Birthday Party

This is Addie's birthday cake! My friend Alix's sister, Autumn, made the cake. She is so awesome and available if you would need a cake. It was perfect and tasted good too. I received a lot of compliments on how good it tasted! We ate it all during Thanksgiving!

Here is Mommy, Addie and Daddy before the party started. We had such a great time and had a lot of people come and show their love for our little angel.

My First Birthday Present

Addie with her Uncle Will and Aunt Tracie. (Sorry guys this isn't the best picture of you two!)
Addie opening her present from Will and Tracie. They were unable to come to the party so they brought her present over the night before. She was super excited about the tissue paper. They bought her books and wooden blocks. She loved the books and we are working on learning to play with the blocks. Mainly, she throws them and gets them all out!

Updates and Apologizing

We would like to start this blog by apologizing for not posting in a while. We are usually better than this however, everyone in our family has had the stomach flu. Instead of all at once, we have each had it a different week and it has lasted 5 days. BEWARE--severe diarrhea followed with an occasional throw up and then an achy body and head ache.

So we are going to do a power post and tell you a bunch.

This is Addie pushing her push toy around the living room. She is able to push it easily and she can walk all around the table and couches but she has no concept at all that she can walk. I have to admit that this is one milestone I haven't really worked with her on. I enjoy her being a baby! I figure she'll learn to walk when she's ready. However, everyone is giving me a hard time about her not walking by her first birthday so I guess we will start practicing harder.

After shopping on Saturday, Addie was very tired and hungry. I was pretty sure that if we got her out of the carseat (she was asleep) and fed her she would continue to sleep in her bed. We fed her and laid her down. Then we proceeded to unload the car. We heard lots of squeals and playing. When we opened the door this is what we saw. Addie had turned on her mobile, was pointing at us and saying "Uhhh," there was also a very distinct smell of POOP!

Mommy and Addie love after work!

Daddy and Addie hanging Christmas Lights.

Playing in a basket. Addie, Jeremy and I
hung a floating shelf on Addie's wall and she enjoyed helping.


Eating Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Jeremy fed Addie a chocolate chip cookie the other night and she loved it.
But then she was wound up and didn't want to sleep.

When you're sick laundry doesn't get done. This is Addie scoping out her highchair which she enjoys pulling up on and playing with the straps. She has some goofy looking pajamas because we are behind laundry.

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!