These pictures were taken on one of those warm spring-like weather Sundays after church. She is wearing my old dress that my mom made me (with a few 2009 updates!) that I just LOVE! That is definitely her color! I was upstairs with her in her room, getting ready to change her and take the obligatory pictures for my mother, when she started yelling for her Daddy!
She has long been playing with her baby. It is by far one of her favorite things to do, and "baby" is one of her favorite words. (If anyone is anywhere around that is about 3 ft. or smaller, she yells out, "baby" at the top of her lungs, repeatedly!) The other night we were playing after dinner, and her sippy cup was with her (we remind her constantly to drink her milk after dinner, to try to get a full serving in her!). I looked over and she was giving it to her baby! So cute that she's already making that association. She's always been feeding her baby her 'ba-tul," (those disappearing liquid bottles - my mom gave her two for Christmas), but this was the first time she gave her a sippy cup! Precious! Adorable, this child!She loves to talk on the phone! She will put her play phones up to her ear, and pick up the regular phone and ask us to call someone! It is hilarious! Also, anytime she hears a phone ring, she says, "Hi-yo?" for "hello!" Love it!
I've written before about how she LOVES for her daddy to come home. Anytime that garage door opens, it's Daddy (whether it really is or not, she thinks it is!). She has recently started yelling for him over our bannister upstairs. She LOVES it when he comes downstairs to our foyer and answers her. "Daddy" is quickly followed by, "What are you doing?" which has been being asked for weeks, but still cracks me up every single time I hear it. She is amazingly friendly. She says "Hey!!!!" and waves to anyone and everyone she sees - even people in cars next to us!
In my car (and in Tommy's car, but he doesn't have the patience for it all the time like I do), Addie knows there's a CD in there with her music. I've written before about how she wants me to "tut" (touch) it (the CD button) as soon as I get in my seat in the car. Now, she specifically asks for certain songs: "Say, Say" (Say, Say Oh Playmate) and "Sea, Sea" (A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea). She has also started identifying certain songs just as the music starts at the beginning of the song: Row, Row, Row Your Boat, The Wheels on the Bus, and another one that I will have to edit post later and fill in! Precious! She isn't quite singing yet, but she is certainly talking about it and repeating words like crazy! I also sing her the sweetest little song that my Granny sang me, Church in the Wildwood, and just like I did at her age, she is already reapeating and loving the "come, come, come, come" line! Granny, I hope we are making you proud! I absolutely love sharing that with her! She has also started a few other sentences. Sometimes they are few and far between, and a stretch to understand them, but I definitely think that's what she's saying. They are:
"I need a cup; I do it; What's That?" and my personal favorite, "I Yuv You!!!"
Another funny thing she says now is "move." (We are trying "move please!" - I think "move" is just rude!) She knows if she wants to get somewhere/something and someone is in her way, that's what you say!
She is loving more and more her playroom. The other day I was upstairs and Tommy was in the kitchen. When I came downstairs I noticed everything was quiet. As I went to ask Tommy where Addie was, I saw her in the playroom. My mom got her a rocking horse that is low to the ground, that rocks and bounces (It is tacky and big and bulky and plastic, and Addie loves it. My parents also gave her a beautiful cherry wooden one - like I said, she loves the plastic one!). She has just the other day learned to get on it by herself (and she gets off of it by diving head first into the floor - hilarious!). Well, that's what she was doing. All by herself in there, rocking on her horse. It was the cutest thing, but for some reason that I have pondered for the past few days, it made me sad. I don't know if it made me sad to see my girl playing by herself, as in with no one to play with her, or what exactly? I know she plays with friends all day, and Mommy and Daddy at night, so there is no lacking there at all. I also know how developmentally good for her it is to have some independent play, which is something that my teacher mind is telling me to encourage. I guess in reality, and why I was sad, was that I never want to see that baby alone or without friends or anything. I am happy that she is happy entertaining herself, and I do know that is so important, but for some reason, it gave me the "saddies," as my father would say! This is a first for Tommy and me as parents, and possibly Addie Kate too. I was taking Addie's shoes off to get her ready for bed, and tons of sand dumped out onto the changing table! Ugh! Her little tootsies were covered. Straight into the bath she went!
Speaking of "tootsies," that is now how Addie refers to her feet! The first time I heard it, she was sitting in her booster seat, and stretched her little legs out under the tray. She touched them, looked up at me, and said, "Tootsies?" over and over again! If I tell her to go get Daddy's tootsies (like if Tommy is in the recliner with his feet propped up) she goes over and grabs them, then just laughs and laughs! Precious!
The other day, Tommy was in Charlotte playing in a golf tournament charity event, which meant he would be home late. This also meant that I had to take Addie Kate with me to a PTA meeting - whew, not so much fun. She just is NOT a "sit on your lap and be quiet" kind of girl (gee, where could she have gotten that from?). I asked a friend of mine that I teach with if by chance her older daughter could come and play with Addie for me. She said that she'd probably love to. Once we got there, Jaime's daughter, Kaylin, went upstairs with me to Jaime's classroom. I introduced Addie to Kaylin, and Addie immediately picked up on the name and apparently said it all night, "Kay-yin, Kay-yin!" Kaylin played with Addie for me for the 20 minutes or so PTA meeting and Addie loved it. (Sweet Kaylin even had to change a poopy diaper - yuck!) (This was also the first time Addie has been kept by anyone other than Mrs. Lu, grandparents, or my cousin, Margaret.) Two nights later we went to a Clemson baseball game with them, so Addie was able to see Kaylin again! Then, the other day Addie and I were in the front yard talking with our neighbors. Their granddaughter (who is the same age as Kaylin, but named Claire) was over. Addie immediately just started talking away, and for a while I couldn't figure out what she was saying. Then, I realized she was saying "Kay-yin!" Precious! Claire played with Addie - swung her on our swing and slid her down Addie's slide. So sweet! I believe those are all of her accomplishments as of now! Below is a video of Addie talking to her Daddy from upstairs! Enjoy!
Love how she has to get off of the slide - it is that tall!
