Christmas

After leaving my mom and dad's, we headed back over to Nick's parents to celebrate with his mom's side of the family. Nick's Aunt Terry, Uncle Mark, and cousins, Ben and Amelia were in town this Christmas!

Here are some pictures:



Addy playing with her Meemaw!



We had a great time eating and catching up.

Before everyone was getting ready to leave, we all got a little picture happy. We figured that it's not often that the whole gang is together and pictures are priceless right? So here are some pics from our photo shoot:



The whole gang! Minus Terry who was taking the picture.



Huff/Bullington Fam



Nick's mom and dad



The Huff's




Cousins





The Adams'

What a great Christmas!!!

Christmas Morning

We woke up Christmas morning to see that Santa had come and left lots of fun things for Addy! I guess she was an extra good girl!








Daddy and Addy coming down the stairs to see all of the goodies.



The very first thing she went to was a little Minnie Mouse table and chairs.




She then noticed her Schwinn tricycle. She's a little small for this now, but will grow into it.



Mommy and Addy playing with her Mickey Mouse Clubhouse piano book.

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse figurines. Our gal has been loving Mickey Mouse lately if you can't tell! :)

We had so much fun opening gifts and spending Christmas morning together. We were sure to remember the true reason for the CHRISTmas season, and have been teaching these things to Miss Addy. She can tell you all about where God lives. We also LOVE when she says Jesus which sounds like "Jejus." Too sweet. At church, they teach her about the Bible in her Toddler's class. She is so sweet about the Bible and seems to almost be in awe of it. She pats it all lovingly. :)

We headed up to my mom and dad's to eat Christmas breakfast with my fam. We had our traditional breakfast of breakfast casserole and monkey bread. YUM!

This was an extra special Christmas for us because Adalynn is at such a fun age. We are so thankful for all of our many blessings!

Christmas Eve

We had a wonderful Christmas this year! It was extra nice because Nick has been off this whole week! We have been taking it easy and enjoying spending time with Little Addy.

Here is a recap of our Christmas Eve:

We headed to Nick's mom and dad's to celebrate with the Adams' in the afternoon.



Grandma A, Addy, and Aunt Leslye




Adalynn received from pots and pans for her kitchen and had a great time cooking with Great Grandpa Adams.




Addy and daddy opening gifts.

Ollie got his favorite! A tractor!

Addy liked his tractor too.

Smile Addy!

That evening, we headed over to my mom and dad's to celebrate with my family. We have kind of gotten into a bad habit. The first place we visit, we seem to get a ton of pics and then slack off on the next place. So... we don't have any pics from Christmas Eve with my family. Don't worry though. We are going to my sister's new house tonight for a chili supper. I will have some pictures from my side of the family. I promise!!! :)

After coming home, we were anxious to see if Santa would visit!

little potty

Addy turned 19 months old on the 18th. WOW... can't believe it! My baby is 19 months old. Almost not a baby anymore! She will always be MY baby though, no matter how old she is. It's funny, but sometimes I even still refer to her as "the baby." The other day, Nick had her at his mom's house, and I remember asking him, "How's the baby doing?" :)

We are definitely not pushing any type of potty training at this point. However, Adalynn has seemed to take an interest in "the potty." She loves to tell you when she "poo pooed or pee peed" in her diaper.

Sometimes, when I'm home with her alone, I will say be right back... Mommy has to go potty. She will scream "PEE PEE!" at the top of her lungs, and get this huge grin on her face.

Since she seems so interested, we put her little potty in the downstairs bathroom. She likes to open and close the lid and sit on it like a little chair. I have tried to take her pants and diaper off and sit her on it, but she wanted no part of that.

Today, she went into the bathroom and sat on her potty. Pants and diaper were on. She was sitting very quietly for a couple of minutes, and I began wondering what she was doing in there. I finally went in and asked, "What are you doing?" I didn't get a response, but quickly realized that Addy went poo poo on the potty! Not in the potty, just on it in her diaper. lol.

Hooray for me!

Just wanted to share this little story so I didn't forget!

mommy's helper

Addy has been quite the little helper around here lately.

She helps clean windows...





She helps cook in her little kitchen...



She even helps with the laundry...




By help, I mean pull clothes off of a huge heaping pile. :)

Oh, and she helps gets Daddy in on the helping action too!

We love our helping girl!

Who has time for naps?

Adalynn has decided that she has much better things to do than take naps these days. She has been a little "nap fighter." When she does finally go down, her naps are getting shorter and shorter. I guess Little Miss Addy Cakers has a full agenda that she has to get to! :)

Today, she did not want to take a nap, but was in desperate need of one. When she finally did, she wasn't asleep for more than an hour. After being awake only a few minutes, she is crashed out on the couch snoozing. I guess she decided she needs her sleep, but the bed is not the place to do it!

pure.sweetness

Love sleeping baby pictures!

silly girl

Adalynn is quite the comedian. She is constantly making us laugh about something. Here are some pics from first thing yesterday morning.

First thing she wanted when we came downstairs, were her shoes on.

Notice how her shirt and pants are all pulled up? She prefers to wear her clothes like this. I will constantly pull them down and she will put them right back where they were. haha. She is always talking about and showing off her bot bot (a.k.a belly button).

After adjusting her clothes several times, I went to get some breakfast ready in the kitchen. When I walk back into the living room, this is what I see!

Little Miss Addy is chillaxin on the couch playing with her bot bot like it's nothing. Crack me up. So glad I was able to get a pic of this.

Not too long after that, she gets ahold of a toilet paper roll with just a little left on it. So, she pulls all that off and wears the empty roll around on her hand waving hi at everything.

You probably can't tell what this is, but it's the door going out to the garage which now has crayon ALL over it. Adalynn thought it was an easel I guess. :) I know a little magic eraser will get rid of it in a jiffy, but had to leave it up for Nick to see.

Never a dull moment with our gal! ;)