The Walking Tornado

It's as if something has clicked in Adelyn. Some trigger that has caused her to go into explore, unpack, destruct, taste, and must-keep-moving mode. It's so fun and so hard at the same time. If you were a fly on the wall today at our house, you might have heard the following:

"Good job. You found the bottom of your book basket! Now can you put them all back in?" (Nope)

"No, no. We don't put that in the toilet."

"Thank you for finding this hardened food under the couch!"

"Adelyn, when the doggies are eating they are a NO TOUCH"

"What's that in your mouth... oh gross. Give that to mama please."

"Austin, where did she go?.... I've lost our child."

"Found her. She was unpacking all the dog leashes for the 8th time today."

"We "pat-pat" doggies, not grab. Pat-pat, like this."

"Adelyn, pat-pat daddy's face... not grab. Pat-pat. Good job!"

"Babe, she sees your computer. She's going for it. Get it fast!"

"Gentle... gentle, Adelyn"

"No, no, we do not bite mama. That hurts mama."

"She's got the printer cord... she's got the printer cord!"

"Keep your food on your tray. We don't feed doggies."

(on the phone) "You should see my house right now. It looks like a tornado went through."

 

To any rebuke we may give her, we are often met with this response...



Oh, the drama.

It's hard being one.

I Miss Spring

It's hot hot hot around here. We're doing our best to keep our busy little ladybug occupied inside but she just can't seem to keep her eager little hands of expensive, important things. Here are a few snapshots from the last few days.



Walking lessons. She's getting closer each day!





I found some frisbees as a garage sale last weekend. Frisbees are Chauncey's FAVORITE toy so I got about 10 for $.50. You can see below how much he has liked this red one AND why I only paid .$50. They don't last long.



Hair.



Feet.



Buddies.



 

One Year Later...

Funny Videos

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Photo a Day: Week Three

Here is week three of my Photo-A-Day challenge.

    









Yep. Got pulled over. For the first time in my life, I might add! The cop didn't seem to be impressed by that fact or by Adelyn's flirty smile when I rolled down the window in hopes that she would say one of her "hiiii's" to him. Got a ticket and had to add an extra $50 to it because it was a school zone. For the record, I was going 33 in a 30 on my way to the library. Since summer school was in session, the speed limit dropped to 20 on a 100 yard stretch on our road. Boo.



 

I'm Hacked... About Being Hacked.

In case you're wondering what the heck has happened to Learn and Go the past few days, I've been hacked. I'm still working out the kinks and will tell you the full story when my little bloggy-blog is healthy again but until then, hang with me- and all the weird things showing up on my blog right now. Don't worry, it's not contagious.

I have blog posts stacking up and some good stories to share.

But until then, this pretty much sums up how I feel about the whole situation:

Father's Day

I don't even remember last Father's Day. Since Adelyn was only a few days old we were both in a fog of sleep deprivation and simply trying to survive rather than finding creative ways to celebrate Fatherhood.

This year I had a little more time to put into making my hubs feel special. Here is what we (Adelyn and I) came up with:



Adelyn wrote a little card to her daddy and I interpreted what she wrote for him. Here is what it said:

"Daddy- Happy Father's Day. I like you a lot. I like when you earthquake me. I like when you sing to me the oh-miss-Adelyn song. I like it when you read me the Wide-Mouthed Frog book in your funny voices. You make me laugh a lot. Thanks for teaching me to blow rasberries on Mommy. It's fun. Most of all, I like to see how much you love Mommy. It makes me want to someday marry a man who loves and respects his wife as much as you do." -Adelyn

What's funny about this card is the story behind making it. I got Adelyn all ready to finger paint for the first time. I taped the paper to the floor, set her on a towel, stripped her down to just a diaper, and gave her some finger paint and showed her how to use it. I was so excited to see what she would do when she discovered she could paint. I overlooked the fact that she would be more interested in EATING the paint than using it. After my multiple attempts to redirect her to the paper, she got mad and started flailing her arms (flinging paint everywhere). As I attempted to calm her down, she wanted me to hold her and climbed up on me and managed to get finger paint all over me, my clothes and in my hair. We were quite the sight. We managed to get a little painting done but most of it was done because I was forcing her hand to touch the paper rather than go in her mouth. Not quite the vision I had in mind for the first finger painting experience. Either way, Austin got a good card out of it.

In addition to a special card, I took Rachel's Father's Day Gift Recommendations and got Austin a lap stand for his ipad. He's always trying to find ways to prop it up on a pillow so I thought he would like it. I was right! Austin's only request for Father's Day was Imo's Pizza and for me to watch a basketball documentary with him. I'm thankful he's a simple man.

Towards the end of the day, Adelyn was playing in her play room when I came around the corner to see this:



It gave us a good chuckle.

Happy Father's Day.

She'll Never Need Mascara

Doggie on a Diet

Poor Sophie. She's been put on a strict diet and doesn't get to be on the clean up crew when Adelyn eats anymore. She's taking it pretty hard.

Photo a Day: Week Two

Here is my second week of taking a photo a day.



This was taken at Kids Club. My dear husband transformed into a character named, "Gergu" for the week.





So I obviously didn't take this picture because I am in it but I thought it was a good "view" of what we did June 9th. Birthday party!



 









Check out Photo-a-Day: Week One

Adelyn's First Birthday Party!

Happy Happy Birthday Adelyn!

I know every mom says this but how in the world has an entire year gone by!? We celebrated Adelyn's birthday with a watermelon themed party (since Adelyn's favorite food is watermelon). I had her decked out in a special onesie too.



Here is the front. I made it with my Silhouette Machine. (Check out Thriving Home for other Silhouette projects I've made in the past few months.)


We had most of our family in town to celebrate. Here is Adelyn with Aunt Les.



Grandma and Great-Grandma



Adelyn did a good job greeting all the party-goers too. She loved watching all the kiddos run around and didn't mind being passed around from person to person.



Uncle Sneak (who took most of these pictures by the way) got Adelyn's hair all riled up for the party.





Here's our attempt at a family photo.



Great-grandpa and Grandpa.



Cutie in her brand new sandbox!



It turned out to be a really nice day. Most of our time was spent in the back yard playing yard games and hanging out.





We of course had PLENTY of watermelon!





What would a watermelon party be without a watermelon cake? (Strawberry flavored if you're wondering)



Adelyn had her own special "smash cake" too.



I think she liked it.



What do you think?





She got to open some presents too. When I say "she got to" I really  mean I encouraged her to pull the tissue paper out of the bag which actually happened maybe two times. She was too busy socializing with the crowd to be distracted with such menial tasks. No worries, though, her second-cousin, Emmy, was more than willing to help out.



Isn't she a cutie!



Nana had fun too!



It was a super busy day. I learned that throwing a birthday party is A LOT of work. It was totally worth it though. Hopefully one day I can show Adelyn this blog post and tell her about her special watermelon party.

Happy Birthday you cutie-patootie! We love you!