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1. Jodi Speaks Her Mind » Blog Archive » Life…at full speed (April 24th, 2006 at 10:03 am )

   [...] Adelina now has favorites, which of course change periodically. Her favorite colors are yellow and purple (and occasionally pink, but not often). Her favorite meat is sandwich turkey. Her favorite activity is swimming (or trying to swim) at the pool. She continues to show strong social tendencies and enjoys visiting with the neighbors and making new friends. She made a new friend at her afternoon school the other day just by boldly walking up to a little girl and putting her hand in the other girls hand and guiding her up onto the play equipment. Anyone who has ever thought this girl is shy is wrong - she is so not shy! She now loves to climb trees, she can swing so high she makes the swingset shake, she makes beautiful watercolor paintings (see also Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, and Part VI - links are in the site), knows most of her alphabet, is trying to count objects to ten, but still has trouble with this. She has recently mastered the “wh- question” facial expression and uses it whenever she doesn’t want to answer a question and sometimes just at random.  She is incredibly goofy a LOT of the time! It is funny how everyone always comments about how much Adelina looks like Steve and I. The truth will be revealed in the summer, though, because this girl tans so easily and naturally. She is a lovely, smooth, brown already, and Steve and I will remain a pale, freckled white. Oh well, we’ll just call her our gypsy girl in the summers. [...]

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