Oh, Static, What Have You Done to Me?

I had a nice day. I got dressed up for church and mommy put a braid and bow in my hair.

I was so proud of my braid and bow that I didn't take it out all day (much to the surprise of mommy).
And then, it happened. Just when I least expected it. I got attacked by static. I know it's winter and all, but this was rather ridiculous.

Oh dear. At least I can still smile about it. Static...you are NOT my friend!

Cupcake Day!

Yesterday was a cupcake morning. We made chocolate heart cupcakes and decorated them. I decided to put on a few of my favorite things: my apron, beads and headband. It's fun to dress up when making cupcakes!Here is my "getting excited face." Mommy had a very hard time keeping me from eating the raw batter. It just looked so good and it was so hard to resist.

I managed to sneak in a few licks when mommy wasn't looking.


The cupcakes are in the oven. Now it's time to run around before decorating them.

Eating, I mean decorating my heart cupcake.



A few of our decorated Valentine's Day cupcakes.

Hello, Kitty.

All About the Smoosher Hug!

Despite my face, I was pretty happy to get a smoosher hug from Oliver. We stayed like this on the daybed for five minutes the other day.
Daddy has been working really hard at school and work so we were so happy to see him when he got home on Friday night. He gives the best airplane rides. I'm watching him give Oliver one and eagerly awaiting my turn.
It's my turn. Hooray! I love airplane rides!
Trying to convince mommy to give us a joint airplane ride. She tried at least!

In other big news, I have been moved to Oliver's old bed. Mommy and daddy approached Oliver and me with the idea yesterday morning and it was met with lots of excitement. Oliver was jumping up and down. This means that I now sleep in Oliver's bed and Oliver will get another little boy bed. For now, he is sleeping in the double bed. Last night after mommy put us to bed, we each stayed in our beds and "read" books to each other and talked back and forth. After about 45 minutes, we fell asleep. It was our first sleepover and we had fun.
Last week, I met my new niece, Caliryan. She is really cute and I can't wait to play with her.

Are You There Grace? It's Me Adelaide.

Here I am writing a letter to Grace. I am telling her how Oliver and I like to pretend we are going on an airplane to visit them. Oliver and I pretend to hear knocks on our door and show Grace and Ryan around.

With that being said, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery so...

Because Grace wears panties, I have become obsessed with them. The word is not my mommy's favorite one to use but I love it. I say it all day long. In fact, the past day or so, I have decided that I must wear panties over my diaper. My own diaper cover. Love it! Luckily, Nonna gave me some panties for Christmas so I had them handy. I have yet to actually use the potty but I love my panties. Today, after dinner, I took off my diaper and just paraded around in panties. I told mommy that I "need to wear panties because Grace does."

Here is a picture of me in my panties on Charley's bed. Don't I look nice and sweet?

And, here is a picture of me showing off my panties. This was a classic moment where mommy just caught me "being Adelaide."

I call this photo: wearing panties with an Adelaide personality:)

Adelaide: The Entertainer

I don't know why my family thinks I'm so funny, but I will do something and then find them laughing hysterically. It may not be funny to other people, but given that my mommy is not funny, anything I do must seem REALLY entertaining! This morning, while I was eating a banana, I put on daddy's shoes. It was my attempt at preventing daddy from going to work. But, walking around in those shoes was a lot tougher than I thought.

Then, once I was dressed for the day, mommy asked me to pose. Here is what I came up with. It was the best I could do.

Then, mommy asked me what I was doing and I told her that I was dancing to a song. So, around and around in circles I went.

Until I fell down. Oops!

I was helping mommy put away the groceries by carrying the cantaloupe around. Then, I looked at mommy and said "It's time for me to eat the cantaloupe" and started licking it.

One more silly face before it was time to pick up Oliver.

Mommy's Very Sad Attempt at a Fort

On Wednesday, we got a lot of snow. So, we didn't leave the house except to go outside and play in the snow. We did a lot of activities but by the middle of the afternoon, we were begging for a fort just like the one daddy makes us.

Mommy, as she has told us, is NOT a fort maker. In fact, she had never made a fort until today. But, she tried. And, when daddy got home that night she got some fort making tips from him so she'll be prepared next time.

Oliver and I decided to set up our pillow pets and pretend that the back of the fort was a movie screen. Here we are watching a movie.

Then we crawled around for a while. We brought some of our board games in this silly little fort and played them with mommy.

At least she tried!!!

Catching Up

Since I last wrote, I have had a few adventures. I spent the weekend at Nonna and Papa's house while mommy went to class and daddy worked on a paper and at his job. I don't have any pictures from the three days we spent there but I had a great time. The first full day I was there, we went with Nonna to meet up with her friend Donna. We had lunch with her and then we got a special treat- a pillow pet! I picked out a Valentine's Day dog. I love it. Since I got back, I've been sleeping with it in my crib. We were also treated to a shrimp dinner and pea pizza. We did make your own pizzas and mine consisted of pizza with peas on top. Yummy! Nonna and Papa took such good care of us. Oliver was determined to stay another night, but we had to come home sometime, right?

When we got home, we went over to Grammi and Dzia Dzia's for spaghetti and meatballs. When mommy's class ended, she met us there. The food was yummy and I had fun seeing my cousin Gabriella, Uncle Mike, Aunt Carolyn and my Great Aunts and Uncle. Last week, Gabriella came over to play but mommy was very bad about taking pictures. I had fun playing with her!

Monday brought Monday Mad Science day again! We started out with a simple experiment involving citric acid and baking powder. After successfully completing the experiment, mommy decided we were ready for the big one!

We made an exploding volcano!!!

After the science, we decided it was time for a little Shakespeare, with costumes of course. Here I am searching for my Romeo:) Who can resist a wig wearing, butterfly winged lady!

Then I went the more modern route with the cap.

Today while Oliver was at school, I got my hair cut! I got a bob with little bangs. I love it. I've been so excited about it all day! My hair is much more under control. And, shhhh...don't tell anyone but it makes it look thicker too!

I forgot to mention...we are moving in with Lorelai. I'm just kidding of course, but when we went to her house to play the other day the three of us decided that we should live there and we also decided that there was room for mommy in the bed as well. Auntie Shannon took this picture. Mommy didn't have her camera with her...AGAIN. We were all laughing every time mommy said "pepper." Why it was so funny at the time, I can't remember but it was.

Snow, Sandra and Science

I realized that I forgot to fill you in on some of our other adventures over Christmas week. Two days after Christmas, it snowed. And I mean it really snowed. Daddy even had to take the train to work. After a morning of being cooped up inside, we headed outside to use our shovels, make snowballs and have some fun. I was warmly dressed and wearing the hat the Grammi made for me.

The day after the snowstorm, mommy's friend Sandra came to visit and we had a great time playing with her!

Oliver, mommy and I did make it to Zoo Lights this year. The same day that Sandra visited, we also went to Zoo Lights. It was really cold and snowy but we still had a great time!

We rode the train. Oliver and I were the only two passengers.

And then we looked at all the lights. We only stayed for about 45 minutes but we decided that next year we would go earlier in the season.

The other thing we've been doing lately is some science. Oliver got a science experiment kit from Santa and we have had a blast with it!!!

Mixing the red cabbage powder with citric acid to see what color it made.

I had to be closely monitored as I really like to put things in my mouth.

Random picture of the two of us at Grammi and Dzia Dzia's house the other day.