Oh my goodness!

I know that all mother's say it but I have the smartest kid ever. This was one of those weekends where I was like "WOW you are amazing"

Addie has learned to play patty cake, blow kisses and say "gone-gone". These have been works in progress but it just all came together today. She can also identify an Elmo from anywhere in a store. This is what she did today that was truly amazing.

1. We woke up. I had on a Lion King shirt. She kept touching the Lion. I said "Addie the lion goes grrrr" She growls back AMAZING then I say good job and she claps for herself AMAZING

2. She eats and when she is done she says "Gone-gone" AMAZING

3. We are at Target scoping out the new ELMO which she will be getting in a few weeks for her birthday. His display mode blows kisses. With no prompting at all, she starts blowing him kisses back AMAZING

4. She also points now, we are in Sam's Club checking out and there is a single Elmo doll out of place sitting by their manager's stand, she points at him and makes her "uhh" noise. AMAZING She is starting to generalize her knowledge of Elmo across settings! (This is for my school friends)

I can't believe how much and how fast she is changing! We have to be super excited about all our speech and language milestones. First of all because that's what Mommy does and second of all because she's not really into walking so much.

Fun Weekend!

My Uncle Brandon gave me this fun Sonic cup full of ice and limes to play with.
Me and my Uncle Randy playing on the couch. He is a working college kid so we don't see a whole lot of him. We were so excited that he came to visit and can't wait to see him more over the holidays.
This is my Uncle Brandon. He came to see us on Friday, Saturday and Sunday! What a treat!

I don't want to go to school!!!

This is Friday morning. Addie has on her jacket, and hat and she is fussing! I believe she is saying Please stay home with me Mommy!!! She was trying to rip her hat off her head.

I can eat M&M's

We let Addie eat some M&M mini's that she got for Halloween. This is her messy face after eating them. She loved them! Remember Santa, we want M&M's in our stocking!

Addie shoveling M&M's in her mouth out of my hand!

The Village People

For Halloween this year, Jeremy and the gang decided to dress as the Village People for Matt's Birthday/Halloween Party. If you are offended I am sorry but this is the funniest picture ever! If you know any of these guys you can appreciate the humor.
Construction- Brandon Cassidey
Sailor- Will Downey
Cop- Jeremy
Cowboy-Eric Bailey
Indian- Justin Yates

Trick or Treat

For Addie's first Halloween, she was a "Queen Bee." She had 2 other costumes in the works but this is the one that we chose. We visited Alix, Matt, Jamie, Maebrie and animals, Will and Tracie and Eric and Tasha (kinda, she fell asleep)

This is Maebrie, Roma and Addie all dressed as bees.

This is Addie holding onto the tree in front of our house. We think it might be nice to take her picture every year in front of the tree so we can see it all grow!

She was really excited to be outside and be in the grass!

Because it's my blog I can say this!

To all my family and friends,

Most of you know that I will be voting a Democratic ticket in the next week. This is how I believe not about how you believe. You can scream at me all you want, it will not change my opinion just like I will not change yours.

I say this because I continue to get all of these awful emails from you. I want to remind everyone that this is what our country is about having different opinions and voting. I am not enraged at all by your opinions but have found most of you are full of anger and hate for opposing opinions. I feel privileged to know and be loved by passionate people but do not let this election affect your physical health. Honestly, I feel some of you are going to stroke out if McCain doesn' win.

Love you all
and Happy Voting!