When Dad's in Charge

Family night around here gets pretty wild. Addison ran around with no diaper stealing apples and toting around a giant box of cheerios. I think this is payback for the many disruptive years I gave my parents. We made leaf garland and wrote what we were thankful on them. Addison got a hold of a marker and her Dad took it away. They went into the kitchen and came back with a new facial feature. Dave drew a blue mustache on my baby!! She thought it was great because we were all laughing at her. I of course go to be the bad guy and give the bath to remove the art work. Hopefully Addison doesn't sprout a blue mustache anytime soon!

Weekend Happenings

This was the last weekend before Dave ships off to Syracuse until mid December. I have been trying to mentally prepare myself a little bit at a time. This Summer was really difficult and I am trying to relax more knowing he will be back on Friday's every weekend. Friday I went to a baby shower celebration for a friend at Olive Garden. Dave stayed home and bonded with Addison. She is currently obsessed with the vacuum. Since Dave secretly enjoys this chore it is a good fit for them. They spent the night vacumming away. Addison likes to turn it on and off and then do a little tap dance and scream. It is really cute to watch. I guess she isn't afraid of it anymore! I had been looking forward to Saturday all week! We got a babysitter and it was much needed. We went out to dinner and Dave picked a little place out all on his own! We ended the night by going to the adult session of stake conference. It was a great session full of prayerful speakers. Dave will kill me if he reads this, but since he hardly ever does I will risk it. Dave claimed that a eyelash got caught in both his eyes at the same time. It sort of makes my heart melt that he got a little teary eyed. I don't think that there was a dry eye in the room. We had a great babysitter who even did my dishes! I made some freezer meals for Dave to take with him. It is a pain during the process, but I know he will be happy to have a good meal. We had some friends over for games and desserts tonight to end the weekend. We didn't end up playing games, but instead they helped us put in our new microwave. Ours went out and we were forced by our landlord to by our own. Dave found a good deal on craigslist and it is newer than our old one! Now I can eat my bagel bites:) Addison likes to help drag the garbage bag out to the garage can. Dave stuck her in the empty can and she sat down and tried to close the lid. I was slightly dying inside at how gross the inside of the can was! We think this might be a great "time out" spot!

Halloween and Friends

It seems like we have had a never ending coronation leading up to Halloween. Addison went to two playgroup parties, the mall and our neighborhood. Needless to say I am enjoying the snickers and reese cups! Hurricane Sandy left Halloween night without a problem so we bundled up and went out. Addison has run away every time I even bring her costume out. Next year we won't go so fluffy. We got her loaded up in the wagon and met our neighbors the Quinn's around the corner. I was teasing their oldest, Teo that he wouldn't be aloud to come back to our house unless he got me an airhead. He took the job seriously and got me one at almost the last house. Addison loved carrying her bag even though it weighed more than her towards the end. She kept pulling the candy out and trying to bite through the wrappers. She managed to eat about ten pieces of twizzlers before the night was over. We went to about half our neighborhood before Addison's nose was bright red. The night ended with her little BFF Will coming trick or treating to our door. She had a great Halloween and we look forward to next year!   

We had the Quinn's over while their parent's went out for their 10th wedding anniversary! Addison had a blast with the girls. I set up a picnic and they ate their lunch and then later some popcorn on a blanket in the family room. They watched a little show and as you can see they were glued to the tv! We are lucky to have such good neighbor's!

Trick or Treat...Indoor Style

With Hurricane Sandy on her way we decided to go trick or treating a day early. The mall was hosting a free night of candy so we figured we would scoot on over. We met up with a few families and made our way around to the stores. It wasn't too crowed and Addison was pretty happy get a stick of licorice that she ate within the first 2 minutes. She kept saying, "back, back". She wanted her candy bag back so she could dig through for another sucker. Dave had to leave to go to YM so we finished without him. Addison loved it and I loved not chasing her in the dark, cold and wet streets!

Back to Hurricane Sandy...we were suppose to get horrible rain and power outages. We had fairly heavy rain last night with some high winds. Today there was nothing! I stalked up on water, got some new batteries and filled the fridge with groceries. It was a good feeling to know that even if we did have power outages that we would be prepared. I am grateful for the recent Christmas presents from both our parents of preparedness starter kits. At the time they weren't very exciting, but now I feel blessed that they did. 

Addison has started picking up some funny words. She will come hand you something (that she isn't suppose to have!) and say, "Good girl, tank too!" This is what Dave and I both say to her all the time. On another note she she has also started to say, "MINE!" I am not very excited about this one. I couldn't figure out where she head this from until tonight. Dave looked at her and said, "Mommy is Mine!" Go figure. Dave has since learned that he needs to play nice! You may also hear Addison knocking on everything! She knocks on your head, the door, all her toys, her high chair. I don't know what she loves about it, but it keeps her busy! 

Family Pictures 2012

Well, it is that time of year again when we get family pictures done. I warned Dave for a few months that they were going to happen again. The combination of Addison running away and Dave just being Dave during pictures made for an interesting shoot! We have been really lucky (don't know if she feels the same!) to have our friend, Laura take our pictures a few other times. We found this cool nature preserve to take pictures. The leaves were really pretty and they had a neat board walk or a swampy little lake. Everything that I wanted Addison to do in the pictures went south, but we managed to get some really cute ones! Thanks again Laura! 

Halloween Happenings

We have been busy getting ready for Halloween this weekend.We went to a pumpkin farm this week for playgroup. It was a little rainy for Addison got caked with mud. She loved the animals and may have gotten over her fear of goats! Addison carries around her pumpkin every time we go outside.  She likes to sit it next to her and talk to it. It is just her size! I make candy corn rice krispy treats that Dave thinks can be eaten for breakfast, lunch and dinner! We tried to go to the mall this weekend to a Halloween carnival and it was a flop. Addison was already crying in the car on the way there so we should have just gone home. She lasted about twenty minutes and we dragged her out screaming and kicking. She fought a nap all day and so we were all a little cranky:) We played at home the rest of the day and then got ready for out ward Fall Festival. Dave willingly put his costume back on and I dressed up as a tiger. Addison was not a huge fan of her costume and ran away from both of us as we tried to put it on her. She wound't really let us take a good picture of her either. She ran around eating cookies and chasing the kids around the gym. She loved carrying her candy bag around and picked out a dum dum to eat. She also managed to sneak a kit kat and bit through the paper and scarf the whole thing down on the car ride home! We make ghosts out of our feet a few weeks ago. Every time Addison sees it she says, "GHOST." She says it pretty clearly too!  We carved our pumpkin for FHE and baked the seeds. Addison didn't want to help scoop the pulp, but she was a good observer on the table next to her dad. I drew a pretty cool owl and Dave and I took turns carving. Hopefully Addison will put her costume back on for Halloween so we can load up on candy again!

A Little Girl Time

I have developed a knack for painting my nails while watching tv. We normally sit down and watch an episode of something a couple times a week and I paint. Addi is usually asleep when this is happening, but got up from her nap early one day. She wanted her nails painted too. I have tried doing this several times and she cries when I put the paint on and runs away. She sat down and put her foot up and kept saying, "Pretties!" I painted it a light pink with sparkles. She wasn't too happy that she had to have both feet done, but loves to look and touch them! 

Addi loves to play "house" pretty much all day long. She sits in her yellow chair and plays with those little people. She has a doll that is a price. I was sitting by her and looked over and she shouted, "WILL" and gave him a big kiss. Uh Oh. We have big problems here. Today in sacrament meeting Addison escaped the row and ran to Will. Those two get so excited seeing each other!