most fun ever

Last night we did our usual Monday night dinner at the Ott house. Each week Ada becomes more and more comfortable, and is spending less and less time in our arms and more and more time running around.

We usually spend a little bit of dinner eating together and then one by one the kids will get up to go play while the adults get to finish eating and have some real conversations about what is going on in our lives. Well, until recently, it was the adults and Ada. She was perfectly content to sit on our laps and listen to the conversation around her. Well the last few weeks she has started to join in the kiddie fun. She'll still stay at the table a little longer than Eric and Maia, but once she notices that Maia is running around in her princess shoes, or Eric is jumping off the coffee table she scoots her little bum off of her chair and RACES to join them. Last night the kids did several laps around the core of the house and the look on Ada's face said it all. "I never want to leave, I never want to stop running, I'M HAVING SO MUCH FUN!!!!" And just when I started to believe that she would never stop running around she hit the wall. She had exerted all of the energy she had, and she was DONE. So she climbed up into my lap, put her head on my shoulder, and rested. Until she saw Eric jumping again and she forgot that she was out of energy and like a bolt of lightning shot out of my lap to join him on the couch.... Ahhh to be 1 again!