Look at this sweet little profile.... She was exhausted by the time - you can't run as hard as Adelyn does for very long without running out of steam. As challenging as Adelyn can be sometimes, she's very easy at naptime and bedtime. After playing hard, she's ready to get a little R&R!
Grandma Debbie got Adelyn a play hut - it can be a bus or a fire engine - this become her sanctuary when she got tired of being social. 
Adelyn was very methodical about opening her gifts - she tore the paper off in very small pieces.
I call this the redneck slide - it wasn't invented in KY either - Seth's family lives in Illinois. Adelyn is always up for some "aw, wee" (that's what she says when she goes down a slide or even sees a picture of one in a book). Seth held up one side of the bench and Adelyn slid down it - over and over again! 
Here's our little cobbler - before she opened her Christmas gifts, she played with some of the toys that belonged to some of her older cousins. :)I don't spend enough time documenting all of Adelyn's cuteness - the blog is a nice way for me to look back and recall some of the hillarious things she does. Kids change so fast that if you don't really savor a phase, it will be gone and forgotten until something causes it to come out of a dark corner in your mind. Anyway, Adelyn had really gotten into The Wiggles over the last few months. When I'm in the shower, I usually put something on the laptop for her to watch. After picking it up from Captain Feathersword, Adelyn has started saying "Blow me down!" It is so cute. She loves her babies, and she rocks them and pats them on the "bock". Again, very cute and sweet. She loves playing with "Meow", a gift from "Debbie" (she can't say Grandma yet, and I used to refer to her as Grandma Debbie - she says Debbie very well).
She loves cats and dogs. My mom has a cat. The other day she decided she wanted to go see "Nana". She said "Nana ... Meow" and gave Seth and I a very emphatic nod of her sweet little head.
She loves music and especially watching people sing. She refers to this as "waa waa", and she wants to see "waa waa" all the time. If the laptop is on the kitchen table, she'll go over to the chair, climb up in it, open the laptop and demand "waa waa". She loves the theme song to the King of Queens. Our girl is rarely still and quiet, but when that song comes one, she gives it her full attention and will clap and say "yay!" afterwards.
I know I'm leaving out tons of things that regularly make Seth and I laugh, but that's plenty for right now. I'm going to try to do better to document these little details as I'd hate to forget them.
Adelyn is a very determined, very busy, very sweet little girl. She's such a blessing to us, and being a parent with Seth has only made me love him more. He's the best daddy. Adelyn and I are blessed to have him.
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and I wish you all a blessed 2009!
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