So much fun. I looked back at my blog entries from when Adessa was this age, and she was this much fun, too. Eliana's trying to talk, these days, and carries on long conversations of gibberish complete with appropriate facial expressions and hand gestures. She mugs for the camera, and tries to do whatever Adessa is doing. The cutest is climbing. She'll have her hands above her head holding onto a table or something, but will still try to get her little leg up so she can climb like Adessa. Awww.
She's earned her "Indian Name": Little Big Teeth
This isn't the best photo of Eliana, but I've been trying to capture her fast sprouting upper teeth. They came out of nowhere a few weeks ago and are now hard to miss.
I am enjoying both the girls so much more these days, not sure if it just really does take ONE YEAR to get used to two kids, or if Eliana is so much easier now, or if Adessa is passing through her terrible-twos and threes faster, or what. But its nice to feel kind of normal about having kids, instead of the all-consuming overwhelmed state I've been in. Much better.
Adessa is fun! She is delightful often--telling stories, asking questions, taking care of Eliana, making up songs, pretending to read. We've been doing evening prayers with her, and she is very thoughtful about considering the needs of people we know to pray for. I love that! She comes up with some funny ones, though, like wanting to pray for my watch that broke. I guess God could heal my watch if He wanted to, but we talked about how God gives us the resources to buy ourself a new battery.
We went with my middle school students on a field trip to a local CSA farm, and Adessa was ready for it in her rain boots. That girl had a FABULOUS time plodding through the many mud puddles, and my students had fun watching her,( wishing they had rain boots). The tour ended in the strawberry patch, and we were able to pick a few strawberries. Which made for a really cool moment of near-perfect bliss. It was beautiful, the farm overlooked the ocean, Eliana and Adessa stood in our little strawberry row and were so captivated by the gorgeous strawberries, right there in front of them, and the bugs and birds, and picking and eating berries with juice running down their faces. They both kept checking in with me, enraptured, like: "Is this for real?".
Adessa on the farm.
Kicking at the mud. I kept trying to get down and get a good picture of her, but was wearing Eliana and had difficulty. I think this was the best one? Then the camera went back into the car so I could walk and feed snacks and hold hands, so no pics of the strawberries on my camera. I hold the bliss, though, it was balm to my soul.
