Our little Jadee Lady is growing up! She is really turning into a little girl lately. The other day I was just looking at her from a distance and she is no longer a baby. She is losing her chubby face and growing taller every day it seems. She is getting more hair each day and it is super curly. It reminds me of my little sister's hair, perfect little ringlets all over when wet and then as it dries it does this sort of curly/wavy thing. Most days I can get something in her hair but it only lasts a couple minutes until she figures out how to get it out!
One of the cutest things she has started recently is when we are saying our prayers, she will squint her eyes shut but her head is still up and fold her arms. I wish I had a picture because it is just about all I can do to not laugh each time. It is so precious to see her like this. The other day I even caught her in the middle of her lunch, push her plate to the side, fold her arms and mumble her own little prayer. She says a big booming "amen" at the end and then continued eating her food. So cute! We have been working so hard on her saying amen at the end of prayers and yesterday in church she said it nice and loud for everyone to hear each time someone would say amen, and to top it all off it was fast and testimony meeting, so there were a lot of amens! Let's just say I heard lots of muffled chuckles behind us during the meeting!
Jadee loves to be the center of attention and will imitate most everything we do. Yesterday I was just letting out a sigh of frustration at something she did and immediately she made the same sound and stomped around the room. I need to be really careful as she does everything I do now! She is a big climber and finds anything and everything to climb on.
She now has 14 teeth with the most recent ones to come in being her eye or kanine teeth on the bottom. Poor kid, they would bleed when we brushed them because they were so poky and her gums so irritated! I am sure not a big fan of this teething thing, hopefully we are almost done for awhile because it has been constant since January when she started getting all four molars at once.
She is such a fun loving, care free kid. Most days she can be found running around laughing or getting into mischief. When she is caught doing something she should not be doing, she will still say "hi" or get this sad look on her face. She understands most everything we say and will now go and get us things we ask for, like baby's diaper or blanket, or her shoes, etc.
She loves anything Elmo and will now actually sit and watch almost a full episode of sesame street. She has never been a big movie or TV show fan, which is great in a way but I do love that she is getting a longer attention span.
Jade can point to alot of things and knows what they are called or sounds they make. The other day Ben was reading an alphabet book to her and as he would say an object, she would point it out on the page. We were super impressed because some things we did not think she had seen very often and we knew we had not pointed them out. She picks up on everything and has such a great memory. One example was, we have never flown a kite or pointed one out to her, but when she saw a picture of one she knew exactly what it was and said the word. All we can figure is that one time she saw Uncle Tommy flying a kite when we were at their house and she remembered it. Another example is the other day when she was playing in her sandbox, there were some bees that kept buzzing over her head and around the tree. When she heard one she would immediately look up, point to it, say "bee" and then make the buzzing sound. She even tried to stand up and catch them at one point until I carefully instructed her that that would not be a great idea!
She no longer really poses or smiles for pictures. In fact she turns completely away from you if you pull the camera out and ask her to smile. So most pics we have to sneak unless she is in a super cooperative mood. Hopefully the days of smiling for pictures will return soon!
She loves to be outside just playing and exploring. She could stay all day out there if we let her.
This shot was super funny because I had just asked her to sit and give me a big smile, and this is what I got......
She was supposed to look up at me, but again, this is what she interpreted posing as....
She can always be found with a "pretty" in her hair, if she puts it there, and something in her mouth. Most often it is one of the baby's toys or her fingers.
This was a rare shot when I asked her to smile and she actually did. Kind of goofy but hey I am not complaining at least she smiled!
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