So another month went by and radio silence on Ade's blog. I would like to blame the fact that I am busy. That nothing has happened. That life has just been the same o same o. It really has been anything but and well, I just haven't been on the computer.
I would love to put funny updates and things that happened. Very thankful for Facebook as I usually post there and I will have to go back and write down all the things Ade says to me and have a running post for that. She truly is hilarious and every day does something more cute and sassy than the day before. I wish I had an app on my phone for this blog and I could just plug it in as it happens. I take a lot of videos and as tech savvy as I think I am, I cannot figure out how to upload them on this site. I take that back, I can but then when people try to view them, there is an error. Hmph. I guess I should research that.
But back to Adriana and the month of April. The reason we are here. She has been growing and having the time of her life these last few months. She has come out of her shell a bit and made a lot of friends in preschool, as well as the mom's group I belong to, and while it is a work in progress, she is working on sharing and being nice to others. In fact, lately, she has been so nice that the minute another child tells her they no or that they don't want to play, it results in many a tears and cries (and loud screams. Un nerving! Can anyone tell me how to make this stop?) I wish I could get her somewhere in the middle of completely mean, stay away from me and falling apart if someone doesn't agree with her. Awwww parenting!!!
This year for Easter (or the weekend before) we went to Adriana's Grandpa John and Grandma Chicken's house in Fort Collins. Last year they had a big Easter Egg Hunt for all the grandkids and it was so much fun they did it again this year. I am very glad they did as Adriana asked about it several times when she learned Easter was near. As always, we had a blast! She enjoyed finding eggs and loved playing with all her cousins. We spent Easter day at my sister's house where Ade was showered with a ridiculous amount of Easter candy. When all is said and done, I think we got more candy for Easter this year than Halloween. Insane!
We also went to the first Rockies game of the season in April for my birthday. It was freezing and windy that I thought for sure we wouldn't be there longer than 10 minutes. Like her momma, Adriana loves Coors Field as much as I do. Although for different reasons. They have a kids play ground that she loves. We stayed a while and had a blast. She got to meet Dinger and get his autograph. We stood in line to meet him, and the closer we got to him, the more afraid she got. I had to hold her for the picture we took with him. He is very big and very purple. :) But from afar, she thinks he is great.
The only other major thing that happened in April was the lack of sleep throughout the Etch house. Ade started getting up multiple times in the night and decided sleeping between the hours of 2 and 5 a.m. was not going to happen. This resulted in no one in the family getting sleep. We tried to break this cycle for a couple weeks. Usually it gets better but it just kept getting worse. No one in our house was sleeping. We all were exhausted and I was at my wits end. Which made trying to transition her back to sleep even worse. No patience mommy is not a lot of fun. And very tired and sassy 3 year old is not too fun either. We finally had to put a sleeping bag on our floor and tell her that she could come in the middle of the night and sleep in it if she doesn't wake us up. I even got desperate enough to take her to the doctor and make sure nothing was wrong with her. She definitely has allergies but this was something else. We went through the scared phase, sick phase and just flat out defiant phase all in April. Rob and I went out of town for the weekend at the end of April and I am pretty sure we slept 3/4 of the weekend. But the sleeping bag worked and she now has a mattress on our floor. As I type, I can feel judgment, and believe me, I vowed that my child would never sleep in my room. But when you haven't slept for a month, you do things you normally wouldn't. She goes to sleep in her own room and transitions to our in the middle of the night, sometimes earlier. It is quiet, she doesn't wake us and for now that is all Rob and I can ask for. We will worry about the rest later.
That is about it. Hopefully I will keep up a little better from here on out...
