This is a girl with a ready smile and a set mind. She is lots of fun! She loves to play with big brother and sister and she's tough. If she gets a little clobber she'll either respond with a laugh or mostly fake cry, just to show she didn't like it. But she recovers quickly and usually is back in the scramble. She is daring and determined, climbing on anything and everything, pushing chairs around the kitchen to get what she wants from up high, standing on the rocking chair and making it rock on purpose. She is also very affectionate and expressive, often wrapping her arms tightly around our necks in a hug or giving sweet kisses on cheeks.
She sat in her high chair for 30 minutes playing with this wipes tub filled with empty plastic easter eggs I found stashed in the closet.
Showing her sign language for "eat". She also signs more, please, all-done, drink, and milk.
She verbally says da-da, ma-ma, woof, meow, ee-ah (Peter), oh-wa (Cora), ay-ah (Moriah, a neighbor friend), uh-oh, up, hot, uh-uh (as in "no"). She nods and shakes her head no. (Thankfully the high pitched scream she was doing this summer has disappeared!)
Lately she's been into wearing Cora's clothes! I didn't think this would start for 10 years! She brought this t-shirt of Cora's to me and was obviously asking me to put it on her. After I slipped it over her head she had the proudest look on her little face. It was so cute watching her run around in this t-shirt dress. Thankfully, Cora thinks it pretty cool having a little sister wearing her clothes at this point!
What else about Addie? She's 17 months old. (My semester ends on her 18 month birthday so I probably won't be thinking about making a blog post about her at that point, so we'll count this her 1 1/2 year update!) She LOVES milk. Oh my, she would drink milk and only milk all day if we let her.
She likes playing in the bath and especially likes having the water running a little bit to play with the trickle from the faucet.
She is fast! She is not quite running but she moves quickly.
She would play with my car keys all day long if I let her.
She loves the idea of dogs, (more than any other animal) but is terrified by the real thing. Pictures are good for now!
She only has 8 teeth still. She's working on cutting 3 molars, though.
I gave her her first full hair cut last week! I think I did a good job, too :) I took an inch off the back, and trimmed around her ears and the hair that falls on her forehead. The easter egg pictures are before the cut; the t-shirt pic is after, but it's hard to tell.
Hard to say what her favorite food would be. She's not a great eater, like the other two kids were as toddlers. She's not picky, she just barely eats anything so I have to always remind myself to only give her a tiny bit to start out with. I can't say that there's any thing she refuses to eat, so that's good!
