Ma is Coming!

Addie's daycare was closed on Monday, October 5th.  So Ma came up to keep Addie for us.  She doesn't have school on Mondays this year!  Of course no trip is complete without presents.  Addie received a ceramic bowl which Addie is now storing her hair bands in, a Dora outfit, and a book about Minnow Max from her Pa.  Addie had a great time.  Thanks Ma for helping out.

Before Ma came we got our Halloween decorations out so that Addie could learn about Fall and Halloween.  She enjoys are pumpkins and has carried them all over the house.  Mostly, she enjoys our fall harvest village houses and little people.  I paid $10 for it like 10 years ago so I figure if it gets broken oh well.  She loves the little people and has played with them a whole lot!  She also enjoyed sitting in the witches pot!

Happy Birthday to Maebrie!

Our bestest buddy, Maebrie turned 2 on October 8th.  She is exactly 7 weeks older than Addie.  Addie did a good job handing Maebrie her presents and only took out one sheet of tissue paper.  Addie had fun playing with all Maebrie's friends and presents.  We are so proud of you Miss Maebrie!

Birthday and Christmas Wish List

UPDATED IDEAS:
We took Addie to Toys R Us last weekend and bought a few items. Many of you have told me items that you would like to purchase for her. So please comment or let me know which items are being purchased since many people are shopping off this list. Below are a few other ideas that we had at ToysRUs. ToysRUs does have some items that only they have, I am not sure if these are exclusive items or not.

Dora the Explorer -- My Talking Backpack
Art Table -PURCHASED
Paints, markers, crayolas, and playdoh for table would be great!
Snow White Vacuum
Snow White Broom and cleaning set
Uno Moo (game for toddlers)
Pink and purple keyboard

Original Email:
As many of you know, Addie is somewhat spoiled and has so many toys and clothes. We were so blessed last year with the outpouring of gifts for Addie's birthday and Christmas. As we approach another holiday season, I can't help but wonder where all of this is going to go, the old and the new. We have started a list of things she needs and things she is interested in as well as things we just think she would like.

I would like to remind you that Savings Bonds and Stocks would also be greatly appreciated for higher education later down the road. I can assure you that we will not let her go with out any essential items at the current time!!!

Larger Items:

Little Tikes Cozy Coupe (red and yellow) ~$40.00

Little Tikes Picnic on the Patio Playhouse (available at WalMart, ToyRUs and Target) ~$200.00

Radio Flyer Tricycle (Pink or Red) ~$40.00 PURCHASED

Step2 LifeStyle Custom Kitchen Value Bundle ~100.00

Little People Happy Sounds Home by FisherPrice ~40.00 PURCHASED

Other Items:
Snow White DVD PURCHASED
Snow White Barbie-like Doll at WalMart PURCHASED
Barbie one without a lot of small pieces that she can play with PURCHASED
Dora Explorer- we now love Dora anything Dora would be good
A Baby she can bathe with--they make several of these PURCHASED
Puzzles
Play food and play items for her babies
Elmo and Sesame Street continue to be favorites as well
Educational Toys such as Leap Frog

Clothes:
Addie has alway stuck to her age in clothing. She is just starting to wear a 2T and will need more winter clothes.

Stocking Ideas:
Panties- size 2T-3T or size equivalent to around 25 pounds
Socks-(she has a big foot) Size 7.5 or something for 2T-3T
Crayons- Jumbo
Coloring Books
Story Books
Hairbows
Playdoh and tools
M and M's




Addie has been overly blessed with stuffed animals. She has recently began to play babies and with stuffed animals! We have a hamper full in her closet! We are making one request:

No Stuffed Animals!!!

Thank you but we have plenty!

In Memory of Mr. Micheal Gier

A few weeks ago, we lost a great friend to Addie's blog, Micheal Gier. Mike was married to one of my dearest friends Donna. She is a coworker and teaches 3rd grade at Decatur. I had the honor of sharing what Mike meant to me at his service. I have included that below:

The first time I heard the name, “Mike Gier,” it was about 2 and half years ago when my friend Donna told me that she had met someone. She and a group of church friends had been out to eat dinner and introduced her to Mike. Their evening concluded with her already putting him to work, by having him cut out some stuff for her classroom. Donna is notorious for having all of us help her at school so I thought this man is heaven sent to all of us if he is going to help her cut stuff out because then I don’t have to do it!!

Mike became a regular figure at our school building helping deliver pizzas for parties, lunch for teachers, or unloading and rearranging furniture in our new building. Even though we would call at the last minute, Mike was always patient with us and never became upset. On Friday morning, as we shared the news with Donna’s class, one student said “He’s the man who brought us pizza.” You will forever be the husband of the year at Decatur Northside Elementary! Always helping Donna and all of us when needed!

Mike was also an avid reader of my daughter Addie’s blog. I try to post something every week so our families can keep up but sometimes I get behind. It would never fail I would call Donna and I would hear Mike’s voice in the background saying, “I sure would like to see some new pictures of that sweet baby” I will miss your precious comments about Addie and your encouragement to keep her blog update!

I know that if there was one thing Mike could tell us right now it would be, the best decision he ever made was the day that he accepted Jesus Christ into his life. I know that in the years I have known Mike he has lived his life as a man of God and there is no doubt in my mind that Mike is singing with the angels right now.

Mike we love you for the wonderful joy that you brought into Donna’s life. You will forever hold a special place in my heart and we will miss you so much.

The Garage is Clean!

Addie just being cute in the yard!

I believe that most of you know that since the arrival of our bundle of joy almost 2 years ago our dogs have lived outside and have a dog door that goes into the garage. Our 3 car garage belongs to the dogs. It is dirty nasty and smelly and I can't park in there. So we built them a dog house! Addie was super excited about the lumber, the screws and the drill. She worked very hard with daddy to build a house for her friends, Bigby and Bella!

Labor Day Weekend- 1st Football Game!

After about 20 pictures and neither girl looking at the camera at the same time! This is what you get. The first football game of the season was in LR and of course we are ANTI-LR games. Sorry to those of you who aren't. Anyways, we bought the game on TV and had the group over to watch it. The girls of course provided the entertainment.

Labor Day Weekend Trip to the Safari!

We have had the opportunity to see several of the Safari animals in the last year and half. Mr. King, one of our principals, family runs the safari so the animals show up at a lot of school events. However, we had not taken Addie to the safari. If you have not been you should go! The last time I went it was winter and it was so much better this time. Well and now that I have a child to enjoy it! This picture is of Addie throwing bread into the monkeys!











She loved feeding the goats. They were a little aggressive so we found that it was best to feed them through the fence instead of being in there with them.
















This is Jeremy and Addie looking at something while I drove us through. We did let Addie out of her seat for the drive-thru.

















Okay so normally blogger auto flips pictures but not this one. This was the baby monkey Chloe we have met her many times but this is the first time she ever jumped on us. She made many jumps onto me and Addie. I couldn't figure out who to protect Addie the monkey or myself!