22 Months. 2 Months shy of 2! We’re all having a blast at this age. She’s funny, playful, serious and smart. She makes us laugh all the time, we’re starting to see a little girl emerge out of a little baby and I’m stuck wondering when it all happened! 
She loves to play now. Like really play. 
FOOD I wouldn’t say Adele is a picky eater… she just doesn’t like to eat, period. A few bites at each meal and she’s done. We keep offering and switching it up, but sometimes she just isn’t having it. Nothing new in terms of food this month. Same likes/dislikes. Same aversions to textures. And she still doesn’t love to chew her food. She’d live off of applesauce and yogurt if we’d let her! 
But we have learned she LOVES spicy food. Hot sauce, chili sauce, soy sauce… and ketchup. Always ketchup. 
SLEEP Still a rockstar in this department. 7:30p-7:30a (sometimes later) most days. (We had a week where she was waking up at 6:30a but then it went back to normal again. Naps for 1-2 hours/day….or not at all. Daycare told us she sometimes skips a nap altogether, and when she does sleep, she’s always the last one to go down. ha. 
Still sleeps with puppy, blankie, a pillow and a million animals. Last weekend, I put her down for what I thought was going to be an afternoon nap… but an hour later, I snuck in and saw this…. not sleeping after all! 
Apparently the “books Adele shouldn’t play with” shouldn’t be on the top shelf anymore! 
THE STATS Weight = 24 Pounds Height = Unknown, but definitely grew taller a bit this month. Diapers = Between a size 3 and 4…. Shoes = 4 Clothes = Tops 18-24 Months now… Bottoms 18 Months 
For the first time ever, she’s started to show an interest in what she’s wearing. This one cracked me up the most though. She wanted to wear her feetie fleece pajamas over her clothes… she she walked around with one foot in and one foot out for a while. haha 
She’s starting to show her independent side more and more, but is still proving to be a pretty mellow kid. She has her moments, but they are always short lived and easily distractible. Here’s to hoping this is a trend that continues all the way to three! 
And now for my favorite photo of month 22: 
My two loves. xoxo
Adele: 22 Months April 26, 2014
Happy Easter!!! April 18, 2014
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Equinophobia: Is it hereditary? April 8, 2014
I’ve had a fear of horses for years. It’s irrational, I know, but you couldn’t pay me to ride a horse now. The last time I did, over ten years ago, my horse jumped up and I ended up walking a few miles back to the base while someone else pulled my horse. haha
Well, it appears my daughter has inherited this fear as well… we brought her to the Griffith Park Merry-Go-Round this weekend and this picture pretty much sums up that experience:
The Merry-Go-Round is 75 years old and still looks the same as it did way back then! It’s really cool to ride actually. But she was so scared, I felt so bad!
Get me outta here!
Truthfully, I think the music is creepier than the horses. It’s old-fashioned carnival music. It fits the ride perfectly, but it’s really loud and ‘scary-clown’ scary for sure. haha
Even though she didn’t love it while we were riding, for the rest of the day she talked about how the horses went “up and down”.
Feeling braver now that she’s on the other side of the fence. ha!
Well, baby’s first merry-go-round experience… time will tell if there will be a second!
California Science Center April 7, 2014
Yesterday, we ventured down to the California Science Center to enjoy some time with Adele. We started the day with breakfast with our friends Melissa & Robb and their daughter Claudia! She and Adele have been friends since the womb! We did prenatal yoga together. It’s so cute to watch them play together.
They kept each other on their best behavior and we all enjoyed a relaxing meal al fresco. Nothing better!
After breakfast, we said goodbye and headed to the museum. We hoped Adele would nap in the car on the way there, but she sang the whole way down. Our plan B was to bring the Ergo and Stroller, walk around and then maybe she’d nap on one of us while we explored some more….but we were silly to think that, she was WAY too excited to sleep! I mean, there are fish!
The kelp forest is awesome. Lots of fish and sharks! And even a tube you can walk through. Toddler approved!
At one point, i just sat on the edge, with Adele in my lap, and we sat together talking about the colors of the fish, and the size of the sharks. And we watched the fish swim ‘up, up up’ and ‘down down down’. I enjoyed it so much. The Science Center is free and I foresee us spending lots of time with the fish in the future!
I can’t get enough of pony tail silhouettes!
We had to literally drag her away from the tank, she loved it! We also saw some Turtles, mice, lizards and birds! There were so many other exhibits to visit, but we will have to save those for another day. We didn’t want to overwhelm her, and she was already pushing her limits without a nap.
But we did sneak in a little ‘toddler’ town action first. Check this out, it’s a ‘sand box’ but instead of sand or rocks, it was made out of shredded rubber tires! If I ever have a backyard, I’m getting a truck load of this stuff, it was awesome! And I loved their additions of vegetables to go hunting for! So healthy and cute.
We thought for sure she’d sleep in the car on the way home after all that stimulation! But alas, no dice. We waved the white flag and hung around the house for a couple of hours when we got home. Then we decided to squeeze in one last errand of the day and within 2 minutes of the drive… she was out. Yep. We’re officially ‘those parents’. The ones who swore we’d never resort to driving to get our child to sleep. We enjoyed a blissfully quiet ride and then i sat in the car for an hour checking email while Irving meandered around Costco. All in all… the perfect day full of friends, family… and finally, a nap. =)
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