I won!

After several back and forth email discussions with American Airlines over moving our flights due to the contagious viral baby, I finally received restitution for damages. ;-) Our cancellation fee ($300!) was waived and we were given two vouchers for future flights.

We went to yoga again this morning, as we did last weekend, at the Y. Ryan has been going almost every day since we joined. I can't say the same, but I have been really busy with work this week and classes starting again. My typical NCSU class started, my MBA classes started (statistics and org management), and my new Chatham course starts this coming week. I also held our third annual Innovation Retreat at work this past week, which is always both an invigorating and exhausting experience.


I thought it was time to take note of a few of Ade's new behaviors and routines...

• Ade spends some time nudies in the morning before getting dressed. She loves to cuddle me and snuggle and get wrapped in a blanket. I love that time in the morning. I sing a little song, "Mommy loves her baby!"
• At night, Ade has collected several lovies. It started with the duck and elephant that had to be in the crib. Then the owl, which she must hold while falling asleep (Hoo, hoo!). A small Elmo and Grover that used to stay in the car somehow transitioned to being part of bedtime as well. 
• I sing her a song based on a Sesame Street clip where Elmo wishes he had a dinosaur for a pet and adjust the words, "If Elmo loves his Adelaide, he would give her hugs and kisses" (she hugs and kisses me) "If Elmo loved his Adelaide, he would say it's time for nunny" (she responds nunny and snuggles up for bed).
• Ade likes to repeat the whole alphabet after you, and loves "counting" though mostly she repeats "Two, two, two.."
• We have thankfully expanded Adelaide cinematic collection to include Nemo, and her favorite part is with the sharks. She is obsessed with changing the DVD, and so alternates which of her movies she wants to watch. She asked for three different shows within 10 seconds yesterday ("Elmo, pawwww, fishies!" was a request for the Elmo potty DVD, the Wonder Pets Bengal tiger episode, and Nemo)
• She says Yes a lot more lately, and very enthusiastically.
• She knows about a million words.
• She likes to give fishie kisses.

Ryan and I are trying to plan out some of our travel in advance for this year, and I think so far it is looking something like this (but don't hold us to it!):

• January - Boston (all)
• Feb - Pgh (Steph and Ade for CMU recruiting)
• March - Boston (Ryan for fantasy baseball)
• May - Vegas??? (Ryan and Steph alone potentially for conference???)
• June - Orlando (Steph for conference, probably)
• July - Boston (all)
• August - Pgh (all for Tamara's wedding)
• Beach sometime
• Fall/Winter plans undecided

Okay, gonna sneak in a few other tasks during Ade's nap.