new shoes

While on vacation Rigby only had one pair of sandals. they were cute white ones that we originally purchased for her to wear at Cole and Meghan's wedding. for school the girls have to wear closed toe shoes so she only gets to sport the sandals on the weekends. well they fell apart and were looking pretty shabby. daddy and i went thrifting one day when the girls were taking a nap and we found a great little kids consignment shop. something’s were ridiculously priced but some were perfect and that week everything for summer was 50% off. we found two pairs of white sandals for $2 each then rang up for $1 each, cant beat those prices. so when i got home i went though the bins of shoes we have for Adler to grow into. i found a 1/2 dozen pairs that i could pull out and resurrect for her and she was over the moon. NEW SHOES are a sweet spot for that girl.

milk please

Adler wants to be like her big sissy in so many ways right now. lately she sees Rigby get ceral with milk and has decided that is what she wants so i give her a small bowl with a splash of milk and she does well. yea most of the milk does end up on the tray or down her front but she is getting better all the time.

what ya doin?

Adler has entered the question phase. she will ask "what ya doin?" when you are doing anything. she does not really listen to the answer so she just continues to ask the question. I know Rigby went though this phase but she shorten it to just "doin?" so i guess this is just a normal curiosity. i guess this is the pre-cursor to the damn question "why?"

Awe Man

we can blame this one all on daddy. Adler has picked up a catch phrase. she says "awe,man." the cutest part is that 90% of the time it is a totally adequate response. No more juice till dinner...."awe, man." you have to wear closed toe shoes to school today..."awe,man." ha ha ha. it is said with total 'tude and is too cute.

ice cream and play

we woke up from naps and AGAIN it is pouring. we waited for it to die down and got in the car. we wanted ice cream and ended up at the chick-fil-a. they have an indoor playground with a 2-story slide. Rigby and Adler loved it. on a few of the steps the spread was too wide so we had to teach Rigby to help Adler up by grabbing her butt and helping her sling her legs up. it was not an authentic South Carolina adventure but we got ice cream and to play how is that a bad time.

tummy troubles

I am not sure what is perplexing poor Alder's tummy so much while were are here. We are pretty consistent with her diet as we are at home. Or let me re-phrase that she is still as picky here as she is at home. she is eating chicken nuggets, hotdogs, hamburgers, chips, cheese, crackers, squeezes, bananas, corn, nuts, juice, yogurt and asundry other items. nothing is really outside her wheelhouse but my, oh my has she filled up her diapers. not once but MULTIPLE times. so much so that we have had a few incidents where it has spilled out and down her leg and she has become a pro at the stand up shower and even asks for it when she knows she has really soiled herself. this normally does not affect her mood, but just the moment till she is all squeaky clean again. (see more vacation stories on Rigby's blog.)

rain, rain go away

so there is a local little carnival we thought we would hit one night after dinner. so we cleaned our plates we loaded in the car and drove the few blocks and parked. we all had exited the cars and gotten Adler strapped into the stroller and the skys opened and were in a torrential down pour. we got soaked. we all did our fast dance to get loaded back into the car as fast as we can. there we decided not to stay as even as the rain was lightening up the rides would all be wet. so off to ice cream. we get to a local joint that is an ice cream shack that you walk up to. well luckily they had a carport that we could hang out under as as soon as we ordered the skys opened up again. at this point it did not matter as we were pretty much all drenched. (want more vacation stories see Rigby's blog.)

car ride

so the trip from Ft Lauderdale to Myrtle Beach in the middle of the night is only about 10 hours. we started out after dinner on Friday. we watched a movie on the way down. we took daddy's truck and it was very comfy to ride in...horrible to try to sleep in. Adler was lucky as she has a 4 point harness so her head just dangled. Rigby has an over the shoulder seat belt so she wobbled back and forth and would fall asleep and wake herself up as her head would loll to one side or the other. we finally had to prop her head up with daddy's pillows. downside to the 10 hour drive is that is what we arrived here at 5am and could not check in till 2p. so we hung out at Walmart for a while then breakfast at a restaurant then tried some pool time but got rained out....then we sat in daddy's truck and watched movies. it was a LONG ASS day. daddy went some 36 hours with little to no sleep. ugh. (see Rigby's blog for more vacation stories.)

animal lover

Alder has an animal book. it has lots of pictures of animals and she obviously has most of them memorizes as i think that we probably "read" this book at least 4-5 times a day. some of her favorites are owl (always followed by "who, who",) panda, snake (followed by "sssssssss",) a dial (aka. crocodile,) and monkey. she gets super excited when she sees animals on tv or in books or magazines. She really did like the zoo both times we have went this summer. She does not say much, but you can see the white all the way around her eyes as she has them as wide open as possible taking it all in.

Criss-Cross

i think Adler is bringing back the Criss-Cross backward dress style. she has become very adamant about dressing herself in the mornings. i let her as it keeps her busy and out of my hair while i finish getting ready. yesterday she did finally after a lot of directions get her pants on (backwards) and i had to help with the shirt. by the time it was time to walk out the door i forgot the pants were on backwards. in my defense the only difference between the front and back is a tiny silk bow in the front. when she got home last night they were STILL on backwards so i guess no one noticed. today the shorts had pockets on the front and back so it was obvious that they were on backwards but she was fighting me tooth-n-nail that she was not going to have me correct them. so i made mental note to tell the teacher and at the next diaper change flip them around. she is definitely my little DIVA. Rigby still does not really care what she wears and would be super happy if i would dress her, but i make her do it on her own. Adler is already wanting to do it all on her own, and i am sure it wont be long before she is telling ME what she will and wont wear.

boo-boo

this weekend Adler was in the back of the shopping cart and some how got her finger pinched. at the time all we knew was she made the face of pain and cried. hugs, snuggles and distraction eventually calmed her down. later that day or the next we did notice that she was missing a pretty good chunk of skin on her finger. it did not bleed but it had made a definite ouchie. her finger was infected too all red and puffy. will be playing fine and then remember he ouchie and then she will have to point it out to daddy and get a kiss, to mommy and get a kiss and then to Rigby and get a kiss. then she can sort of move on but it wont be but 10 minutes before we go through this all over again. most the time this is followed by her showing us her tummy where she got bit last week. there is still one faint mark but she is still playing it up for all the sympathy she can get.

Adler, oh Adler

this morning she woke up at 3:30a. i tried to get her to cuddle in bed with me but she insisted on getting up. she finally relayed that she was hungry and wanted a squeeze and since she did not eat much dinner that made since. so she sucked down two squeezes in a matter of minutes. i tried to get her snuggle and go back to sleep in my arms but that was not happening. so i took her to bed. she finally fitfully got some sleep...i on the other hand was not so lucky. at 5:30a she woke up demanding juice. i gave up the fight and got out of bed and got her the juice and started watching the morning news. she started to play. after a while she brought me a scarf and we were playing and i am overly tired and quite frankly not in the mood and i let go. she plopped down on her but and let out an ear piecing scream. it was not a hard or violent fall so i was not sure what was wrong. then i surveyed the situations and saw debris on the couch by her. come to find out that her diaper was FULL of diarrhea and when she fell on her bottom that made it all "splat." it was a GIANT mess. i finally gave up and just took her in the shower with me as it was all the way up in her hair. the jammies kept most of it contained but there was splatter marks on the floor and as i said debris all up the side of the couch. she loved the shower and was having a great time. there was an vomiting incident in mommy/daddy's bed and another violent diarrhea explosion but i just don't have the strength to outline them right now. let's just say that girl can not have ANYTHING left in her system.

sugar smacks

Adler started fussing at about 12:30ish. I knew daddy had to get up at 1a and go to work so i was trying to keep her quiet. i got up and went out on the couch and we snuggled and watch the early morning news. when daddy did get up she was still awake and she just watch him walk around and go about his morning business and did nothing more than suck her thumb until daddy sat down to eat his obligatory bowl of cereal. then she made a move. she whipped off her little snuggle blanket and pushed off my lap. runs right over to daddy and starts thumping on his leg. he sweetly talks to her and lifts her up into the seat next to him and shares some of his cereal (which is the real reason she has come to visit him.) this morning he was having sugar smacks or the Aldi version of it. well daddy said she only had maybe 3 spoonfuls so in the long run it was not much. i guess it was enough though as daddy was leaving she was trying to pull out all her toys and play. i put the toys up and got her back up on my lap and snuggled a little longer. she was not going back to sleep so i talked her into getting into my bed. thinking that being in the dark and being still would improve her chances of going back to sleep. WRONG. she did not drift back off to sleep till almost 4a this morning. i bet she is a real peach at school today. ugh. daddy has to work the super early shift for the next two days. i hope Adler does not think she is getting up then too. as there WILL NOT be any more sugar smacks that is positive!!!!

sunnies

Adler loves her sunnies (sunglasses) she asks for them after we get in the car. I can only assume she gets this from me as i cant pull out of the driveway before i get my sunglasses on. my eyes are very sensitive to the light and i whine and complain if i don't have sunnies. so much so that i keep spare pairs in my car, daddies car, the house, the pool bag, or anywhere else i think i might need them. I have about a 1/2 dozen pairs for the girls too. i keep them mostly in the car, but always have my eyes open at the GW for more as they are kids and glasses break. I would hate for us to be out!!

new catch phrase

Adler has a new phrase that she says on repeat. "i see you." you can be literally standing right in front of her and she will say "I see you" but it is in the sweetest little voice you cant help but say "i see you." back to her. she gets a giant kick out of it.