Pigtails

I am so excited Adelé's hair is finally long enough that we can pull it up.  The way it has grown makes it impossible to do one single ponytail on the top so we resort to two pigtails, it's cuter that way anyway. 

 Forgive the big shiner on her head, that was from her fall last week off of her car.  Poor bug hits that same spot every time she bangs her head. 

Someone told me that putting your child in the sink makes doing their hair so much easier and pleasant for everyone involved.  We have been practicing since she was able to sit.  She did a great job sitting and getting her hair put up.  As soon as we were done she was off to try and find Dinky.   Since Adelé is obsessed with playing in their food bowl, I had shut him in the pantry to eat his food.  She sat outside the door and would look under it and say "deedee" that's how she says Dinky. She loves that dog.

Loves Her Dogs

Adelé absolutely loves her dogs.  Especially Dinky. One of her first words was Dinky.  Every time we pull up to the house the first thing she says is Dinky! 

With all this admiration for him she also wants to follow everything he is doing.  She recently has found that she can crawl out the doggie door too.  It scares me to death every time she does this because I am afraid she is going to go face first onto the concrete porch.  She definitely keeps me on my toes. 

Busy Baby

Adelé is getting busier and busier by the day.  If there is anything in her reach she finds it and explores everything about it.  I had a little can still sitting out from Easter and she found it and had spread the paper all over the floor.  (That's what I get for not getting everything put away)

We got out her mat from when she was just a little babe and she squealed, she loves rolling around on it and playing on it.  Love this girl.  Or course in between reading books - she is such a book worm.

With all of this movement makes for a big appetite.  She is still such a good little eater.  Green beans rank as her favorite. 

She loves to explore and with that comes her personality of having no fear.  She climbs up on everything, her favorite is anything that appears to be dangerous.  Last weekend she decided sitting on her car was no longer thrilling enough so decided that she should stand instead.  She knows when she is not supposed to be doing something and so gives this sly look. 

Sadly, on Sunday evening I had walked into the kitchen to get everything put away so we could go to bed and she climbed up on the car and stood up, the car shifted and she fell right on her head.  By the time I was able to get back into the living room and take her from Oley she already had a huge goose egg on her head.  I felt awful, we debated whether or not to take her into to get checked.  After calling mom, who never says go to the doctor, she said I should take her in, so I was bound to take her in.  Oley didn't think it was necessary so I texted a doctor I work with and he reassured me she would be fine I just needed to watch her for a couple hours before putting her to bed.  I felt awful.  Good thing she is a tough cookie, she only cried for maybe 30 seconds and then seemed to be fine.  I guess I just over react way too much. 

She definitely is busy, but we sure do love her!

Shopping

Adelé is such a good little shopping buddy and I love getting to take her with me.  Saturday morning I had to attend a church meeting for Girls Camp so Ad and I got ready and headed to that.  Once we were done we hit up the mall.  She loves to be out and about seeing other people, so the mall is one of her favorite places to go!  As I would try on clothes she would play on her stroller or eat some snacks.  

When I was growing up whenever we would go to the mall with my mom she would always treat us with a stop at the popcorn stand and we would get popcorn.  Since we don't have one of those in our mall we stopped by the orange julius, neither of us had eaten lunch so I ordered a large one that we would split between the two of us.  Adelé loved it.  I assumed by the time we got to the car there would still be at least 3/4 of the drink left.  When I took it from her put her in her car seat there was only about 1/8 left.  She loved it, so I just let her finish it off.  It's amazing how much she eats and she doesn't gain anything.  

The poor little bug was worn out from her trip to the mall so was fast asleep before I could even get out of the mall parking lot to drive home.  I absolutely love having a little girl that goes shopping with me!

First Camp Out

It's been a full couple weeks of firsts for our little bug.  First hikes, first steps, and now her first camp out.  Our stake asked that we take our young women on a hike before girls camp so our girls asked if we could do a camp out too.  We all thought that this would be a fun idea so were up for it.  We took the girls up by Mt. Rainier and camped Friday night and went and hiked around Paradise on Saturday.  I was worried because it's only the middle of June so it's still fairly cold outside and we took Ad with us.  It took awhile for her to fall asleep, but once she was out she slept well.  She slept on my pillow rather than in my bag with me so I was constantly waking up to put more blankets on her, fortunately she stayed warm the entire night.
Unfortunately, I lost a bunch of our pictures. . . still searching they have to be somewhere.  Here are the ones from the campsite and a very few of the hike.

 The Girls.

And She Is Off

Adelé has been furniture cruising like crazy recently.  She doesn't really like to have us hold her hands and help her walk so we have resorted to letting her be the independent little girl she is and encourage her along.  For Grandma's birthday she decided that she no longer wanted to just be a furniture cruiser anymore but be the real deal!  (Please forgive the outfit, Oley dressed her and thought that she matched. . . good thing she has a mom, right?)

Ok so I am not computer literate enough in the whole movie thing, so here are her her first steps a couple weeks later in a much shorter video.   Sorry one of these days I will learn how to use the computer!

Impromptu Picture Time

Lucky for our little Adelé I don't have much time to take other people's pictures anymore so I spend all of my time taking hers!!  I haven't really taken my camera out and taken pictures for awhile so I was just itching to take some.  I wanted to have this great photo shoot with a mirror and a baby. . . well we will just say my mirror didn't end up being the size I wanted and there are too many trees around our yard for it to turn out the way I would have liked.  But Adelé absolutely loved playing on the mirror!
First she had to love on her bunny from Papa - she adores this thing!

Then outside we went.

She loves shoes!

All that playing was hard work and she wasn't about to let Daddy eat all of her snack.

First Hike

With the warmer weather we were getting a little bit of cabin fever and wanted to get out.  The great thing about living in the northwest is the endless beauty around us.  Oley has been looking for hikes to take his boy scouts on and so he wanted to check this one out before taking the boys there.  I was all for it, so we invited Nathan and Caitlin to join us.  It was a nice quick morning hike.  Adelé loved it as well, she took a little nap the entire time.  We took a couple pictures in the parking lot and then were off. 

It really was a nice easy hike - I would highly recommend it if you have small children or just want something that won't take all day.

Adelé did great!  We stopped for a quick lunch break on the trail.

The weather was perfect and everyone enjoyed their time.  All and all a great experience - can't wait for more weekends like this!