Ada's one true love

I bet you are thinking Ada's one true love is a soother, a stuffed animal or perhaps a blanket?  Maybe a family memeber or at the very least a beloved toy?  No.  It is her shoes.  Ada loves her shoes.  She has 3 pair and she loves all of them, but she is especially fond of her "duckies" as she calls them.  These are robbies with a picture of a duck on the top.  When she can find them, Ada carries her shoes all over the house trying to find someone who will put them on her feet.  When she spots you, she follows you around declaring "soo, soo" over and over again.  If you sit down to oblige her, she will rush to your lap with delight and literally giggle out loud as you put on her shoes.  I've never seen anything like it.

Darwyn also loved shoes, but mostly she just enjoyed taking out everyone's shoes and making a mess... now that I think of it, her love of shoes probably had more to do with her love of making messes then with the shoes themselves.  With Ada, it is different.  She also takes out the shoes, but she holds each shoe lovingly and tells you who each shoe belongs to.  She holds up Gus's shoe and says "Daddy soo."  Then mine, "Mommy soo".  Then Max's, "mama soo" (she has not figured out how to say Max in a way that doesn't sound like mom.  She says mama for Max and mommy for me.) And of course she follows these with "Da'n soo" and "Say Soo" for Darwyn and Jose respectively.  It doesn't matter which of the many shoes in the house you give her, she knows who wears it.

Anyway, I have posted a video of Ada's love of shoes for your viewing pleasure and to prove I'm not making it up.

I also posted this cute video of Ada on the slide, a much more commen obsession.  Ada also loves slides and dives down them with absolutely no fear, no matter how big they are.