Ah, That Adriana

Adriana is quite a character. Like many toddlers who have been indoctrinated by Nursery (or even sometimes, gasp, Barney, although for my sanity we don't watch that show in our house), Adriana seems to be incapable of cleaning up unless she or someone else is singing the "clean up song." However, she sings it slightly differently than the way I learned it. Her version goes like this:

Clean up, clean up

Everybody, everywhere.

Clean up, clean up

Everybody do my share. (Instead of "everybody do your share.")

We’re not sure if she’s doing it intentionally or if she’s just mixed up the words, but this is Adriana so I think she's probably very aware of what she's doing. We really do need to get her some music lessons. Almost since she could talk she’s been making up songs, and for at least the past year she’s been able to take songs she knows and put in her own words (usually with the ends of lines rhyming). She now takes familiar songs and adds syncopation and some pretty complex variations to them, and she’s able to match pitches when someone else is singing (or we’ll sing the first line of a song and she’ll come in perfectly on pitch and make up her own silly ending, usually rhyming with what we said). She’s definitely something else.

The other day Adriana decided she was hungry and didn't want to wait for me to come in to make breakfast. This is what Kenny found:

Yes, that was a new box of cereal from inside our child-locked pantry (child-proof lock now broken). And yes, the milk that had been poured in the bowl and on the table meant that we couldn't salvage the cereal.

We're also past the days of being able to say "Smile for the camera!" and end up with a good picture (thankfully Miriam is still my super-smiley baby when the camera comes out). This is what I got when I asked Adriana to "Show me how happy you are that you finished the puzzle with GG!"

One guess who she got her ability to pull silly faces from....