Growing Up

Adia’s 3rd birthday is tomorrow and I can’t believe it! She’s growing up so incredibly fast. She spelled her name today so I could write in on her peanut butter jar (Her stuff’s labeled so it doesn’t get gluten contaminated), she can climb the highest ladder to go down the tallest slide without any help when other kids twice her size were too scared and she’s started drawing actual pictures. The shower walls are covered with drawings of us. I love her people and trees and animals. It’s actually pretty easy to tell what they are too.

The twins are growing too. Mira’s a fast crawler. She follows me when I leave a room now. She also started pulling herself to a stand and tonight she was couch surfing. Not cool! She’s not even 8 months old yet.

Leia is still tipping over when she tries to sit, but she is rolling everywhere. She looks pretty irked that she can’t follow Mira around and really gets upset because Mira’s constantly stealing her toys.

Adia enjoys baths every night after dinner with her sisters. It’s pretty funny watching the 3 of them in the tub. Now, if only they’d share and it was easier getting them out of the tub.

3 Year Portraits

Today Gramma visited. We took Adia to get her 3 year portraits done. It was an awful experience. Adia used to always be so wonderful. She even was when we went in October, but she was horrible today. She wouldn’t stand still. She kept jumping or moving. She wouldn’t smile. She was just completely uncooperative. Luckily, we managed to get a couple ok ones, but nothing like the wonderful ones from last year or the year before.

      

The best pictures were the ones laying down because I tickled her legs. That made her laugh so she looked like the Adia I know and love, not the little demon that made her appearance instead.      

It’s a Beautiful Day

We were lucky and had some wonderful weather this weekend. Adia got to play outside and we went for a few walks. The twins enjoyed the sunshine too.

 

Adia even attempted riding her tricycle. She hasn’t been on it for quite a few months and we didn’t even know if she’d be tall enough. In fact, she’s grown so much that Daddy had to move the seat back! Adia even pedaled by herself. We were all so proud of her. Now we just need to work on steering. She has enough problems looking in front of her when she runs or walks.

Adia helped me make dinner on Saturday night. She was my official cheese sprinkler. She did a wonderful job and I almost got her to eat the finished product.

Adia surprised me on Monday by drawing a wonderful picture on the shower wall. She has bath crayons so she’s ok to draw on them, but she normally just scribbles. This time I actually had to ask Daddy if he helped her. He hadn’t helped her so we were both shocked.

After getting out of the bath, it was time to head to my dentist appointment. Adia had to come with me since her first real dentist appointment was right after mine. She insisted on taking pictures with her sisters first though.

Adia was wonderful during my cleaning. She sat and colored. She asked some questions and the hygienist gave her floss. It was soon time to head to her appointment. We were surprisingly early, but Adia was doing well. She panicked when we got in the back though. They let her look around and get used to the environment, but it wasn’t enough. When the dentist went to look in her mouth, she clamped shut. Nothing we did would make her open up. He told me not to worry about it and that we’d try again in a couple weeks.

We went home, picked up Daddy and the twins and headed to Red Robin. Mira sat in a high chair for the first time. She quickly fell asleep! I remember Adia doing the same thing at around the same age too. It was too funny.

After Red Robin, we headed to the mall. Adia really wanted to play so we let her. The place was pretty deserted so we let Adia take her sisters down the slide too. Both twins loved it. Adia was super excited too. She wanted to keep doing it, over and over again.

We walked around for a bit before going home. Adia got a caramel apple, which she enjoyed when we got home. She ate the apple along with the caramel and M&Ms. She used to always just eat the candy parts off.