Me me me me...

It is inevitable, when babies grow into toddlers, they decide they want to be part of adult conversations before their parents realize that they want to be part of adult conversation. Most toddlers will scream, bite, hit, and umm ... scream to get their parents' attention, which is understandable, they can't really talk and as parents we are conditioned to respond to this negative behavior.

As a family we spend A LOT of time together in the car, and somewhere in the last month or so Ada has decided that she wants to be part of most of our conversations. Especially when we are going over our days, she always has something to say about each of my meetings, and every new PowerPoint Elliot is working on. This could be bad. Could be, if Ada was like most normal toddlers. Now don't get me wrong, she does her fair share of screaming, and hitting, and sitting in the naughty corner; but in the car, she has developed a new plan of attack - she laughs. If we have not tried to bring Ada into the conversation for an extended period of time she will just start laughing. And laughing, and laughing. It starts out as a real, genuine laugh; but it quickly turns to a fake, cocktail party laugh. This development makes me happy not only because she is not screaming, and hitting, and ummm ... screaming during our long commutes, but also because she is proving at a very early age that she has what it takes to be a mover and a shaker.