Addison loves to play chase and hide and seek. She calls a game of chase a race, but the whole point is to chase after her and grab and tickle her. Hide and seek consists of her seeking every time. She is really good about staying in the next room until I finish counting to three, even if the room is dark. She is not that great about staying focused for the seeking. She walks around repeating "where's Mama?" until I give myself away because I am afraid she is getting scared or upset and I don't want her to cry.
One of Addison's favorite past times is watching herself. She figured out how to scroll through the pictures/videos on my phone and how to play them. I used to have to hide my phone because any time she would see it she would pick it up and bring it to me repeating "watch Addison" again and again until I gave in. She does the same thing with "Mommy's puter" (computer) too. She is really into repeating herself and will say the same thing or ask the same question over and over and over again, it doesn't matter if I answer or not.
Addison gives wet kisses. I love them even though I get slobber on my face. I have always tried to be discreet about drying off after said toddler kisses. Others are not so good at hiding the face wipe so Addison learned that it was funny to wipe off kisses. Some days we turn it into a game. I give her kisses and she stares me down, wipes off the kiss and waits for the wrath. The wrath is my kissing her all over again and again after which she wipes again and we repeat. Recently when I kiss her she has started giving me a more serious look and telling me how she will not wipe off my kiss. It makes me melt!
Some things I have come to realize at almost twenty-six months of age: Addison is nowhere near being ready to potty train. Even though she peed in her potty for a month or so, every time she took a bath, it is a struggle to get even that out of her these days. She is perfectly happy playing for hours in her own dirty diapers without a thought about it.
With the addition of baby #2 in July I had considered moving Addison to a toddler bed, but after doing some reading I decided she is not ready for that either. She has never tried crawling in or out of her crib, so why would I enable her to leave her room in the middle of the night or early in the morning? That would be foolish of me!
Addison's favorite food is blueberries. She asks for them constantly. She loves them in yogurt, oatmeal, muffins, pancakes or just plain. She will not eat frozen blueberries. She will not eat anything that is too cold. When she recently had a fever I bought her strawberry popsicles, but she would not touch them.
Past antics:
January:
I am not the best at keeping a clean house. I am trying to be better, but I do not always put away dishes after meals. Sometimes her leftover breakfast will sit on the table until after dinner. Addison likes to point that out to me by pointing to said dishes and exclaiming "Old (insert food name)!"
Addison and I drive around town and at each stoplight I ask her what the color of the light means. I will say "Green means..." and she will say "GO" and when I ask about red she will say "Stop!" Sometimes when we came upon a green light she would say stop. It took me awhile to realize she was talking about the brake lights on all the cars in front of us.
