Unplanned Nap
Today Adelaine turns six months old!
It was a year ago that Naomi and I were in New Brunswick for vacation and complications started with the pregnancy. The doctors initially told us that the unborn child likely will not survive.
One year later we are back in NB, but this time we are celebrating the six months of life of dear little Adelaine, our happy little baby!
The door to Ellie’s room is directly across from the bathroom door. Yesterday I was was washing my hands in the washroom after changing yet another diaper when I looked and saw Ellie trying to climb up the handles of her dresser. I sternly told her not to do that or she might hurt herself. She was not in the least upset at this rebuke. Instead she cheerfully walked over to me. I thought maybe she was going to give me a hug for watching out for her best interests. Instead she said, “Close the door,” and did just that.
Now with the bathroom door closed, I waited about ten seconds before opening it to catch her trying to climb up the dresser again.
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Super-ah-docious – the short Ellie version of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. The current favorite move of the week is Mary Poppins and Ellie will sometimes run around the house singing some of the songs. “Let’s Go Fly a Kite,” and “Spoonful of Sugar” are also heard around the house. Of course, the words aren’t always right..
The other day I came home from work and Naomi was busy preparing supper. She popped in Mary Poppins to keep Ellie out of trouble and I found Ellie holding on to Adelaine’s ears. I didn’t think the language in that movie was that bad..
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The distance between 1 and 10 keeps getting shorter. A month ago Ellie would always count “1, 2, 6, 7 …” Then she started skipping to eight (1, 2, 8, 9, 10) and has now dropped it. Now there are only the single digit numbers, 1, 2, and 9.
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Adelaine has taken her first steps towards her first steps. Last week Naomi laid her on the floor while visiting a friend and was surprised to discover her a minute later on her stomach! Her first time flipping over, and we didn’t even see it.
Adelaine is growing very fast. Average growth for her age is roughly half an ounce a day. Adelaine has been growing at twice that rate.. Look out Ellie, she will be bigger than you soon.
We suspect that Adelaine will be more social than Ellie. She behaves like that puppy in the window at the pet store.. doesn’t do much until someone walks by and then she is all coos and smiles in hopes of someone picking her up.
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Projected growth: The old saying is that you take a child’s height at two years old and double it and that is how tall they will be as an adult. Ellie was 34 inches tall, making her 5’6″! Her mom is 4’11”, me 5’9″.
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Today we moved Ellie from her crib to a mattress on the floor. She was very excited about her “big girl bed” when we brought it in the house.. she made it difficult to make the bed as she wanted to lay on it and squirm.
We were wondering if we would be able to get her to nap on it this afternoon when we noticed that the house was quiet.. I investigated to make sure there wasn’t any trouble brewing and discovered that Ellie had already drifted off to sleep on her new bed.
Awhile ago Naomi bought twin size sheets for a different purpose. When we dug them out to put on Ellie’s bed we realized that they are the exact same colour as the walls! Just so you know that it wasn’t done on purpose..
Daddy tucking her in for the first time on a real bed
Saying evening prayers
In the last week Ellie has learned two important names. She now occasionally refers to Adelaine as “Andennn” instead of just “baby”. The other name is more important.. She now identifies a certain man in some of her books as “Jesus”. This is a name we pray she becomes very familiar with and says throughout eternity as her Savior!
If you ask Ellie who the silly goose is, she will dutifully point to herself and say “sill goose”.
Ellie’s vocabulary of essential phrases continues to grow. While running around the house at top speed being a silly goose she may say “so fast” repeatedly. Or she may respond to you with an affirmative “okey dokey” or a “yes siree”. Sometimes she also says “ohhh! Daddy burp.”
Other recent photos can be seen at www.flickr.com/photos/johnstonekids/
In today’s episode of Mythbusters, Jamie and Adam explore the reports that Adelaine looks just like Ellie did at that age. After a quick comparison of photos of when they were one month old, the Mythbusters announce their results..
MYTH BUSTED! or MYTH CONFIRMED!
What do you think?
