Adelaide's Problem Solving & Language

Now that Adelaide has learned a lot more, there are some interesting and cute stories to tell:

1 -- Adelaide always runs into Tai Poh's (great grandma's) room and grabs something (usually something she's not supposed to have like TV remotes) then RUNS!

2 -- The other night, Adelaide went into Poh Poh's (grandma's) room to scope out the place and show grandma the sticker that was on her face. Afterwards, she came back outside to the living room to get her duck. She returned to poh poh's room and asked to trade her duck for a ruler on the bed. Poh poh said no since she still had to use it. Adelaide threw down the duck, grabbed the ruler, and RAN!

Yes... Adelaide knows that if she has something she's not supposed to and then runs - usually people are too lazy to chase after her for it. :) My mom's ruler is still missing.

3 -- Adelaide found some fuzz on the carpet and came to ask me to open the gate so that she could throw the fuzz away. I was comfy on the couch so I told her to go to the room and ask daddy to throw the fuzz away in his garbage can. Adelaide happily takes the fuzz into the room calling "Deh deh!" I hear her in the room going "hand, hand, hand" and a few seconds later, I see her holding P's hand dragging him out to open the gate for her to throw the fuzz away. If I had known she was going to drag him out of the room, I would have gotten off the couch!

4 -- In the mornings, my mom usually takes Adelaide so that I can sleep in for a couple more hours. Since I'm in the room, Adelaide's first diaper change is usually downstairs on the carpet at the base of the stairs with one of the diapers from the "going out" bag. One morning, P saw Adelaide take a teddy, put it on the carpet at the base of the stairs, and go into the "going out" bag for a new diaper - then attempted to put a diaper on the teddy!

5 -- I stand at the bottom of the stairs and call up to P to ask him to get me this or that or let him know that we're heading out. One day, I had just yelled up to P to let him know we were heading out and went to get something from the mudroom. (Usually the conversation goes as follows: "Hey P!!!" *wait for response, then get a response* "We're going out now!") When I'm in the mudroom, I hear Adelaide yell "P!!! P!!!! Pee-tah!!!!!!! P!!!!! Pee-tah!!" - I come back around the corner and she's looking up the stairs and yelling, exactly how I do it. I've been trying to get her to call out "Deh deh" so now the yelling is a mix of P, Pee-tah, and Deh deh.

6 -- The other day, Adelaide went to visit Timothy next door. In the report from P (since I wasn't around), it turned out Tim and Adelaide were jumping in the living room. Tim would actually jump and Adelaide would just crouch and stand up straight again while saying "One, Two, JUMP!"

7 -- The other day, I was in the kitchen and Adelaide brought in a ball of yarn. I noticed that the yarn had a tail behind it so I asked Adelaide for the yarn ball and started winding it up. I followed the yarn trail all the way back to the sweater grandma was sitting in her room knitting! It was a good 5 or so meters that Adelaide had brought the yarn out!

Not quite stories but are interesting is Adelaide's take to language.

• I have taught Adelaide to say "door open" so now every time she needs something open, door/gate/can/lid on cup, she says "dorpen!".
• We have a nursery rhyme book from the library that we've been singing with her and lately her new favourite is "5 little monkies". The way she asks us to start singing it is "mama? doct?" (As in "mama called the doctor...")
• Another song we sing together is "Itsy Bitsy Spider". (I sing itsy bitsy, P sing incy wincy - close enough!) Her prompt for this song is moving her fingers and say "itsy bitsy peter". I can never understand the first 2 words but the "peter" is quite clear - it's cause she know's P's name.
• Teaching manners to Adelaide has been kinda fun! We've taught her to sign and say "thank you". So far she'll put her hand to her mouth and say "Thanks" softly. It's very cute.
• I've also taught Adelaide to say "please". If I prompt her with "What do you say" or "How do you say that nicely" after a request, she signs and says a very sugary "Pwease?". If it's something she really wants, she'll say "*item*? Please? *nods* Yea. *nods*" Basically giving our response with her request :)
• Adelaide has definitely grown to like Timothy. Everyday, she'll usually ask for him or want to go visit him. We've taught her to say cuw foo (uncle) but she calls him "foo foo!" It's very cute watching Adelaide say "hand hand hand!" when she wants to hold his hand to walk somewhere. Though, Tim usually ignores her. :( He has yet to figure out how to fully interact with her.
• Depending how shy she feels, Adelaide usually waves and says "hi" to strangers. Now she's also gotten to a point where she'll say "bye" when we're leaving. It's usually a string of "bye bye, see you, *blows a kiss*" AFTER someone has already left... We're working on the timing thing.
• She's learned some of her numbers. Right now her counting goes like this: One, Too, Three, Five (she hasn't figured out four), Five (at which time, you need to give her 5), Six, Seven, Ten!

Those are the few things that have stuck out lately and are very fun to share :) Now time for bed and a big day of POD packing tomorrow. The new snow really sucks because it'll make it just that much harder to move stuff out to the pod.