I'm Still Here

What happened to my posting? It went from 30 or more posts a month to less than ten! Well, not to use a cliche, but we've been... busy.

We've always been busy, and I've always cut corners somewhere because of it. Now the corner is the blog.
It's been kinda hard to blog because of all the changes Blogger is making. I used to upload photos to Shutterfly.com and drag and drop them into my posts. I used Shutterfly because I didn't like how small the images on Blogger were back then. But it was an extra step, so when Blogger raised their image size limit, I went back to uploading my photos straight to the blog.
There I encountered more problems. The new method didn't put the photos straight into the post, but rather kept them in a pop-up that you had to click to open. But if my browser crashed, or the kids closed something, the images didn't get saved. I lost a couple of posts like that and wasn't motivated enough to go search out the images again to rewrite the post.
Now they changed the upload method again, but it rotates all my photos! I have to go to my image editor and rotate the images I want to use to the left- so that when Blogger rotates them to the right, it works out. Whew. That was one more responsibility I didn't need. On top of it all, only one (out of ten) photos I wanted to put in this post actually managed to load.
So here it is.

I will switch back to good old Shutterfly and hopefully everything will go smoothly again.

In other news, Adi has a few new words:

Down

On

Hello

Hat

Hot

Hug

Finished

Probably more. I have to remember more. "Down" she learned when we were walking outside hand in hand. Whenever I wanted to pick her up, she yelled, "Up! Up!" She wanted to go DOWN, so I asked, "Down, Adi? You want to go down?" And after several times, she repeated, "Dine? Dine? Dine!"

She brings me any shoes she can find and says, "On!" It sounds like, "Ine!"

"Hello" is an old one. She takes a phone to her ear and says, "Ah-woe?" She also forces me to say hello into the phone for up to five minutes non-stop. LOL

Hat... "At!" She loves hats, and if she finds one on the floor (a fire helmet, police hat, yarmulka, or her own outside hat, she will insist everyone in sight take turns putting it on. That's why I am often seen walking around with a construction hardhat  at home.

Hug! Adel is a snuggle bunny, and is giving me hugs as I type. She presses against you and says, "Hock" while patting you on the back. Hugs are often followed by exaggerated kisses.

The sign for finished is brushing hands together. She does some approximation of the sign and says, "Nee-new!" Sometimes she also says, "Na moo!" (No more!)


So that's Adel's vocabulary update. I have so much more to write about, but I must run to pick up Zusha from cheider. Hopefully soon I will share lots of photos, news, and everyday happenings!
Oh... one last bit of Adi news. She will be getting orthotics! These are braces that go into her shoes. They are ankle-high, with straps in the front. I'm excited to see what it will do for her walking, because after that initial heart-stopping moment, she has walked on her own two or three times. She enjoys walking hand in hand but isn't doing it alone at all. So we'll see!