4 Months and Counting!

Well I gained another month and somehow lost my neck...

"I Want Vacation!"

For our 4-yr. Anniversary, we decided to load up the gang and get out of the city for the weekend. We headed 2 hrs. north to Guerneville, off the Russian River. Here Adeline goes for a stroll with Dad in a redwood forest. Her first words out of the car were, "Where's the swings?" She's such a city girl! We had been promising her a "vacation", which apparently she misunderstood as a tangible object that she was going to receive on the trip. One over-tired afternoon she broke down crying, "I want vacation!".
Cooper and Adeline getting cozy before bed in the cabin we rented. Adeline was excited to use her "travel bed" which is a toddler-sized airbed. Cooper slept like a champ in his pack-n-play.
Since October marks the beginning of the off-season, we had the beach virtually to ourselves. Adeline practices her stone skipping. Watch out for those ducks!

In Stitches

"It's only a matter of time," we'd say about our active 2-yr-old. We knew we'd soon see the day when we took that first ER trip. Well, the time had come. Adeline took a tumble into the side of a door and split her forehead wide open. (Slippers should have tread on the soles, right?). So we grabbed the family and headed to St. Lukes just down the street. She was an absolute champion! Waiting so patiently while coloring and inquiring about all of the other patients. The doctor told her he had to stitch her head and he even showed her the needle explaining that he was going to sew her wound closed like mommy sews clothes. She shook her head and let him do the work without even shedding a tear. The parents, on the other hand...
Days prior to the door incident, Adeline stuck her thumb into the straw-hole in her beverage lid. This was no ordinary flimsy plastic lid! Unfortunately we were in transit from Mel's diner to our house when it happened. Luckily, she found the humor in the situation and waited until we got home to let Mom cut it off (the lid, not the thumb).

Slathered Up

Yep, it's naptime and yep, that's Desitin slathered all over Adeline's arms. Ah, the horror, but wait, let me get a quick picture before I tell you "that's not funny".