Because I just have to write it down or else I'll forget, and I don't want to forget. Tonight Clayton, Ady, and I were riding in the car. I saw a billboard ad for a ski and snowboard sale. Ady wanted to know if she could go. I told her no, mommy and daddy don't need any new gear, and we're either going to rent her gear or find it cheap else where. She asked what stuff, so I very excitedly told her that daddy was going to teach her how to ski this year.
Ady: "on the water?"
Me: (not entirely sure how she even knows about water skiing) "no baby, not water skiing, daddy's going to teach you how to ski on the snow. "
Ady: "snow skiing is on water. "
Me: (after a couple minutes of stunned silence and a little laughter) "you're right baby, snow skiing is on the water."
It's amazing the things she picks up on and remembers. And apparently the things she honestly comprehends.
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Sunday, February 2, 2014
Way Too Much to Catch Up On
Holy Moly, Ady is 3 short months away from being 2! I can't even believe it. I didn't even check when the last time I blogged was, but I'm sure it has been quite some time. I don't even know where to begin to update the list of new "kid tricks" she does. I can tell you that she is absolutely the cutest girl you will ever meet. She's not always dressed the best (there's a plus and a negative side to getting hand-me-downs), her hair is often a mess (I cut her bangs, and they don't always hang right- I promise, they're straighter than you might think), and she's bound to have food or drool on her at least half of the time you see her; but the way she talks and what she says, the way she smiles and giggles at you, and the way she plays and gets excited, that's why she's the cutest girl every.
Talking. She talks up a storm. And it's not babbling nonsense. She's quite intelligent with her language. She tells me exactly what she needs or wants, she will take stories we've ready anywhere between 1-100 times and will read it to me (she gets most of the words she attempts right when she "reads" the books), she'll warn herself (or maybe me) to be careful when she's doing something that might make her fall down, she asks her friends to play (and admittedly, she kind of bosses them around sometimes), and she sings :o) She's tunes in to conversations that other people are having and will chime in, just so you know she's listening. She's also quite observant of other people and will let you know when someone needs help (that can get a little awkward in public when she points out the crying child you're trying to politely ignore by saying, "the boy is sad."
Signing. We like to watch the Signing Time videos. Sometimes I wonder if she's really learning anything from them because when I try to get her to practice the signs they are doing on the show, she just sits and stares and ignores me; but then randomly a few days later, when we see something in real life that we saw on the show, she'll say and sign it. It's fun.
Colors. At first Ady knew the signs for colors better than she knew her colors. Meaning, I would point to a picture of something and ask what color it was and she wouldn't know, but then I'd sign the color, and then she would say the correct color. Now she knows her colors pretty well. Today during lunch she was reading a book, the title is "Opposites" and every letter is a different color. She took her fork and pointed to each color and told me what color it was. She got them all correct :o) With any of her "tricks," the key is to let her show you that she knows, because if you ask, there's 50/50 chance she'll answer.
Numbers. Over Christmas break I tried potty training Adelyn (it didn't work, just FYI). Every 15 minutes we would go to the bathroom and Ady would sit on the potty. Sometimes she would sit there just fine, and other times she would want to get off immediately. When she wanted to get off too soon, I'd tell her she had to sit there for 20 seconds, and I'd count for her. It didn't take too long, and she was counting with me. She had a handle on 1, 2, 3 but then it would vary what came next and how high she went. After a week or two, she was pretty good going to "ten." It sounded like this, "one, two, three, four, six, seven, eight, nine, kiss." (Yes, five is missing) Well, sometimes it ended in "kiss" other times it ended in a mumble. After Christmas break she had a lot more practice counting when I told her that she had to share her toys with Aleigha (the girl I do a babysitting swap with) and that Aleigha could play with her toys for 10 seconds. Sometimes she made it to 10 and got the toy back, but mostly she made it to 7 and had found something else to play with by then. Lately she's just started counting in the middle of playing. Not prompted by me. She just starts counting. Today she made it to 13 all by herself (she counted 5 and she said 10). I'm pretty impressed with her :o)
Princesses. Obviously I love Disneyland and most things Disney, Clayton claims it's my fault how obsessed he's become with Disneyland now, so of course our daughter is intrigued with Disney characters as well. For Christmas Adelyn (and I- I'll be honest) got an interactive Fisher Price Disney castle. When you put a princess in the middle of the castle, she'll tell you her name, sing you her song, and say a few other lines. The castle taught Ady all the princess' names so when we let her know she was going to Disneyland, she let us know all the princesses she wanted to see: "See Tiana. See Snow White. See Cinderella. See 'Roura." etc. Plus, the castle (and Daddy's always listening to the Disney station on Pandora) taught Adelyn the princess' songs. My favorite memory of our last trip to Disneyland was when we went and checked out the lobby of the California Adventure Hotel (whatever that one's called) and there was a man playing the piano. We were walking through and Ady says "Elsa" and sure enough, the pianist was playing "Let it Go" from Frozen. Then we walked into a store to look around, the second we walked out Ady says, "Little Mermaid" it took me a second or two to realize that the pianist was now playing "Part of Your World." But far better than her recognizing the princesses that sing each song (although that is pretty good) is that she sings the songs too. Obviously she needs a little help, but when I'm singing and stop, she's right there to fill in the missing word (well, when she's in the mood to sing for you). It all started with "Ursula" meaning "Poor Unfortunate Souls" she also sings "Part of Your World" "Cruella Devil" "Do You Want to Build a Snowman" the 7am song from Tangled "Winnie the Pooh" and others that I can't think of right now.
Don't worry, it's not just Disney characters and songs she knows. She'll sings "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam" "I Love to See the Temple" "Wheels on the Bus" "Patty Cake" and more. Princesses aren't the only people she knows, she knows who Jesus is and that we go to church to learn about Him, and that we should think about Him during sacrament (sometimes she lets everyone else know they should be thinking about him too when she yells out his name while the bread and water are being passed around). I show her pictures of her family (mostly my side) and she knows who her family is. She loves the Cat in the Hat and the Little Einsteins (aka Rocket). And there's Minnie and Mickey and that whole gang, but that's going back to Disney people.
Movement. She's been walking since the day before her first birthday, but now she has so many more ways to move around. She jumps places more than she walks or runs- there was even a point where I wondered if one leg was shorten than the other because it looked like she was hobbling, but it was just her jumping/leaping forward. She'll still crawl, when she's playing with Aleigha or when she's being silly or when she's going through a tunnel- one of her favorite activities as of lately. She loves to spin and run ovals (she does circles, but she calls them ovals). She goes up and down stairs upright now. She's careful enough that she'll only walk down stairs when Mommy is right there to watch her, otherwise she'll hold my hand and walk or sit on her bum or slide down on her tummy.
Friends. She LOVES going to nursery on Sundays. They get to play with playdough. And Sophie is there. We have 11:00am church. She went upstairs today a little after 9:00am (after we had breakfast) and so I decided we should just get ready for church. I told her that we were putting on her dress for church, and as soon as she had is on she was telling me she wanted to go to church, then she was telling me she wanted to go to nursery and that she wanted to play with playdough. We ended up leaving for church early because she couldn't take not being there any more. Once we were there, she had a hard time accepting that we had more than an hour of sacrament meeting before it was time for nursery. We had to leave the chapel 30 minutes early so she could roam the halls, and it turns out she was not the only one excited to go to nursery, half her class was out in the hall. I go in to nursery for a couple minutes each week to do a short singing time with them, and it's been fun to go in and see her in there with other kids. A few times I've gone in and gotten the impression that my little Ady is a bit of a ring leader. I'm pretty sure she was just off doing her own thing, not meaning to have anyone come with her, but come with her they did. I guess I'd better watch her. Other than nursery, she really only interacts on a regular basis with Aleigha, who is about 11 months younger than Ady. Ady LOVES Aleigha. She loves to give her hugs and kisses, she loves to play chase with her (some adult assistance required). She loves to give Aleigha toys (she loves it less when they are her own toys she has to share, but she's getting better and better at that). It's really fun to watch them play together, especially now that Aleigha is getting big enough to initiate play herself- she'll also initiate big sloppy open mouth kisses which is probably why Ady is a lot more sick now than she ever was last year.
I'm sure there are things that I'm forgetting, but Ady's been napping for almost 2 hours now and there's a chance she'll wake up any second and Clayton is in Malaysia, so it's not like he can help watch her while I finish up. I guess I'll have to do a post later to catch everyone up on Clayton and I, but that'll have to come another day. I'll try to put some pictures up now, but those will probably have to come another day too, it all depends on what pictures are already on the computer, and how long Adelyn chooses to sleep.
Talking. She talks up a storm. And it's not babbling nonsense. She's quite intelligent with her language. She tells me exactly what she needs or wants, she will take stories we've ready anywhere between 1-100 times and will read it to me (she gets most of the words she attempts right when she "reads" the books), she'll warn herself (or maybe me) to be careful when she's doing something that might make her fall down, she asks her friends to play (and admittedly, she kind of bosses them around sometimes), and she sings :o) She's tunes in to conversations that other people are having and will chime in, just so you know she's listening. She's also quite observant of other people and will let you know when someone needs help (that can get a little awkward in public when she points out the crying child you're trying to politely ignore by saying, "the boy is sad."
Signing. We like to watch the Signing Time videos. Sometimes I wonder if she's really learning anything from them because when I try to get her to practice the signs they are doing on the show, she just sits and stares and ignores me; but then randomly a few days later, when we see something in real life that we saw on the show, she'll say and sign it. It's fun.
Colors. At first Ady knew the signs for colors better than she knew her colors. Meaning, I would point to a picture of something and ask what color it was and she wouldn't know, but then I'd sign the color, and then she would say the correct color. Now she knows her colors pretty well. Today during lunch she was reading a book, the title is "Opposites" and every letter is a different color. She took her fork and pointed to each color and told me what color it was. She got them all correct :o) With any of her "tricks," the key is to let her show you that she knows, because if you ask, there's 50/50 chance she'll answer.
Numbers. Over Christmas break I tried potty training Adelyn (it didn't work, just FYI). Every 15 minutes we would go to the bathroom and Ady would sit on the potty. Sometimes she would sit there just fine, and other times she would want to get off immediately. When she wanted to get off too soon, I'd tell her she had to sit there for 20 seconds, and I'd count for her. It didn't take too long, and she was counting with me. She had a handle on 1, 2, 3 but then it would vary what came next and how high she went. After a week or two, she was pretty good going to "ten." It sounded like this, "one, two, three, four, six, seven, eight, nine, kiss." (Yes, five is missing) Well, sometimes it ended in "kiss" other times it ended in a mumble. After Christmas break she had a lot more practice counting when I told her that she had to share her toys with Aleigha (the girl I do a babysitting swap with) and that Aleigha could play with her toys for 10 seconds. Sometimes she made it to 10 and got the toy back, but mostly she made it to 7 and had found something else to play with by then. Lately she's just started counting in the middle of playing. Not prompted by me. She just starts counting. Today she made it to 13 all by herself (she counted 5 and she said 10). I'm pretty impressed with her :o)
Princesses. Obviously I love Disneyland and most things Disney, Clayton claims it's my fault how obsessed he's become with Disneyland now, so of course our daughter is intrigued with Disney characters as well. For Christmas Adelyn (and I- I'll be honest) got an interactive Fisher Price Disney castle. When you put a princess in the middle of the castle, she'll tell you her name, sing you her song, and say a few other lines. The castle taught Ady all the princess' names so when we let her know she was going to Disneyland, she let us know all the princesses she wanted to see: "See Tiana. See Snow White. See Cinderella. See 'Roura." etc. Plus, the castle (and Daddy's always listening to the Disney station on Pandora) taught Adelyn the princess' songs. My favorite memory of our last trip to Disneyland was when we went and checked out the lobby of the California Adventure Hotel (whatever that one's called) and there was a man playing the piano. We were walking through and Ady says "Elsa" and sure enough, the pianist was playing "Let it Go" from Frozen. Then we walked into a store to look around, the second we walked out Ady says, "Little Mermaid" it took me a second or two to realize that the pianist was now playing "Part of Your World." But far better than her recognizing the princesses that sing each song (although that is pretty good) is that she sings the songs too. Obviously she needs a little help, but when I'm singing and stop, she's right there to fill in the missing word (well, when she's in the mood to sing for you). It all started with "Ursula" meaning "Poor Unfortunate Souls" she also sings "Part of Your World" "Cruella Devil" "Do You Want to Build a Snowman" the 7am song from Tangled "Winnie the Pooh" and others that I can't think of right now.
Don't worry, it's not just Disney characters and songs she knows. She'll sings "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam" "I Love to See the Temple" "Wheels on the Bus" "Patty Cake" and more. Princesses aren't the only people she knows, she knows who Jesus is and that we go to church to learn about Him, and that we should think about Him during sacrament (sometimes she lets everyone else know they should be thinking about him too when she yells out his name while the bread and water are being passed around). I show her pictures of her family (mostly my side) and she knows who her family is. She loves the Cat in the Hat and the Little Einsteins (aka Rocket). And there's Minnie and Mickey and that whole gang, but that's going back to Disney people.
Movement. She's been walking since the day before her first birthday, but now she has so many more ways to move around. She jumps places more than she walks or runs- there was even a point where I wondered if one leg was shorten than the other because it looked like she was hobbling, but it was just her jumping/leaping forward. She'll still crawl, when she's playing with Aleigha or when she's being silly or when she's going through a tunnel- one of her favorite activities as of lately. She loves to spin and run ovals (she does circles, but she calls them ovals). She goes up and down stairs upright now. She's careful enough that she'll only walk down stairs when Mommy is right there to watch her, otherwise she'll hold my hand and walk or sit on her bum or slide down on her tummy.
Friends. She LOVES going to nursery on Sundays. They get to play with playdough. And Sophie is there. We have 11:00am church. She went upstairs today a little after 9:00am (after we had breakfast) and so I decided we should just get ready for church. I told her that we were putting on her dress for church, and as soon as she had is on she was telling me she wanted to go to church, then she was telling me she wanted to go to nursery and that she wanted to play with playdough. We ended up leaving for church early because she couldn't take not being there any more. Once we were there, she had a hard time accepting that we had more than an hour of sacrament meeting before it was time for nursery. We had to leave the chapel 30 minutes early so she could roam the halls, and it turns out she was not the only one excited to go to nursery, half her class was out in the hall. I go in to nursery for a couple minutes each week to do a short singing time with them, and it's been fun to go in and see her in there with other kids. A few times I've gone in and gotten the impression that my little Ady is a bit of a ring leader. I'm pretty sure she was just off doing her own thing, not meaning to have anyone come with her, but come with her they did. I guess I'd better watch her. Other than nursery, she really only interacts on a regular basis with Aleigha, who is about 11 months younger than Ady. Ady LOVES Aleigha. She loves to give her hugs and kisses, she loves to play chase with her (some adult assistance required). She loves to give Aleigha toys (she loves it less when they are her own toys she has to share, but she's getting better and better at that). It's really fun to watch them play together, especially now that Aleigha is getting big enough to initiate play herself- she'll also initiate big sloppy open mouth kisses which is probably why Ady is a lot more sick now than she ever was last year.
I'm sure there are things that I'm forgetting, but Ady's been napping for almost 2 hours now and there's a chance she'll wake up any second and Clayton is in Malaysia, so it's not like he can help watch her while I finish up. I guess I'll have to do a post later to catch everyone up on Clayton and I, but that'll have to come another day. I'll try to put some pictures up now, but those will probably have to come another day too, it all depends on what pictures are already on the computer, and how long Adelyn chooses to sleep.
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