Amazing Adelaide

Adelaide is so adorable, and amazing. She learns something new every day, it seems. She can give you a high five, and now enjoys saying "CACA!" about everything. She gives sweet hugs and kisses to people, toys, and even remote controls. Anything she loves, basically. She also holds toys out for us to hug and kiss as well.

Adelaide loves shoes, and if she finds a pair of our shoes on the floor, she tries to put her foot into them. She loves being tickled, especially under the chin, armpits, and chubby thighs. She also loves me to spin her around. She is a little daredevil. She likes to try to lift heavy objects of any kind, especially if they are bigger than her. She pushes things round on the floor, and climbs in or on them if possible, such as baskets, step stools, and laundry bins.

Ade loves chapsticks and lipsticks. If I put any on, I have to also pretend to put it on her lips, too. She likes to brush my hair with her hairbrush, and sometimes daddy's too. She splashes in her bath, and kickie, kickie, kickies.

She gives the biggest, cheesiest grins, and long tight hugs after waking from naps or in the morning, and also when we pick her up from daycare. Randomly, she will plant the moistest, slobbery kiss right on your lips, during which she goes, "Mmmmmmm-mmmaaa!" - her way of making a kiss sound.

Ade is so good at putting the balls down the sink drain in her toy kitchen and then watching them come back out the bottom. She is also figuring out how to put the shapes into the right puzzles holes. You just show her something a few times, and she picks it up so quickly. I love teaching her new things and watching her figure it out.

Ryan loves the way she hands you a book to read, and then sits back, hands on knees, waiting eagerly.

Our precious nugget.