Tuesday, May 28

27 Months

Ada likes to count to 10 and does so consecutively. She will line up her toys or count images in a book. She loves to dress herself (head to toe) and doesn’t really want help unless she gets stuck. We also moved her to a toddler bed and it has been working well so far. She likes to play with her toys for a little while before bed and grab a few more to play with in bed.

Ada has been adding more words to her vocabulary and lengthening her sentences. She often uses the word “like” as a comparison when she sees something familiar. If she sees a stranger mowing the lawn, she will say “mowing the lawn like Daddy.” When my parents were visiting she began using the word “anymore” for “I’m not tired anymore,” or “I’m not hungry anymore.” She really is starting to understand new and many concepts and it’s fun for us to see this :)

The neighbor cat, Spicy, still comes over almost every day to visit and play with Ada.

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Monday, May 13

Tulips

My parents came up for 9 days in April to keep me company while Todd was working in Arizona. One of our special outings was visiting the Tulip Festival, a first for my parents and Ada. We paid to gain entrance to the RoozenGaarde tulip fields and display gardens and wow, what a beautiful place! You can also buy their tulips but then I realized it would take 1/4 million bulbs to pull off the same look :)

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Tuesday, May 7

Snails!

Ada loves nature, especially looking for bugs. She enjoys flipping over rocks and bricks to find worms, rolly-pollies, beetles, slugs and snails. Ada could spend all day doing this. I am glad she enjoys God’s creation even if it is a little gross and slimy at times :)

We collected a few snails from around the garden one day. The next day we found even more. I think we got most of them now (it’s been several weeks) :)

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