I am not a painter

but here is my painting that Laura asked me to post.

Dinner tonight

Adora was eating dinner tonight in her high chair, like usual. She was playing with the puddle of gravy I put there for her to dip her broccoli into. She started saying, "Tickle, tickle, tickle!"--she was tickling her gravy! Jake said it's the funniest thing she's ever done :)

Aunt Laura's visit!

Smelling the "flower" at a water fun day at home before Aunt Laura's visit.

"Uh oh," what happened, Mommy?

Aunt Laura's sunglasses are SO COOL!

I look so grown up in Aunt Laura's headband!

I kept diving off of Daddy's back when I was riding on it, so he played horsey on me!

Playing on the equipment at The Plex.

Look at me all by myself!

I can slide all by myself, too!

I'm too busy to stop to pose for a picture!

Finally, at home on a DDR machine.

Adora's first professional haircut

Adora's 15-month statistics

23 lbs. 6 oz, 30.7"

These are both above the 50th percentile! Big girl!

This is a video of Adora's sweet, sweet voice! She has been performing on the webcam recently. She can point to her eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and bellybutton. She even says bellybutton--ba ba eeeyuh! It's so cute. She has lots of words now--outside (OT-sssss), down, baby, bye bye, mama, dada, etc. etc. etc. I think it's about 25 words in all. I have a list somewhere and would take the time to look them all up except she's been napping 2.25 hours (WOW, the usual is 1.5), and I'm afraid she'll wake up any minute

We went on a camping trip the last weekend in May. It was so fun! We went on two hikes, one to the top of a mountain. Adora didn't sleep very well, but since she was sleeping with Mama and Dada, she could just roll over and nurse when she made a peep, so she took full advantage of that.

Speaking of sleeping, our little one is finally sleeping through the night! She goes to bed around 8 and wakes up around 7 to nurse and be up for the day. These times are fairly variable, but it's nice to pretty much know that she won't be waking me up in the middle of the night.

Adora also got a molar today! So she's up to 9 teeth. This one is the one-year molar on the bottom right.

What else is new? We played Ring Around the Rosie today, and Adora loved it! She laughs when we all fall down :)

I'm not sure what we were eating here, but it was obviously messy :) I love putting Adora's hair in pigtails, and I guess she's a little more amenable to it now than she used to be. Jake's favorite is two low pigtails in the back. Then, I use a bobby pin to pin the front hairs to the side, but she's started yanking the bobby pin out, so I may have to wait until her hair is longer and it all fits into the bottom pigtails to do that more often.

This is Adora and Preston! They met for the first time in Baton Rouge May 15 or 16, and then we went to Preston's home in Houston a couple of days after that. Adora LOVED the "be-be."

Ok, I hear her--she's awake! 2.5 hour nap, I got SO much done!

Pictures from Adora's second through eighth month

http://photos.walmart.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=128117004/a=16600883_16600883/otsc=SHR/otsi=SALBlink/

Pictures from Adora's first month

Pictures from Melanie Hostetler

I knew Adora was going to be a genius!

http://www.babycenter.com/204_morning-sickness-linked-to-smarter-babies_10312743.bc?scid=momstodd_20090428:2&pe=2UmnM8A

Splashpad May 2

The Splashpad is officially our favorite place in Montgomery.

My girl also painted MawMaw some pottery for Mother's Day! She liked using the sponge to paint better than just her hands.

THIS JUST IN! Adora now says "tickle" and "shoe." When I tell her it's time to put our shoes on, she sometimes will go get her shoes and either try to put them on herself or bring them to me to put on her.

Adora is still not sleeping. She went to sleep at 7:30 last night and woke up at 11:30. She was up until 1:30. She woke up again at 5:something for a few minutes and again at 6:15 for half an hour. She was up for good at 8:00. Needless to say, she was exhausted all morning. She took a nap at 12:30 and woke up at 1:10--whoopie, a whole 40 minutes! Mommy was not a happy camper today. THEN, she went to sleep at 6:30 tonight, woke up at 7:00 and was up until I caved and nursed her at 8:00. GRRR!

More of Montgomery

Adora is reading One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss in this video. At the end, she references an airplane (which is not in the story, haha). (4/29)

This weekend, we met Bethany, Anna Lei, and Jackson at a lake to feed the ducks (and geese, and fish, and turtles, and Adora). We had a good time walking around the park. (4/26)

Downtown Montgomery has a splash pad, an area that has a bunch of holes in the ground from which water spurts up. Adora went there with some friends Monday and had a blast! (4/27)

The base had a children's party today for kids of SOS students. The first activity was bubble blowing. Adora spent most of the time running away, as usual, but she did enjoy the bubbles for a bit. (4/29)

When we got back from the children's party, she played at the playground outside of our room (that is now cooled with a window AC unit--our room, not the playground). She really enjoyed getting in and out of this car, but she didn't really even try to move it and didn't really like it when I moved it :) (4/29)