Journey to Parenthood: End of Summer Shenanigans

The days are shorter, the heat is backing off, but the shenanigans never cease! Things have been busy over here as Adalyn is preparing to walk and talk - she's mastered many sounds, including "mama", "dada", "teh" for the cats, and "neh" for Ninja ("p" is still a little hard to say for Peeper)...all at the speed of a baby cruising around the furniture and walls. Adalyn has really good control of her legs and can stand all by herself for around a minute now - she can even clap her hands or wave them around while standing!

Adalyn's also been playing peekaboo - she hides her face with her shirt or a curtain, and then, SURPRISE...a baby! She's starting to get too smart and cute for her own good!

As the summer is nearing an end, Adalyn's packing in all the shenanigans she can before the fall shenanigans commence.

Adalyn really enjoys watermelon...mmmm, watermelon.

"I meant for the watermelon to fall out of my hands as I was about to eat it...TADA!"

Adalyn is in deep concentrayshe as she artfully arranges the watermelon.

Adalyn analyzes watermelon's ability to go from a solid to a liquid with only slight changes in pressure...

Art is found in many forms, so Adalyn expands her repertoire into the kitchen...

With the help of her assistant, Adalyn shows off her unfinished masterpiece, L'escargot.

Adalyn continues work on her masterpiece using a new medium...blehhhh...

Adalyn contemplates the awesomeness that is L'escargot.

With the huge thunderstorms we've been getting lately (thunder and lightning and rain, oh my!), Adalyn decides that it's time she's prepared for when the diapers hit the fan.