"They grow up so fast..."

Everyone says so and everyone is right. Ada has such a big personality these days. She laughs at us when we make funny faces and she screams at the top of her lungs when she gets bored...which is often. She's not even mad a lot of the time, she just likes to scream for attention. She loves to go places and see things and people. She loves to be in the Baby Bjorn facing out when I go to Whole Foods so that everyone can smile at her and stop to talk to her and tell her how beautiful she is. She hates being stuck in the back seat of the car all by herself. She's a social one, for sure. We have a bedtime routine that we stick to religiously and she responds the same way every night. She loves her bath, especially now that her Meme got her some flashing ducks to go in the water with her. She doesn't like to be dried off and she always screams when I put lotion on her (she's just like her Daddy there--he hates lotion) and she hates when I put clothes on her. She prefers to be naked. Too bad it's so cold!

She's so much fun right now. I love being with her. I'm so glad that I have the opportunity to spend so much time with her. Thank you, Sam, for making sacrifices with me so that I can have the job that I do and so that I can be home most of the time. We may never have much money, but I'm so happy.