"Let Me In"

The date: Last Wednesday January 21st.
The time: 5:30 a.m.
The scene: I'm awake, but barely. I'm getting read to get in the shower. The bathroom door is closed and the light is on. No other lights are on in the house. The shower is running and the exhaust fan too, so it's a little noisy.

From behind the door I hear a faint voice. A little boy voice. "Let me in. Let me in. Let me in."

I opened the door to find him laying on the floor with his mouth pushed under the crack in the door. "Let me in, Dada."

I put him into bed with his Mama and he went back to sleep.

No I want to roll.

I just got this hilarious email from Ade's Mommy. Here's the full text:

Ade says to me "oh honey" and I said "honey?" and then he said yeah,
"honey bucket"...Nice. Now all day I am called honey bucket. Also,
he was rolling his ball and I said "do you want to rock?" and he said
"no I want to roll".

LOL.

Now, I want to roll.

Peace.

A new year

Well, we made it through Christmas. Ade had just about as much fun as a little boy could have. When we celebrated at his maternal great-grandparents, the Holtmeiers (Hopameiers -- as Ade calls them), place on Saturday he quickly and oftly reminded everyone that "No! It's not christmas," with a very stern look. Though, once he figured out what was going on and started opening his presents, he didn't really mind. The family played a game of "Yankee Swap" and ate a delicious brunch, while Ade took the pictures.








On Christmas Eve, we went to Nana and Papa Williams for prime rib dinner and presents. Then, we exchanged gifts and enjoyed the merriment, and facial hairiness; good holiday fun. The most prized item, among the many great gifts Ade got, was a cool Thomas the tank engine train set...He loved, and continues to love it.







On Christmas morning we went over to Grams and Gramps Patterson's place, for MORE gifts and MORE merriment. On the way there, Ade asked: "I open presents?" Yeah dude, more presents! After exchanging gifts, we had another delicious prime-rib meal. We coached Ade for several days leading up to Christmas....if you ask him "Who's birthday is on Christmas?" He'll quickly tell you "Baby-Jesus' birthday." Pretty cute.

When the festivities at the Patterson's had waned, we ventured back across town to Nana's house for the DeWilde Christmas-travaganza. But what would we be eating, certainly we haven't had enough sustenance for more celebration? How about, another prime-rib dinner? This time with a spiral cut ham to wash to it down. The food was good. Needless to say, after three prime rib meals in two days, we were...full Ade got a few more thoughtful gifts...and the family played "Yankee Swap" with DVDs. Much fun was had by all. Finally, we fell into a over-proteinized coma; completely Christmassed out.

For the New year we travelled to Leavenworth with Oma, Opa, Grams and Gramps. We had to stay an unplanned evening in Bellevue because the pass was closed due to bad weather and avalanche conditions. The next day we made it to Leavenworth and enjoyed the quaint bavarian charm, good German food, and sleigh rides in the snow.

That catches us up to now. Check back, and take care.

Snow Daze

This post finds Ade in his fifth day (I think) with snow on the ground. Which is pretty much heaven for Ade because, in case you didn't remember, he loves snow. It started out with just a little:

That same day we figured out that snow turns into water.

The next day we had a lot more snow!


And it's snowing again today, five days from the start. Adam's Daddy has been home from school for the last days because of inclement weather! Yeah! How does Ade like the snow?


Peace.

Decorating for Christmas

Making the gingerbread hous and decorating the Christmas tree. Very exciting stuff.

So, what else is new? Everything is still "Why?" and Ade is 99.99% potty trained. Hadn't had an accident in WEEKS until he had a little accident in bed the other night.

Ade has taken an interest in photography, i.e. "I take a picture, Dada?". Here is a few of his first shots...the only coaching was "Point it, and press this button....Don't drop it, okay buddy?" Some nice shots, some disturbing ones...who is that grinning idiot in the last picture? Anyway...









Peace for now.

Wii Bowling

Ade really likes playing "Tendo" with his Dad. He is actually VERY good at Wii Golf, considering he's only 2 and a half. He regularly hits bogeys and double bogeys with the occasional par thrown in. It's a lot of fun.

This video shows him playing Wii Bowling..."Let Go!"

Peace.

1...2...3...4...5...

I almost forgot...








Ade counts alot...he's been doing it for a while. He easily counts up to 5 to number different objects, it takes longer to get his fingers to contort into the "shape" of the numbers, but as you can see from the photos, he does that too.

Upon request he can go as high 10...no problem. He even started at 6 and made it up to 15 once. His math-teacher dad was pretty proud.

Peace.