We've been back in Eugene since Thursday. Adia's fever finally broke Saturday. It was up to almost 102 on Friday, but Tylenol and cool baths took care of it. Adia's finally starting to act like herself. Her nose is still running and she's still got a pretty bad, wheezy cough, but she's playing, active and generally her crazy self.

When I say crazy, I mean it. I got out of the shower yesterday to discover Adia splashing in the toilet! I was NOT a happy camper. I plopped her in the bathtub, covered in hand soap and let her wash off while I got dressed. Afterwards we headed to Target to buy a toilet lock. I wasn't going to have her playing in it again. She's not so happy about the lock. She's been attempting to open it since I first put it on there. I hope it takes a few months before she figures it out. Since the locks came two in a package, there's now on the fridge too. Adia doesn't quite have the strength to open the fridge yet, but Tanae does. Now I just need to buy door nob covers because Adia's almost to that point too.

If the toilet wasn't bad enough, I was in the bathroom a few seconds and when I came back to the living room, Adia was no where to be found. She had been there when I walked into the bathroom. I go into the kitchen to find her sitting on the kitchen table. At least she wasn't standing, but the kitchen table is not the place you want to find your 1 year old. Our table is no longer a safe place to put anything and she can reach the edge of the counters now too.


You'll notice there's a bookcase in the background. That's been her obsession today. I walked out there, when she got too quiet, to discover her trying to climb it. It's definitely not stable enough to be climbed and there's plenty of items (breakable and not) to fall on her. Pretty much, all day long, I've been chasing her around, trying to prevent her from climbing, getting into trash cans and toilets, mixing clean and dirty laundry, and removing her clothes from her drawers. I can't be everywhere at once and I was going crazy. Luckily, she's sleeping now. When she wakes up, hopefully I won't find her hiding in her closet, like she was earlier today.

Despite driving me nuts, she's getting pretty interested with the toilet. She peed on it yesterday morning after she first woke up. I cheered so loud, I hope I didn't scare her. This morning we tried again, but I don't think I caught her before she peed in her diaper. She did grunt and let out a lot of gas though. We tried several times before and after breakfast and each time, she'd grunt and act like she was going to poop, but each time, no success. She ended up going in her pull up and then she started crying. She seemed really mad at herself. While sitting on the toilet this morning, I asked her if she was done and she looked at me and said, "Wan beat Nae!" I guess she's in a competition on who will be potty trained first.

Heather's bridal shower was on Monday so DiDi picked us up Sunday afternoon. Adia kept asking for Nae, so on our way back to Florence, we picked her up too. They were so happy to see each other. They held hands in the car, big grins on their faces. Heather said that all Tanae had been doing was wandering around the house, calling, "Ada?" Adia had been the same way. She's been walking around saying, "Nae? Where Nae? We find Nae!" They both have one track minds.

We spent Monday morning at the park and then picked up items for the bridal shower. Both girls went down for naps at the same time, which was nice. They were both pretty cranky. Adia wakes Tanae up way too early every morning and Tanae needs lots of sleep. They were both well rested when we headed to the bridal shower. Adia actually wanted Heather to hold her, which is a very new development. Adia did well since she can't eat the pizza or cake. I brought food for her and M&Ms while everyone else ate cake.


Both girls desperately needed baths when we got back. Adia's face was covered in chocolate. They splished and splashed before crashing early for the night.


Adia woke up in the middle of the night and screamed for a hour. She's teething and sick. She was coughing like crazy and you could tell she felt awful. She kept crying, "Owwie, Mommy, owwie!" DiDi ended up taking her because I couldn't get her back to sleep. DiDi got her back to sleep and they slept on the couch for several hours. She gave me Adia back around 5am and Adia snuggled up and went right back to sleep.

We went to the park in the morning. Both girls were high energy and crazy. Adia was climbing all over everything and went down the slide several times, with Tanae right in front of her.






After they were finished at the park, we came back to DiDi's for lunch. Adia climbed right into her chair, hinting that she was hungry. DiDi turned her back to cut up some food and when she turned around, Adia was sitting on the table. Adia has certainly turned into a monkey lately.


Once lunch was over, we climbed in the car to head to Eugene. DiDi was supposed to be taking Adia and I back, but when we arrived, Scott was super sick. After making him chicken noodle soup, we got back in the car and headed back to Florence.


When we got home, Adia went right in the tub. Tanae refused to get in though because she was too worried about DiDi. While I was getting the girls ready for the tub, DiDi closed her finger in the door. She got blood everywhere and thoroughly scared Tanae. Adia was oblivious, however. Tanae just kept asking her, "You ok?" Once the bleeding stopped we were able to convince her everything was fine, but she still didn't want in the tub. Since I only had one kid in the tub, I was able to use the cradle cap goo on Adia. It makes her really greasy so I spent the time after her bath scrubbing her head with a nail brush. I managed to get almost all the cradle cap off her head and she didn't complain. I then washed her hair in the sink to get rid of the oily mess.

Last night Adia spiked a fever too. I'm glad I bought an ear thermometer. It read 100.9. Since she was asleep, I didn't want to wake her to give her Tylenol. I did give her Tylenol when she finally woke up at 8:30! Now both girls are pretty crazy. We need to head to the park.

After walking to dinner last night, Unky Eck took us for ice cream. I think Adia's been ice creamed out because she wasn't that interested in hers. I don't blame her though, cotton candy ice cream is pretty nasty. She did like M&Ms in it though. Afterwards we wandered around Oakway a little bit. Adia blew kisses and checked out the fountain. She really likes water.






She was up late last night and early this morning. After breakfast we went for a walk. Adia was sportin her new striped pants, which I love. She ended up taking off one of her slippers and handing it to me. Luckily she doesn't chuck things out of the stroller. She just casually holds them to the side until you take them from her. She only managed to remove one after trying for half a hour to remove the other one.


We left the house at 9:30, but that's apparently too late in the summer. By the time we got back to the house, I was boiling. I guess we'll have to do our walks even earlier for the meantime. I'm fine with that. It's just hard to get Adia fed before we go.

Now Gamma's here and she's taking us out to lunch. Adia hasn't napped today. I thought she was going to fall asleep about a hour ago, but she fought it. We recently discovered that she can scale baby gates and climb in the tub. She has attempted to do both again today. She's also becoming really good at telling us she needs a diaper change. Today she even grabbed me a diaper and laid down where I asked her too. One problem though, she wants to wipe herself. That's not always the best thing when she's poopy.

I do like how she helps with the laundry now. She put all her dirty laundry in the hamper today and then helped me load the wet laundry into the dryer. She even closes the dryer door. Now, if only I could convince her to help fold the laundry instead of unfolding it all. Or maybe she can learn to put it away?