Shaggy

Gamma and Papa arrived Monday afternoon, not long before DiDi came back from the dentist. Adia went nuts when she saw them. She immediately grabbed Gamma's purse and searched through it. She was surprised to see DiDi walk in the door next. She didn't know who to snuggle with and spend time with. When it was time to leave, Adia didn't want to ride in our car, but refused to be separated from DiDi. DiDi rode next to Adia in our car.

We went to Costco. Adia didn't want to ride in the cart, but also didn't want to ride on Papa's shoulders. She ended up riding in the basket of the cart instead. When there wasn't much in there, she was fine. She actually thought it was pretty cool because she kept seeing wild birds hopping and flying around. She must have thought it was like a trip to the zoo. When the cart started to fill, Adia said, "I'm out of room!" She wasn't happy to be surrounded by boxes. She enjoyed sitting on a box instead.




We went to lunch at Red Robin and then to play at the mall. Adia had a blast. She had an Orange Julius while DiDi and I looked at the guinea pigs in the pet store. I'd been showing DiDi the same pig for the last couple days. She ended up getting it, even though it was obviously very young and very pregnant. Adia loved the piggie. She wanted to keep it. Adia fell asleep on the car ride home. She ended up sleeping from 6pm - 7 am! She was not a happy camper when she woke up to find no DiDi and no piggie. She was looking for both of them.

Adia had an eye doctor appointment on Tuesday. We had a picture of Adia's wandering eye and the doctor finally saw what we had been talking about during the exam. The weird part was in the picture, it's her left eye that's wandered out and during the exam, it was her right eye. She let us know that since it's happening with both eyes, it's actually better than one eye. That means she's not favoring one eye over the other and it only happens when she's tired or gets bored. She'll bring the eye right back when you get her attention back. She'll go back to the eye doctor in 3 months to see if it's changed any. Until then we have to do eye exercises with her and every time we notice her doing it, we have to get her attention and make her bring the eye back.
Adia had her first haircut today. I've been trying to grow her bangs out so they'll be the same length as the rest of her hair, but after today, we'd both had enough. She refused to keep a clip in and they won't stay out of her face otherwise. I set her up on the bathroom counter, grabbed the scissors and comb and took a deep breath. Daddy woke up before I made my first cut and tried to get Adia to hold still. It didn't work very well, but I did a pretty good job considering I had a moving target with curly hair. I wasn't so sure what I thought about it at first, but it's definitely growing on me. I think Adia likes it too since it's not in her face anymore.

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After her haircut, we went to the mall to hopefully burn up some of her excess energy. She's been a terror all day. While I was washing dishes this afternoon, Adia found a crayon and colored her entire table and part of one of my clean shirts. It was bad and she even apologized profusely while I cleaning it up. While I was cleaning up the hair in the bathroom and putting it in her baby book, Adia started screaming. Scott told her to put a sock in it. This is how she responded:


Adia had a blast in the play area. She made a new friend and they played chase. Adia even started yelling her name. When her new friend left, Adia started crying. She didn't want to see her go. To cheer her up, we let her ride on the ice cream truck. She climbed in and asked for "bunny money." She climbed in the train after she truck was finished and asked for more bunny money.


We told her we would ride the escalator instead. She loved that and then it was onto the pet store. Adia loved checking out all the animals, but was quickly sidetracked by Orange Julius. We shared a Merry Berry while watching a guy fly remote controlled helicopters. It's become a ritual. She then wanted to hug the bear, get a free sample and beg for an M&M caramel apple. We keep telling her to wait for DiDi this weekend and she might get her wish.


Daddy and Adia got the mail on the way back to the house. It was Adia's lucky day because she had a package from her Secret Santa. She was so excited. She also hadn't napped all day so her excitement soon turned into a meltdown because Mommy needed to make dinner. She ate a little bit of dinner, took a bath and hung out for a little bit before she was desperate for bed. We read her giant stack of books and she fell asleep the second I opened the cover of her last book, "Goodnight Moon." I love it when she falls asleep like that.