16 Months

As Ad grows so does her vocabulary, appetite, and desire to be on the move.  She has now mastered multiple different animal noises - pigs, horses, sheep, lion, cows, snakes, dogs, cats, elephants, and will even beat her fists on her chest to make an ape noise.  She loves to say bye to people with the blow of a kiss and blows kisses to everyone she meets.
She continues to eat and eat and eat and doesn't gain a pound, lucky little girl! 

 

 She is definitely a little busy body - always up to something.  

 She loves her baby that Liz got her, but her blanky is still a must have no matter where she is or what she is doing. 

Reading is still one of her favorite things to do.    

As we get ready for Oley to start school next Monday he texted me saying I think Ad knows I am leaving soon, she is super clingy and fussy today.  When I got home and picked her up I could tell that she was running a fever.  Upon further inspection she had a fever of 101 degrees so we gave her some Tylenol, she laid with me for a little bit and then she started to feel better so I let her down to play. 

We thought that she was better and then as quick as I could snap my fingers she was back to burning up and being miserable again.  I checked her temp again and it was 103 so we gave her some Motrin and hoped that would bring it down.  She laid in bed with me and I would check her temperature periodically to make sure she wasn't too hot.  She was running at about 104 most of the night and then it spike to 105.  After calling Robyn and my mom they said just keep medicating her and trying to cool her off.  Finally it came back down to 100 by 3 AM.  Our poor little bug.  The next day she was fine and then that evening she got another fever.  It never got quite as high as the first night but once she finally kicked the fever she was back to her busy little self!
We are so excited for Oley to be going back to school, but realize it's going to be a whole lot different around the house.  Ad will be going to the neighbor's 4 days of the week.  She absolutely loves other kids, the neighbor has 3 little girls all under the age of 5 so there will be a lot of kids to play with, but with far less germs as a daycare.  She has always been home with Oley all day long and so it's going to be a huge change, but I think it will be great for her and it will definitely be good for me to get to get off work a little bit earlier and spend more time with her during the afternoons.  I can't believe it's already been 16 months.  I am so glad that Oley has been able to stay home with her for this long. I am anxious for him to finish up his schooling so that I will be able to stay home with her. 

Puyallup Fair

Since Ad loved the Blackfoot Fair so much we decided that we would go to the Puyallup Fair.  Going from an Idaho Fair to a Washington Fair was a big change, but they still had bad for you fair food, lots of animals (that you couldn't touch), and a lot of things to look at. 

 Ad especially loved the petting area.  She was able to pet the goats, chickens, ducklings, and a couple rabbits.

 Now that she can walk she wants to walk everywhere but as evidence from her nose she seems to fall quite a bit still.  While traveling home from Idaho we stopped for a rest, she was walking on the sidewalk and missed the curb and scraped up her nose, poor bug!

After walking around a few hours everyone was ready to go.  

 

Allison's Wedding

I love that we have a birth mom that continues to let us be apart of her life and family!  Adelé especially loves it.  When we got Allison's wedding announcement Ad just looked at it and giggled.  We have been practicing Allison's name for awhile now and she is finally starting to get it, she isn't very good at her "L's" yet so it's more of "ison", so she would point to Allison's pictures and say "ison" and then squeal. Super cute!
I am so happy for Allison!  It's stories such as her's that remind me that the Atonement of Jesus Christ is here for us.  Being apart of her most difficult days and now her happiest day is such a blessing to Oley and I.  
Coincidence or not Allison and Lucas were sealed in the same room that Adelé was sealed to Oley and I in - being there twice in one year was a true blessing.  Adelé played with Aunt Robyn while  we were in the temple and then Robyn dropped her by as Allison and Lucas came out. 

 They were married on a Thursday so we were able to spend the rest of the day buying Oley's car and spending time with family. 

 This pictures makes me realize she really isn't a little baby anymore.

 She loved riding in Robyn's Jeep with dad. 

Uncle Jacob was nice enough to let her play the piano with him while at Grandma's house. The next day we were able to go to Allison's reception.  

 Since we have not taken family pictures in awhile and we were all dressed up we had Caitlin take some pictures for us.  

Not only had it been awhile since we took family photos it has been awhile since I have taken Ad's pictures. Pictures used to be a cake walk for her but now that she is walking it's a little bit more tricky to get a good one.  I was only going to post one of these pictures of Adelé but there were just too many cute ones to choose from.  

They had a dance out on the deck after the reception.  Adelé absolutely loves to dance, she was in heaven with the loud music and lights.  We are so happy for Allison and are excited for all the fun times to come!

Hitting up the Town

Wednesday was the day that Oley planned to spend shopping for a car so Mom, Mar and I took the kids shopping at the mall.  What a fantastic adventure that was!  Oden held Ad's hand and kept her close to him, but that typically meant they were after any shiny object that they saw. 

Spending all this quality time with Oden she picked up on her new favorite word, "No".  Everything gets a "No" response now.  
That night I wanted to play dress up with her, so we spent the evening putting on the cute tutu that Kim bought her for her birthday. I had ordered a vest that was shipped to mom's house.  Oley was not impressed.

Oley's car shopping paid off, he decided on the car that he wanted to buy and I was mostly okay with it.  Poor Jacob was probably so frustrated trying to sell us a car.  We had a terribly difficult time deciding on one, without knowing what we really wanted, . 

Blackfoot Fair

Tuesday we went to the Blackfoot Fair with Marilee, her boys, and mom.  Doug and Shelbie met us there that afternoon.  Ad loved the animal barns.  She neighed at all the horses, baaed at all the goats and snorted at all the pigs.  She would have been happy seeing the animals and then getting ice cream and going home.  Although we did walk around all the sheds with crafts in them.  By that point Ad was ready for a nap and done. 

She had no fear of any of the animals.  She wanted to touch all of them no matter how big or mean looking they appeared. 

Idaho Falls Zoo

Allison had her wedding on the Thursday of the week of Labor day, so I elected just to take the whole week off.  This allowed us a lot of time to be in Idaho Falls.  We had a full week planned Monday we were going to spend at the Zoo, Tuesday the Fair, Wednseday Oley was going to buy a car, and Thursday we would go to the wedding, Friday the reception and then back home on Saturday. 
The kids loved all being at the zoo together.  They loved the monkeys.  Ad would have been happy just picking up rocks all day long, good thing she had Oden to help keep her on track.