adella made this adorable paper dinosaur at the community center, right before a major meltdown that prompted us to come home. it all began at 4:30 a.m., when olive decided she needed to go outside, and woke us up howling. the howling woke up adella, who woke me up by getting into our bed and rolling on my head over and over. this went on for several hours until, at 8:00, i decided i might as well get out of bed since no one was sleeping anyway. at 10:00, we made our way to the montford community center for two fun-filled hours of play and crafts and snacks. we lasted about an hour before the meltdown. after a nice lunch and a midday nap (me too today!), we headed out to the playground to play with kim and elijah. here's adella, strapped in with duckies, ready to go... one nice thing about global warming is that it allows us to play outside in the middle of january, without the feeling of it really being january. it's terrible, but convenient for entertaining toddlers. adella actually jumped off of this thing today! scary, but thrilling (for her) ahoy, matey! on the way home from the playground, we drove past the road to the nature center and adella said "mommy! see animals day?" she remembers! i'm assuming she'll also remember that i told her we could go see the animals tomorrow if the weather is nice. so, stay tuned tomorrow for some animal pictures! adella's latest impossibly cute activity: throwing her babydoll down on the floor and then gently picking it up, saying, "sorry baby - baby sad..." and patting it on the head. i swear, she did not learn that from us.