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Happy Halloween!! Adler is going to be a kitty cat this year. Mam-maw sent her a costume that fits so we just went with it as the girls could not be part of our VooDoo theme this year. So they got to do a trial run with costume and make up at our Halloween party last weekend. Make up was by far the best part of the whole event they loved it that i put real make up on them. we snapped a few pics but i will get more tonight, promise.

may i ask you a question?

Adler has learned the art of asking a question. so now everything she says ends with her voice going up, like a question. it could be anything she says...it is just kind of funny and slightly annoying at the end of the day when EVERYTHING you have heard that day is in question form.

like sissy

today to go out and run our errands Rigby wore her sequin pumpkins shirt and jean shorts. Well there was no way i was going to be able to dress Adler differently. I was forced to find Adler's sequin pumpkin shirt and jean shorts. we topped both girls off with high pony tails with orange bows. Everyone we saw today complemented them on their outfits/bows. The teachers at the day care, the workers at the post office, total strangers stopped me to tell me just how CUTE they were. I graciously accepted the compliment, but also clarified that i was not the one making them matchy-matchy that was of their own doing.

uh oh

Adler's recent catch phrase "I gonna spank u ass." i am pretty sure she heard daddy say it to her or Rigby. No matter how hard i try to get her to substitute a different word: butt, biscuit, tush, tuckuass, ect... she still uses ASS!

scott annual party

there is always that one guy....well we had one. he showed up with a creepy-as-hell mask. it looked kind of like his skin was flayed off. well this freaked Adler OUT. she was pretty well quite and reserved the whole time and hiding in a corner or wanting to be held by someone the whole time.

pee pee treat

so a few weeks ago Mam-maw sent us a bunch of old school training pants. so we have been trying them out. so far i would say that we have had mostly fails but a few intermittent successes. last night there were two pee pees on the potty and one right after nap today. Pee pee on the potty equals a pee pee treat (currently a gummy.) that is something that Adler is REALLY jazzed about so i know that spurs her on. part of the thing that makes it so exciting i think is that she gets a treat and Rigby does not. hey, whatever works at this point. keep your fingers crossed that this takes hold soon. i am not really trying to potty train her, she is more excited about the idea of the new panties than actually going potty so we are just playing by ear and taking our time. hell, i am home and have nothing else pressing going on.

over here

the girls knew we were going to the pumpkin patch specifically to take pictures in their Halloween dresses. So we get there and plop them down in some wet hay and they hold pumpkins but for the life of them they smile and look at everything BUT the camera. UGH!!!!!!!!!!

beach

We met up with some friends yesterday for a cook out on the beach. it was an amazing day, sun shining, slight breeze, and warm water. unlike Myrtle Beach, the last time the girls were at the ocean/beach there is only a foot or two before there is a drop off and the water gets waist to chest deep on mommy. both girls held on to their rings and kick, kick, kicked and did a great job listening when we were in the water.

helping a sister out

Adler has always has a thing for remotes. so much so when she was younger that we got one of our old remotes out and gave it to her as a play remote. that does not deter her picking up and pushing the buttons on the REAL remotes though. i know she does not know what she is doing yet, but this morning she managed a good trick. i was watching the channel six news, more like it was on and i was listening to it from the kitchen. just about the time Rigby was getting up asking about the house smelling like muffins Adler got the remote and some how changed the channel to the local PBS station which has the morning cartoons. the funniest part is that Adler likes the remote, but still could pretty much careless about the television. we might get her to watch 2 minutes of Mickey Mouse but that would be the max. Rigby who loves tv and could sit and watch it ALL-DAY-LONG does not touch the remote. she asks permission and waits for mommy or daddy to change the program/movie for her.

daddy's girl

since we have been spending time at home Adler has really morphed into a daddy's girl. she wants him to do everything put ketchup on her plate, unbuckle her seat belt, it could be just about anything. mommy still gets the good stuff though that morning time snuggle, the boo-boo cries, and best the night time cuddle while falling asleep.

push me

Adler always wants to be part of the action. when you put her in the high chair and she is not in the position she wants she starts to change "push me, push me." normally she wants to be closer to mommy, but lately she has gotten an obsession with daddy. either way she will let you know don't worry.

make me laugh

this just happened...i am sitting at the dinning room table looking at the computer. Adler is under the table playing with her baby dolls, books and silly bands. Rigby is in her room with almost EVERY other toy we own out on the floor. Alder is playing quietly and talking to herself and the baby dolls. then we hear Rigby yell from her room "Adler come here." Alder shouts back "Rigby are you pooping?" i start CRACKING UP!!!!! Adler slowly gets up and wonders back to Rigby's room and they start randomly chattering at each other.

books

Adler is to the stage she really likes books. she does not really have the attention span to listen to a whole book. she likes looking at the pictures and dragging them out. OMG. i remember this stage with Rigby. every night i would come home and every single book we owned would be on the floor. since i am here and watch Adler closer than daddy did with Rigby we don't get every book out--all the time. sometimes mommy is busy and next thing you know there are 30 books to pick up clean up. oh well. i like keeping books accessible so they will hopefully enjoy a love affair with books i never had until must later in life.

sit, sit up

Adler has taken to playing with dollies and stuffed animals. we have TONS of these so she has a huge audience. the best is when she is off playing by herself with the dolls/animals and some are better than others at sitting. she really gets mad a the animals that don't sit up straight or slump. she will start to yell at them to "sit, sit up!!"

taste of her own medicine

Rigby and Adler were fighting yesterday. this in itself is not a big deal. it happens ALL TIME. what was different this time was Adler and Rigby were both crying. I went in to see what was going on. Adler was blubbering and i did not understand her. I did understand Rigby complaining that Adler was knocking down her bridge/tower and pinching her. so i separated them and shut the door so Rigby was left in her room by herself to play blocks. by now Adler had calmed down a little bit and climbed up on daddy's lap for some comfort. now we could tell she was saying..."Rigby bite." sure enough pulled down her pants and on her upper thigh there was a full bite mark. Now this means that Rigby got a talking too and time out. Since Alder is normally the biter it is kind of a taste of her own medicine and she did NOT like it. hopefully we get over this ASAP!!

paint and polish

so i got a wild hair and offered to paint nails today. mostlly cause i needed to do mine before they start to break and peel. so today i let the girls pick out their paint colors. Rigby got red fingers and toes. Adler got teal green toes. Adler still does not get fingers painted because she still sucks her thumb/fingers. I got a coat of gold to fancy up the digits and a light color so when it does start flaking off hopefully it wont be so noticable.

doctor visit

so took Adler to the doctor yesterday. she has had an on going cough and snotty nose for WEEKS now. doctor thought that it might be sinus/allergy related. at that time he gave daddy a script first suggested a shot of benadryl before bed. we did the benadryl shot for awhile and it did not seem to have any affect. then we filled the script and completed it, still Adler had the same symptoms. she did show signs of hand/foot/mouth with dozens of mouth lesions at one time but i knew that did not have thing to do with the cough and the post-nasal drip that she had/has. this time she got a kiddy z-pac. we started with a double dose yesterday and another single dose this morning. i think she was less snotty and coughing. not better but maybe started in that direction.