S'mores!

No, I didn't alter the color of her eyes in these pictures!

River Road Park

Daddy found a new park to take the girls to this afternoon. It looked like fun at first, but Adele had more fun snuggling Cookie, playing in the parking lot (supervised, of course!) and running through the empty football and softball fields than she did playing on the equipment:

Name that Photo!

She was running toward Daddy in this shot, but I think it looks like she's practicing some funky dance moves!

Pictures of our Princess

Some of these are so old, I don't even remember taking them!

Hamilton County Fair-sitting on John Stewart's horse:

Clearly an "Indiana" girl!


One day Adele decided that she belonged in her toy box-what fun!




At our zoo for "Animals and all that Jazz"

same place, different night:


On the Fair Train with Grandma and Grandpa:


at the State Fair:

She LOVED the rides...here she is up high on the ferris wheel:


Walking in Grandma's backyard

"Hold on to that baby, Daddy!"


At Cousin James' 2nd birthday party:

Awww....

This morning I was getting a CD out of the CD player in the piano room when I felt a tiny hand rubbing my back. I was confused, because this hand was definitely giving me a back rub, so I expected it to be Daddy, but it was a LITTLE hand. Sure enough, Adele walked around (hand still on my back) and gave me the best smile and a kiss on the cheek. She then pushed me down so that I was sitting and she gave me an even better back rub! When Daddy came in to see what I was gushing about, she gave him a back rub too.

What did we do to deserve such a sweetie?

Mo!

Adele has a new favorite word. This word proves that she's a toddler. Her favorite word is "Mo." She used to pronounce it "no" (like you or I would) but recently has decided to pronounce it differently. (She will still say "no" if you ask her to say it that way). Silly girl.

It is difficult to get frustrated with a fussy toddler who keeps shouting "mo" about everything (Want dinner? Mo. Want to read a book? Mo. Want to go outside? Mo. Want to go to bed? Mo. Mo, mo mo!)

Her other favorite word is bus. My SLP friends would be very proud of how she pronounces that word, enunciating each letter with enthusiasm. I got to drive her to Miss Jenny's today, and we sang "The Wheels on the Bus". She LOVED it! Especially when we sang about the windshield wipers (possibly because I used that moment to "clean" the windshield in the car.) We sang again at bedtime, and she's probably upstairs dreaming about busses right now (although if you asked her she'd say "mo", she wasn't.)