la dolce vita: October 2012

29.10.12

flower garden gnome

I took Adelaide to my office Halloween Party last weekend ~ as you can see, my job spares no expense when they do events for us! Adelaide had a blast in the bounce house (set up in one of our conference rooms), got to decorate halloween cookies, go 'fishing' in a little kiddie pool (she also tried to go swimming in it too, which explains the absence of half her costume in some of the photos) and get her face painted. She had an absolute blast running all over the place and was well worn out by the time we left - well worn out from playing, but also from running full speed into the glass wall on the vestibule :-/....I've seriously considered putting a helmet on her lately...

Little Flower Garden Gnome (she refuses to wear the hat, which is of course, the best part)

checking out the spider

fishing

slipping and sliding around the bounce house in her tights

getting her face painted by Sparkles the clown ~ she also got to get glitter in her hair :)

checking out Sparkle's job on the face painting...

holding Mr Bixby

playing in the beaded closet cover (a popular kid attraction at the office)

this is Adelaide's playmate at Zia & Zio's (my coworker's daughter)

tickling 'baby betty'

it was a good time and someone was oh so sleepy!

27.10.12

ABC's

26.10.12

snippets of her

Hodgepodge of Adelaide-isms I don't want to forget....

‘Yah, sure’ in valley girl voice

Going down the stairs by herself, sits on the bottom stair, then runs ('so fast') out the door to the car – I love watching her little body run down the driveway to the garage.

Dresses herself & puts on her own shoes – ‘my do’ – does not like me to help her. Very independent. Isn’t too bad at it either, although she's spent a few days in inside out & backwards clothes, pretty amazing.

Woke up to her saying ‘momma’…’I love you’...then dozing back to sleep. I now wake up to her saying 'momma, wake up! wake up! i want out!'

love when she just stops, looks at me and says ‘hi momma’...although for some reason, she's recently taken to calling me mommy...

holds up the palm of her hand and says ‘I be right back’

ketchup = ‘cha-hup’ she loves it on everything (in true Liptak fashion). Caught her dipping her cucumbers in it.

'have it, have it' while holding out her hand when she wants something. She likes to sit on the back of the toilet and watch me get ready in the morning and likes to put on deodorant too.

i love the way she says thank you {thay-ang-ku!}

‘I big girl’

Loves to watch ‘mittie mouse’

Enjoys eating crayons, and likes to stick any small object in her mouth – I can remember sitting underneath the dining room table as a child eating crayons – why??? I also remember swallowing a penny I was playing with…

Knows the colors of the rainbow, but will answer ‘pink’ (with confidence) to any question color related or not. She can count to 11 – we'll count together sometimes, I will say one, then she’ll say two, etc. fourteen always follows eleven, so we're working on that.

She is fearless. Will go on the highest slide and lean over the edge of the tallest platform on the jungle gyms at the park. She’s a little monkey too.