Sick

As you all know, when Addie was a mere 7 weeks old, she was pretty sick and had to be admitted to the hospital. That ordeal was not a fun one, but thankfully, she's been pretty healthy since then! A case of pink eye that cleared up quickly, a fever one night that was fine in the morning, quite a few runny noses, but nothing that stopped her from being crazy, fiesty Adeline.

Well, despite going all winter without anything serious...she finally got bit by a bug. This weekend she started running a fever, and we thought she was doing better yesterday, but then this morning she woke in a pile of throw-up. Bathtime at 6am= no fun!

Today was strictly a pajama-day--with a lot of TV watching and eating crackers on the couch--two things that are not common in this household. She napped a total of 5 hours today, which on a normal day would make me jump for joy, but when she was awake and clearly not feeling well, there's no way I could rejoice. It's so hard seeing your child less than their usual self.

Here's Addie, sick and mudging on the couch:

Despite all the naps, she went to bed at her normal time and we're hoping that tomorrow she wakes up tomorrow happy and feeling much better. We'll keep you updated!


But onto brighter news: in the last month she has just become such a funny little girl! We taught her to "smile" on command and she'll comply with a huge, cheesy grin, such as:


and:


She's also really into imagination play and dress-up! If you had told me that this happened at just over a year, I wouldn't have believed you. But Addie loves to pretend to cook by stirring a spoon in a pot and shaking a (closed and plastic!) bottle of garlic salt into the pot, then pretending to eat from the spoon.

And pretty much every day, she will come up to us with some random article of clothing and ask us to put it on her by handing it to us and signing "more" (which also apparently means "do it."). And every so often she'll show up in the kitchen with her winter hat on acting as if it were totally normal...hi mom, can I have a snack--yeah I have my winter hat on, so what? It's SNACK time, sheesh.

Her favorite is her daddy's hat (there's that cheesy grin again):

And his winter gloves (note the necklace as well--these are on her a LOT, I'll even forget she's wearing them and zip up her coat and ship her off to a playdate or the store with a big plastic necklace on):


But why stop there? The other day, Addie was still in her PJs after breakfast and saw me folding laundry. She saw her valentines day dress and asked me to put it on her. So we did. Then she found a pair of shorts. Sure, why not? A hat to round out the ensemble?--but of course.

Please, no pictures! Yes, this is what I am wearing to the Oscars, it is an original "TarJay Banana"

She took the hat off to get serious and help Steve ski (skii?) on the Wii

When she's sick and when she's healthy, we are clearly...


...madly in love...


...with our daughter...


I leave you with a video clip with about 2 minutes of tickling/giggling/squealing fun. A lot of this goes on at the Silvestro house.

There's not much more to the video than that, but, really, it doesn't get better than the laughter of a child.