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I don't seem to have a title for today.

Yesterday was a crazy day. I ran Adele and I all over town going to doctor's appointments. We both have sinus infections, and are both on antibiotics (gee, would've been nice if the doctor would've just given me some medicine LAST week, eh...then MAYBE Adele wouldn't be so sick too).

Anyhow, after running around all day, we packed up and headed up to Uncle Tim's for the night (Adele slept some on the ride up...yay!) and then today we drove to Memaw and Gramps'. (Adele slept in the car today, too...good girl!)

We get to stay put for tomorrow and then head back to Uncle Tim's for a whirlwind tour of the Midwest!

Mommy's Little Helper

So, today Adele decided to "help" me wash the windows:







I have two thoughts: 1) Yum, Yum! and 2) Can you say blackmail?

Oh, Those Toes!

Adele found Cookies feet again yesterday, here she is, pruning away:

Ten Months...Continued

I feel SO much better now! I had a migraine, but my silly cold/sinus infection had me fooled into thinking that it was "just" a sinus headache...no wonder the tylenol wasn't working!

Thank goodness I decided to go ahead and try some migraine medicine! (I don't usually take migraine medicine unless I'm SURE I have a migraine because if it's really a sinus headache, the medicine doesn't work at all, so I end up "wasting" it...and it's EXPENSIVE! Unfortunately it can sometimes be very hard to figure out which kind of headache I have!)

Anyway....

To celebrate Adele's ten month "birthday" (or because we were too lazy/sick/whatever to cook) we went to Puccini's for dinner. I ordered Miss Adele some food off the menu for the first time ever. They had a "special" for little ones called the "finger plate" or something like that, which consisted of cheese, crackers and black olives.

Man oh man, did that little girl like her black olives! (well, I guess that's not entirely true...she liked the first few, but then just started sucking out the juice, and then spitting the olive back out). Just more proof that she is, indeed, my daughter. She may look just like Daddy, but she has my taste buds! I guess that's why Daddy won't let her even try coffee until she's in high school!

As I reported earlier, she was up WAY TOO EARLY (4:30) this morning because of her terrible cough. It sounds like it's going to be another long night, the poor little girl just keeps hacking away. We elevated her mattress, and I gave her benadryl to hopefully "dry" her up, but neither seems to be working yet. At least my headache is gone and my sore throat is manageable...oh, and it's the weekend, so if I end up staying up all night again, I know I can rest and nap some tomorrow while Daddy watches over Miss Adele. I don't know what I would've done without him today. He took both girls for a walk, took Adele swimming, put her down for her afternoon nap (and found it incredibly hard to lay her into her crib after she nuzzled into his shoulder...ahh...), and kept her entertained on top of continuing to babyproof the kitchen!

Have I mentioned that Adele is pretty smitten with her Daddy? She looks at him with such awe, and will look for him when he's not in the room. Sometimes when he leaves she cries like its the end of the world (fortunately that doesn't last long....for now) until I distract her. Yes, she is definitely a "Daddy's Girl" (But who wouldn't be with such a great Daddy!)

She doesn't really seem to notice me...probably because I'm almost always with her. (I typed that to make myself feel better).

But...this morning, when Daddy let me go back to sleep for an hour (I told you he was SuperDad today), Adele crawled up the stairs to see me...yes, ME! (And don't worry, Daddy was right behind her on the stairs). I actually got to witness the huge smile as it spread across her face at the sight of me. Talk about melting your heart!

Okay, I better stop blogging now, or I'm going to just have to go into that little girl's room and scoop her up out of her crib and snuggle her all night long! (of course, I might as well anyway...with the sound of that cough, she's not going to be sleeping through the night tonight!)

Ten Months!

Happy 10 month birthday, Adele!

Right now you are swimming with Daddy while I'm at home *resting*. You weren't feeling well this morning, and NEEDED Mommy from 4:30 until 7 or so when you decided to be up for the day. I don't mind though....you're still my little cutie pie! Daddy let me sleep for an hour or so once he got up, but I'm exhausted, and still not feeling well myself. I can't wait for you guys to get home so I can snuggle you!

Whose Toes Are Those?

Too bad I don't have a picture of anyone's toes for you...

This morning, Adele was completely fascinated by Cookie's feet. She stood by the couch (yes, Cookie was up on the furniture) and pulled at Cookie's fur, touched her claws and the pads of her feet, looking up at both of us smiling and laughing. Cookie just put up with her (it helped that I was petting Cookie...plus, she knows that when she allows Adele to maul her, she ends up getting rewarded with treats big time!)

In other news, I'm feeling better...still sick but MUCH better than I was earlier this week. Now it just feels like I have a bad cold, not like my throat is going to explode out of my ears, so I'm making progress! If you ever go to the doctor and they tell you that you have a sinus infection, but won't treat you until you've been sick for two weeks, I definitely recommend Musinex.

Adele and I had a great morning...we actually played since I was feeling so much better, Yay! Aunt Katie gave her a "Little People" nativity set and while she was amused by it for all of two minutes yesterday, today she was much more interested in it. She carried one of the wise men around with her all day.

Ooh..funny story: as I was putting a few ornaments on the tree yesterday, I was wishing that I had a baby friendly Christmas decoration for Adele to play with while she "helped" me (She was grabbing ornaments and handing them to me...kinda scary!). Finally I remembered that I DID have an Adele friendly toy! The Nativity set from Aunt Katie! She gave it to us before Adele was born, and it was tucked away in her closet. So, I took it out, and Adele was pretty interested like I said, for about two minutes. Then she pretty much fussed if I even made her look at one of the pieces!

Anyway....after playing with her nativity set, we had lunch with Jenn. Surprisingly, Adele and Ainsley were BOTH awake this time! (Of course, Ainsley was SUPPOSED to be sleeping....) That's a first, and we have lunch together pretty frequently. At one point, the girls stood together, wrinkling up their noses and smiling at each other. It was so cute! (Aunt Katie: before you ask, Adele was holding onto the couch...but she is working on standing all by herself). We had a nice lunch and played a for bit and then we headed over to Target.

I wore Adele in the sling the whole time at Target and no one said anything about curtains. (Thank Goodness!) She snuggled right up into me the whole time we shopped (a whopping 30 or 40 minutes...). Sometimes she would pat or rub my back, too. It was so sweet! If she didn't get so heavy after a while, I would have stayed at Target for hours just to keep snuggling with her!

When Daddy got home from work, Adele was all smiles for him, too. I think my improved mood helped her be more cheerful too! (and even Daddy said tonight that I've been a trooper and haven't been too whiny since I've been sick!...but I am sick, nonetheless, so it's been hard to keep my energy levels up when playing with Little Miss all day long!) Anyway, as I said, she was all smiles for him. Wrinkley nose smiles. Daddy loves those! She snuggled in to him at one point too (which she almost never does), but was back to wrinkling her nose at him by the time I grabbed the camera.

It was hard to put Miss Adele to bed tonight. She was SO cute all day long, plus tomorrow she'll be 10, yes TEN months old!!! I can't believe it! Do you think she'd stop growing up so fast if I just held on to her really *really* tight???

I know I haven't posted pictures in a while...here's one from Wednesday (I think...):

Miss Crazy Hair Girl!

Shopping!

Well, Adele and I are both feeling under the weather, still but that didn't stop us from going shopping with Jill today! (I figure, if I'm not sick enough for the doctor to give me any medicine, I'm not too sick to shop!)

Adele tried to be a good baby, but like I said, she's not feeling 100% either. I can't really pinpoint what's wrong, but I think her throat might be a little bit sore too. She's been very finicky about what she eats lately, and that's DEFINITELY not like her!

I actually think that if she'd been able to just crawl around the mall, she would have been fine! I did let her crawl a little bit in one of the stores, but that was crazy! She didn't want to crawl to Jill, or to me, so she would have been a huge pain if I'd actually let her crawl around! She went back and forth between the stroller and her sling, and I could usually curb her fussing by changing where she was "riding."

At one point, I stopped to feed her a bottle on one of the little benches outside of a store. Just as we were finishing, a lady came and sat next to us. She seemed pretty crazy, but I didn't mind at first, especially since I knew we were going to get up soon. I got Adele into the sling and suddenly the lady started trying to touch her face (She sits in the sling facing me, like I'm holding her on my hip) I wasn't too fond of that! Eventually we got away and headed into the store.

I guess two women started walking behind us. Suddenly I hear, "It looks like she's wearing a curtain" and then something about fashion and dressing like Carol Burnett. I was DYING inside! (Remember, I'm wearing Adele in the sling). Finally I turned a corner and they could see Adele. One of them said, "Oh, there's a baby in there!

Jill and I were separated at this point, so I called her so we could find each other. As I was telling her where I was, a guy stopped me and said, "Mrs. G, blah blah blah..." as I was on the phone. I had to say to Jill, "Um...just a minute, I guess someone is trying to talk to me." Did he not see that I was on the phone? It turns out he recognized me from working with a colorguard a few years ago. I guess it was just *that* important to say hi.

Eventually Jill and I found each other, and had a good laugh about my "curtain." At that point, both Adele and I had had enough of crazy shopping for one day!

Sick, Sick, Sick!

Mommy, that is! I am sick enough that I actually went to the doctor today.

I really feel bad for Adele, because she has a dud of a Mommy right now! All I want to do is lay around and whine!

Well, I thought she was going to nap, but I guess I'm wrong....more blogging later, I guess :)

Not That Lazy, After All!

Well, we did finally get out of our PJ's yesterday.

We ran errands and then went swimming at the Y, then I made a huge dinner...well, not really huge, but it took a lot of preparation! I made homemade potato soup. I've been toying with different recipes for...years...and finally I have one that Daddy likes! So, I made a double batch of potato soup, and baked a ham to go with it. Now I have a ham bone to use in a soup in the future, not to mention a ton of leftover ham to eat up!

Adele tried some soup and loved it, but she just kept spitting it out when I tried to feed it to her for lunch today. I didn't even try any ham today, she gobbled it up last night, but apparently has "issues" with leftover meat...she basically refuses to eat leftover meat. She'll spit it out if it's mixed in a casserole, and she won't touch it if I put it on her tray. I used to hate leftover meat too, so maybe she really can tell the difference....hmmm.

Today Adele has had lots of "Daddy Time"...which is about her favorite thing to do on the weekends!

We went to early church, then Daddy and Adele went bumming at Target while I went to a Sunday School class. I liked my class, and they found some necessary items at Target, so it was a good morning for everyone! Adele told me that she just loved shopping with Daddy.

Adele went down for a nap as soon as we got home from church, so Daddy and I ate and then Daddy brought in the Christmas tree. I set the tree up while Adele napped. When Adele woke up, she had more Daddy Time when I put the lights on the tree. She's not all that excited about the tree yet, but we think that once we put the ornaments on she'll like it more.

Out of the blue, Adele got super fussy this afternoon, we're not exactly sure why, but she's napping now, so hopefully she'll be feeling better (read: Less Fussy!!!) when she wakes up.

Grandpa Time!

Grandpa was in town for a conference, so he spent the night here last night. Adele was so cute playing with him...and showing off for him!


He took us out to dinner last night, and Miss Adele was the perfect little baby! We've had a lazy morning so far today. Daddy picked up breakfast burritos from Qdoba, so we ate here and spent time lazing around, rolling around on the foor and reading books. In all honesty, Adele and I are still in our PJ's. (It makes sense for her, since she's currently napping, but I have no excuse!) The weather is miserable, it's cold and rainy. (Fortunately for me, that's how I like it...but I must admit, I guess it is perfect PJ day weather!)



Adele was sick on Thursday, she was running a slight fever and she pretty much pooped all morning long. (Sorry!) At first I though the pooping was related to the peanut she accidentally ate on Wednesday, but the fever changed my mind. I tried to feed her mild foods all day, but she threw up her entire lunch anyway. Thankfully we were outside, so the majority of the mess went into the grass, as opposed to on the carpet! We were supposed to go over to Laureli's for dinner but ended up cancelling...I didn't want her to get Laureli sick, but as it turned out, Laureli already wasn't feeling well.

Friday morning Adele's fever was gone, but she was still sleepy. In fact, she laid her head down on the ground for a one-minute snooze while on her way to read some books:

She perked up quickly and was a real cutie all day. She got to wear a new, sparkly outfit from Aunt Katie, and she just loved all of the "bling":

Silly Girl!

Here are some random "silly" moments with our Ellie Belly (I think they're from Saturday):

Say Cheese!

For you, Aunt Katie: (I apologize, she's eating cheese, not lima beans...)

"Cheese"

"Yum!"


She's signing "more":

"Where did my piece of cheese go?

"Oh, it's in my mouth..."

The BIG Tub!

Adele learned how to get out of her baby tub, so tonight was her first bath in the big tub. She LOVED it!

Playing with Laureli

I got to watch Laureli for a few hours this afternoon. I'm glad I took the camera out right away, because we had about 10 or 15 minutes of "play time" and then the girls took "shifts" napping for the rest of the afternoon.

Laureli is 6 months old, and can sit up, but she doesn't crawl yet. This made things just a little bit...complicated. Adele was either taking all of Laureli's toys away, or attempting to crawl on her/push her down. I'm not quite sure if Miss Ellie Belly was jealous, or if she was just trying to figure out how to "play" with Laureli. The only time she really looked jealous was when I was feeding Laureli her bottle. Adele stood right by me and pulled at my pants.

Laureli wasn't very interested in eating anyhow (there was too much to see!) so I waited to finish feeding her until Adele went down for her nap. As soon as she finished her bottle, Laureli fell asleep, and not two minutes after I put her down, Adele was awake in her crib. It took me a while, but I discovered that Miss Adele was poopy, so I changed her and put her back down...just in time for Laureli to wake up. By that point I was almost in tears laughing! Adele didn't stay asleep, but it didn't matter, Josh came over to pick Laureli up. So much for a fun afternoon with two babies! Oh well, better luck next time! (Or maybe I should consider myself lucky and leave it at that!)

"Outta my way, Baby!"

Adele "read" Mommy Hugs to Laureli:

"Wanna see the cute baby in the mirror?"

"No thanks, I like this red cup!"

Here's some quality "sharing" time:

Laureli: Adele, you have the cutest dog!
Adele: I know, and her food is tasty, too!

Poor Little Peanut

This has been one busy and CRAZY day!

It started with a dream that I was eating peanut butter. I felt SO awful when I woke up! It was one of those dreams where I wasn't sure if it was a dream or not...

Adele was up early this morning (well, 7:15...earlier than usual) and she was ready to play! Cookie had a treat that she was ignoring, so I tried to keep Adele away from it (she always tries to grab them, and I'm SO afraid that Cookie will bite her if she actually gets a hold of the treat!) I played with both girls on the carpet for a while, but then I decided it was time to make breakfast. I guess I figured Cookie had already eaten the treat, because I didn't even look for it when I went into the kitchen. A short while later, I looked over at Adele, and she was clearly chewing something. She had her paci in one hand, and a disgusted look on her face. Sure enough, she had gotten the dog treat and managed to bite it into three pieces. One was in her mouth, and she didn't like it!

I praised Cookie for "letting" Adele have the treat and then rushed to find the bag to look at the ingredients. I've heard that there is often "peanut product" hidden in dog food, and although I've searched her FOOD food high and low, I haven't found anything on the bag that says peanut. Well, this bag of treats was different. "Peanut Flour" is CLEARLY labeled....ARGH! How could I have missed the dog treats when I removed ALL of the peanut product from our house???

I gave Adele benadryl and watched her closely for the rest of the morning. She seemed fine, but tired (probably from both the benadryl and waking up earlier than usual.) I was a little afraid to put her to sleep in her crib, but like I said, she hadn't really shown any signs of a bad reaction, so I put her down for a nap. She only slept about 25 or 30 minutes, but I actually didn't mind that she woke up....it's easier to watch her for a reaction when she's awake!

It looks like she'll be okay, she was looking pretty rashy tonight but otherwise she seemed fine. I didn't even give her a second dose of benadry. I guess we got lucky this time, but I'm not about to try that again anytime soon!

I think I'll pay more attention the next time I have a peanut butter dream, too!

Reading With Daddy

Adele loves to read books with us. She sits up and pays attention to the whole story, and she even helps us turn the page!

Daddy couldn't be more proud of his little girl!

Here they are reading "Daddy Hugs" by Karen Katz. Enjoy :)

Good Eats!

Thursday's Dinner...she made her Daddy proud!
She actually ended up eating WAY more lima beans than that, and not really liking the french fries (maybe because they had no salt on them....even if you've never had fries before, it's just instinctual that they need salt, right?) She ate half of her burger too!

She ate her "leftover" lima beans for lunch on Friday and I couldn't feed them to her fast enough! (I can only give her 2 or 3 pieces at a time or she just keeps shoving food into her mouth). I had started out cutting the beans in half, but she was "chewing" them so well that I decided to try giving her whole beans, and she did a great job with them whole! (Yay...less work for Mommy!)

Last night, Adele ate an ENTIRE grilled cheese sandwich (I made it with hardly any butter, don't worry!) I didn't let her eat the crusts, becuase I didn't want her to choke on them, but holy cow, she ate the whole thing! I thought for sure I'd be able to finish some of it for her! She had carrots too (because I had tomato soup with mine...too salty for babies, but carrots looked about the same...lol). I think she likes eating like the "big" people!

Tonight I made stir-fry (well, really fried rice with pork...) and Adele ate all of the same ingredients as I did...just without soy sauce, and not fried, so it was a little healthier.) I did puree some of her rice and some of the veggies to make sure she got the proper nutrients out of her food, but I left plenty of "chunks" for her to practice her chewing!

It is SO much fun giving her new foods (or just preparing the same foods in a different way) for her to try! I'm so glad she's a good eater, from what I hear, we're pretty lucky with that! We're still trying to pinpoint some allergies, but we are getting used to finding things that she can eat that are also healthy for her!

More Precious Moments

Daddy's Girl:
She and Daddy snuggled for a good long while in that chair today. They looked just perfect sitting there together. Daddy says it was one of his best moments with her yet!

Lazy Sunday...Kind Of

Last night Daddy beat the "Endless Setlist" on Rock Band (on Expert, by the way). But basically what that means is that he (well...we, I helped a little) played playstation non-stop for about 6 1/2 hours! We traded off a little so that he could take the girls for a walk, and clean up from Adele's bath, but he did the majority of the work. We're both pretty proud of him (I never thought he'd actually do it!)

However....6 1/2 hours of non-stop playstation can wear a person out! He started just before 5, which means he wasn't done until around 11:30...that's way past our bedtime! So, today we were pretty tired. Adele and I let Daddy sleep in a little bit, but we couldn't resist snuggling with him in bed around 8:30. Cookie wanted in too, and we just can't say no to her fluffy face. As my earlier blog stated, Cookie fell out of the bed. She was busy scratching herself and suddenly found herself on the floor. It was funny in a sad kind of way. We wish we could've seen her face as she fell!

There were tiny snowflakes falling while we took our morning walk...that means it's FINALLY starting to feel like fall! That's good because our downtown is already decorated for Christmas, and that just feels weird when it's in the mid-70's outside!

We went to Pizza Hut for lunch, and Adele was a little cutie. She ate baby food, but did get to chomp on the crust of one of my slices of pizza. She kept herself entertained while we ate, and did a great job of eating her own food.

Daddy took Adele swimming while I gave Cookie a bath (poor Cookie, she's had a rough day!) Then Adele napped while Daddy mowed the lawn (no more beautiful leaves...how sad).

I made stir-fry for dinner while Adele and Daddy played, and then we did a video chat with Memaw and Gramps. So, we were busy all day, but it felt like a lazy day at the same time. (And we didn't even watch any football...)

Adele was pretty much a sweetie all day long! Daddy and I weren't able to take the naps that we had planned on, but we got lots of stuff done around the house, and Adele was so fun to be around, we preferred to hang out with her anyway.

So They All Rolled Over...

And one fell out.

There were three in the bed and Miss Adele said, "Where's Cookie?"

Precious Moments

Better late than never...

On Sunday when we picked up Adele from the nursery at church, she was "helping" an older (or at least taller) girl push a little walking toy. I don't think that either of the girls noticed the other one, but they were both just as busy as could be pushing their walker along. Adele was actually half crawling/half holding on, so she was basically walking on her knees. She was so busy at first that she didn't see us. She was definitely proud of the "job" she was doing! It was just the cutest thing ever.

I was reminded about this precious moment when she started walking on her knees to push her own walker today. TOO CUTE!

I Couldn't Resist

I know, I know, I've posted about a thousand "leaves" pictures recently...

...But you would too if you had gorgeous weather, a gorgeous tree, a gorgeous dog AND the MOST GORGEOUS baby ever to top it all off!
(by the way, when you type "gorgeous" that many times, you realized what an unattractive word it actually is...)

"I could've sworn I used to have legs"

"I think I found them..."

"This isn't my foot..."

"How did this monkey get here?"

"Oh, Cookie!"


What do you think? A replacement for the Cookie picture over our fireplace?


And now for the not so gorgeous job of folding laundry...

How Do You Spell Trouble?

C-O-O-K-I-E!

She's been wild this morning! She had to have a "time out" while Adele and I were getting dressed. She was SO excited about going for a walk that she kept running into Adele, knocking her over, and she'd "block" me from helping Adele once she was down. Finally I took her downstairs and made her sit, then I wouldn't let her back up the stairs with me. She actually did finally sit in her "time out" too...which was SO cute!

So, I tried to take her to see Clutch, but our neighbor was out waxing his truck, so Cookie had to stand and growl at him a bit. Then she tried to cross the street about ten times while walking down to Clutch. I think she was chasing invisible Chippies or something.

She was fiesty with Clutch, too. She growled and barked at him more than usual and pretty much had the rips the whole time with him...well, that is, after she spent about 2 minutes tormenting him by laying just outside of his fence and rolling. Then, all of the sudden she was done and bolted toward home. Fortunately I was able to catch her and put the leash on her!

She had some howling too, which Miss Adele absolutely loved!

Adele had a major fuss for a diaper change, but other than that she's been extra cute too. I have her a biter biscuit for part of her breakfast 'cuz she was naked (she peed through her PJ's and Sleep Sack!) and she tried to share with Cookie. She's so cute like that!

When I was putting her down for her nap just now, I thought she was asleep, and suddenly she spit her paci out so it went behind the chair. I gave it back and what do you know, she spit it out again. She did it over and over again. It was SO hard not to laugh, but finally (after about 4 or 5 times) I just put her in her crib. She fussed for a second and now she's out.

Note to Daddy:
She's been saying "dada" all day too. Oh, and carrying the block with your picture around. She definitely misses you!

C is for Cookie:

Just Another Manic...Wednesday?

Okay, not really manic, but I've been happy and sad all day long. Today marks two months until I go back to work. WAAHHHHH! I also got to meet a new baby today, Isabella, my friend Jennifer's little girl. She was born on October 19th and is just the tiniest little thing ever. When born, she weighed one whole ounce more than Miss Adele did, so I'm assuming that Adele was once that tiny (although, Isabella's feet are WAY smaller than Adele's ever were...and that I know for sure!) but it's hard to remember Adele being that small. So, it was a bittersweet visit...mostly happy and good, but it reminded me that Adele is getting so big!

Oh, and let's not forget about our new president-elect! It's the first time my vote has "mattered" since I've lived in Indiana...go blue! (Although, thinking that I'll already be back to work when Obama takes over the Oval Office made me sad once again...)

So...it was a bit of a manic Wednesday...But I wouldn't change it for the world!

As beautiful as it was to meet a new baby, it made me sad that Adele has already grown up so fast! Although, she's apparently still "tiny" to some people. I picked up my friend Jenn's little boy, Will from daycare today, and when I told him I was going to meet a tiny, brand new baby he said, "you mean a tiny baby like Miss Adele?" TOO CUTE!



In honor of my "big girl" I thought I'd write about some of the things she is doing now:

She is definitely in a stage where anything that ISN'T a toy is much more fun than anything that IS a toy!

You saw the video of Adele playing with Daddy's shoes...those are one of her favorite "toys"! She really loves all shoes, she even found one at Isabella's house today that she tested out.

This morning while I took a shower she found a box of Q-tips (yeah...we have to do more babyproofing....I know!) Anyhow, she would pull out a Q-tip or two, put them into her mouth, make a face, pull them out and throw them behind her. She repeated that for several minutes, and then just dumped the whole box out and grabbed fistfulls.

The other day I was stirring a mug of tea, she looked up at the sound of the spoon clanking on the cup, so I just had to give her her own spoon and coffee cup. She played with them for ten minutes uninterrupted! She loves having a "grownup" spoon to play with!

She can now climb up our whole staircase, and quickly, at that. The other day, she tried to climb down the stairs. She was fearless, put one hand down the step, then the other, and managed to keep her balance while she got one leg down. She had to turn sideways to get the next leg down (and YES, I was RIGHT THERE the whole time!) However, once she got the second leg down, she looked around and climbed back up. Silly girl!

Her books are in two baskets in the living room. She loves to pull them out of the baskets and throw them all over the floor. But, if I start "reading" from one of the books in her hand as she "throws" them, she'll turn toward me and hold the book up. If I pick her up to read the book, she'll end up sitting through book after book after book! We hope she continues to love reading!

Her teeth are another one of her favorite "toys" She has been biting like CRAZY and it really HURTS!!! I've tried to be firm about saying "no biting" and giving her a teething ring to chomp on, but she's so cute and innocent when she goes to bite you, it's almost cute!...but not too cute. I actually still have marks on my knuckle from where she bit me this morning!

In addition to biting, she's become quite the little "pincher." Her pudgy fingers and thumbs pinch anything and everything they can grab hold of. One of her favorite places to pinch is our necks. She grabs a bit of skin and "rolls" it between her fingers. OUCH!

And...on the other hand, I hear that little Isabella isn't so fond of sleeping at night yet, so maybe it's not such a bad thing that Miss Adele is growing up so fast!

Fall Leaves Fall!

Daddy and I just love the tree in our front yard at this time of year:

It's becoming one of Adele's favorites too!