Yesterday Addy turned 26 months old. She is totally cracking us up lately and I wanted to get some of her silliness down before she moves on and I forget it. Her vocabulary has, yet again, really taken a leap. She’s talking in complex sentences and she pulls whole phrases out of thin air that she’s heard in the past and uses them right on cue. Even her brothers have noticed her crazy talking streak. I think some of her speech is getting clearer and easier to understand. She still mispronounced a lot of blends though so occasionally we are left scratching our chins at what she said but that’s rare now, at least for us.

She has started singing in her crib when she wakes up from a nap or in the morning. It is the sweetest thing EVER. We’ve made a really big deal out of it so now she’s very conscious about her singing so we’ll get a big response. And that reminds me, she is almost always waking up happy now! She used to be a rough waker, like me, but now she wakes up in a great mood ready to run off and play.

Usually Tony gets Addy up from her naps and in the morning. When I do it, its always a big surprise. Today was one such day and Addy cheered, thinking it was Daddy and then said “Hmm. I don’t THINK so!”

Another thing she loves to do right now is talk about her feelings. “I’m so happy!” or “I’m so sad” and she can fluctuate between the two in a heartbeat. “I’m so sad” is frequently accompanied by total body collapse into a sweet heap of baby sadness. For effect. Because when she is REALLY sad she doesn’t actually tell us. Its so sweet when she prances around the room singing “I’m so HAPPY, mama! I’m so HAPPY!” over such simple things. Another thing she says is “I’m so silly!” - that always cracks us up. Occasionally she’ll say “I’m a big girl!” or “I’m so cute!”. And she really REALLY likes to talk about how “cool” things are.

Today we went to see Wall.E and it was really great! Addy had been looking forward to it and she did really well. She watched almost all of it. At one point there was a scary part, to her, and she buried her face in me. When the crisis was averted she said, right on cue, “That was a close one!”

Also during the movie, Tony bought some Reese’s Pieces to share and whenever he would hand a few to Addy she said “What do you have for me, Dada? What do you have?”. Every single time. Even though the answer never changed.

Also she loved the pixar Short at the beginning of the movie today and cracked up through the whole thing occasionally throwing in a “That’s funny, Mama! That’s funny Dada!”. Whenever she hears people laugh she always tries to join in and fake-laugh and talk about how funny it is.

Addy is having so much fun swimming this summer. She is getting really fast in the water and can cruise across our pool in the blink of an eye. We don’t even have to be in the pool next to her anymore. We can sit in the hot tub while she plays around in the pool. It is BLISS! This past week she fell in love with a water slide at a local pool and went down that thing about 100 times. It was such fun! She also likes to stick her toes up out of the water so we can come tickle them which for some reason cracks me up every time.

She has a love-hate relationship with our pets. She frequently screams at the dog when she’s passed out asleep and not even remotely a threat to steal her food. She also loves Mrs. Amy Beasley (our hedgehog, don’t you remember?). She isn’t at all afraid of her or afraid to touch her despite the very sharp quills. And she’s very gentle with her. But she absolutely loves my cat, Anna. One time she told her “I love your tail, Anna!” Recently I realized she can tell my two big cats apart even though often WE can’t. Sometimes she will walk up to one and say “Oh you’re not Anna, you’re Smokey!”. I’d love to know what traits she uses to tell them apart. But her most bizarre relationship is with Teegan’s cat, Sticky Bubblegum. Addy calls him “Sticky Gummy” and she totally taunts that cat and that cat will slice right through her soft baby skin. Over and over Addison will be gentle, pet nice, leave Sticky alone and then out of nowhere she’ll do something to provoke that cat and he’ll stab her with his razor claws. And she does.not.learn. Actually I am sure she’s learned a long time ago but she’s decided at some point that its worth the pain to provoke that cat. And then there is much bandaids to be wasted and fussing to be done. And then it starts all over again!

I am happy to say that the whining has also more or less stopped. Of course it has been replaced with complete bedtime meltdowns. she will run, hide, make up every excuse in the book to avoid naps and bedtime. It takes some work to hook her in but once we find the hook she’s an easy sell. But the lengths she will go to to avoid being caught and carried up for her naps or bedtimes are quite humorous.

My girl is still in love with all things pink and purple. Now she will not even let me give her those great white sunglasses and instead insists on her pink ones. Blech. BUT there is hope. Recently when faced with the ice cream choices at 31 Flavors she spent quite a bit of time changing her mind back and forth and back again but she DID finally opt for the chocolate over the “pink” flavors!!!! That’s my girl!

And here’s the saddest thing ever. My girl is becoming picky. Its true. The 20 months of pure food bliss are changing. I offered her a piece of portobella mushroom recently and she tasted it and took it out of her mouth and said “Yuck.”. I told her to take a bite, like meat. She tried again and said “What IS that? Its EW!”. Ha. She is just not arbitrarily eating anything without even looking at it first anymore. It sucks but I know we had it easy for a long long time.

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