Pootcakes and Sunshine

Ada is talking more and more every day. She uses complete sentences a lot of times and is very good at communicating what she wants. One of her best words is "pootcakes." She normally imitates words pretty clearly but for some reason, pancakes are pootcakes. This morning, as we were sitting at the breakfast table eating pootcakes, she saw Nolan down in our roommate's living area. She said, "No Nolan! Tum outta der. Jaime and Todd's room!" She continues to amaze us.

The other day Sam used the word Republican in a conversation with me and from the back of the car Ada started yelling, "Obama!" How she knew that both of those words are political and belong in the same conversation, I have no idea. She also started yelling, "Obama presdident!" at the front of the communion line at church this week. Bad timing. She doesn't know that we don't talk about politics in church :) I think it's just a fun word to say.

I was talking with her on the phone while she was at my parent's house. I asked her what her favorite color is and she said, "orange." I said, "you're a little Longhorn, aren't you?" She said, "Papa's pen!" and ran over to grab an orange Longhorn pen of my dad's that plays the Eyes of Texas. We realize we have to be very careful with what we say at this point cause this little genius doesn't miss much.

I always tell Ada that I love her. I say, "I love you SO MUCH." A couple of weeks ago, Sam was changing her diaper and she grabbed his hand and looked up to him and said, "Daddy...so much." I thought Sam was going to eat her up.

One of our favorite things that she does now is ask us to sing to her before we put her down for a nap or bed. First, she asks us to rock her. "Mommy rock!" And then she'll look up at whoever is holding her and rocking her and say, "Daddy...sunshine." And Daddy will sing, "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are gray. You'll never know dear, how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away."

We love you, sunshine! SO MUCH!