i was amazed!!!

mother of the year - nominee

Last night i put Adler to bed at her usual time (7:30/8pm-ish.) she gave out kisses and waved good-bye (aka. good night.) i laid her down and about 15-20 minutes later she started fussing. i though it was because she heard us all talking and the TV on. as this has happen before, she really did not want to leave and go to bed early. so i let her fuss it out and hope she would go to sleep. it was only about a 2 minute fuss and that is nothing for her. i had a headache so i went on to bed soon after she went back to sleep. then she started crying and fussing at 11p. so she had only been down about 3 hours and this is unlike her. so i gave her 2-3 mins to see if she would go back to sleep. although she was only halfheartedly putting up a fuss i went to check on her. we currently don't have a night light in her room and there was no light from the window so i stuck my hand in her crib to see if she just needed the blankies pulled up over her tush. well i touched a pile of wet blankets and recoiled in fear. i flipped on the hallway light to see what was going on. she had gotten sick in her crib (cold to touch - so must have happen after i 1st laid her down.) most of it was on her blankets and her hair. i did a quick wash job of her hair and switched out all her linens. i snuggled with her for awhile before she went back to sleep. i was no longer tired as i felt like the WORST MOM EVER because i did not check on her before going to bed and made her sleep in a pile of her own vomit for almost 3 hours. UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! then she was up at 3:30a i am sure this was because she was starving as she had no food left in her tummy. so i got up and she had 2 squeezes and some juice and then i was able to convince her to come to bed with me. it took her awhile to get snuggled in then again i had a hard time getting to sleep. next thing you know it is almost 7am and we should already be done with breakfast and dressed for the day and we are all still snoozing. AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1,2,3

Alder can (with help) count to 10.  she normally gets stuck on the number 3 and 8 and just keeps repeating them until someone 'unsticks' her.