Pool Day

Today, Adalynn and I joined some friends I work with and their kiddos for a pool day. It was a fun way to say goodbye to summer and hello to an upcoming school year. I tried to get some pics, but they're not the best. I was a little busy with Miss Addy. Unfortunately, she was not in the best mood for our pool day. :( These molars she has coming in are really giving us some fits. I hope they pop through soon!

Here are some pics that I did get:

Adalynn enjoying a snack is her stroller!

Miss Kaidyn snacking too!

Ashtyn getting ready to jump in!

I think the heat and sun were getting to Adalynn because she was in full meltdown mode by the time we left. Luckily, she fell asleep in the car and took a good nap!

It's about that time...

Today is my last official day of summer! Man, how it flew. It was a good one though, despite the heat! I have loved spending my days with Little Miss Addy! However, I am extremely blessed because I get to keep working part time this year!!! So Addy will still have me home 2.5 days of the work week, plus the weekends! This year, I will be teaching Kindergarten! Even though I'm not 100% ready to go back yet, I am super excited to meet our class! I have a feeling I will LOVE working with the little ones!

Speaking of Addy... she is getting to be a big girl! Here are some new happenings:

*She is now walking ALL over the place! Sometimes running.
* She insists on wearing her shoes at all times (her Sweet Squeaks are her favorite).
*She looks at family pictures and points out who she sees. (She recently started saying Addy
which sounds like Atty.
* Her favorite foods are pizza and hot dogs. Yeah, not the healthiest, but I'm just happy when
she eats!
*The ABC song is a favorite of hers. Her face lights up when I sing it.
*My mom bought her some mega blocks and she is having a big time playing with them.
*Books are one of her favorite things. One of my favorite things is when she gets one, brings it
up to me, says, "book", and then snuggles on my lap and listens to me read it. This happens
several times a day.
* She has also taken a liking to makeup brushes. She can often be seen clinching onto one of
those things while running around the house and checking stuff out.
* Addy Grace turns 15 months old in just 5 days! I take her to the Dr. Friday, for her checkup.
I can't wait to hear her weight and height because I can tell she is a growing girl!

cows

I so want to remember what happened this morning. Adaylnn and I hadn't been awake for too long. We were cuddling on the couch watching some TV. I think I had Regis and Kelly on. A Blue Bell ice cream commercial came on that had a bunch of cows on it. Addy gets all excited and starts saying, "Ca, ca, ca!" I'm guessing that was cow. :) So I said, "Yes! Those are cows! Moo moo moo." Then, she crawls down off the couch and heads to her little Fisher Price farm. It's one of her fav toys right now, and is actually a hand-me-down from my 27 year old brother, Nathan! Out of her farm, she grabs a toy cow and says, "Ca, ca, ca!"

This, to me, was so amazing. For one thing, she recognized a cow on TV. Then, thinks to herself that she has a toy cow. Then, out of a bunch of other animals like sheep and horses, she pulls out a cow! Our girl is certainly growing up. Turning into quite the little genius if I do say so myself! :)

Prayers Please

Tomorrow, my precious nephew (and Godson), William Christian, is having tubes put in at Kosair. Please keep him and his mommy and daddy in your prayers. They have been battling constant ear infections for several months now that antibiotics aren't even touching.

Last week, in preparation for his surgery, Will was Baptized at Our Lady. Nick and I are honored to be his Godparents.




There's that sweet Will.



Will with his mommy and daddy. This is not the best family photo since they aren't looking at the camera, but I put it up so you could see what Will does all the time... try to pull his ears off.
:(




That's better.






Baptism




Addy and Nana. Addy is wondering what in the world they are doing to her cuz.




We celebrated with a little pizza party and some cake afterwards at our place. I thought this cake was so sweet.

God bless you, Will. Hopefully the tubes will give you some comfort!

the tickle monster

I wanted to share this wonderful gift that Lyn (my grandma's best friend who is so sweet) gave Adalynn. We have sure had a lot of fun with it.

It's a book called Tickle Monster by Josie Bissett. It comes with these gloves you where while reading it. So you become the tickle monster. How cool is that? Adalynn finds it quite hilarious. Plus, the book alone is super cute.

Here are the gloves!

Guess who likes to pretend she's the tickle monster!

Pat-a-caking in her gloves.

Here's how she gets them off. Shake, shake, shake!

Mommy with the little tickle monster herself.

tasmanian devil

Adalynn loves playing with her toys. She's pretty good about entertaining herself for a short period of time while I'm doing chores. Luckily, our house is now pretty baby proof. She spends most of her time in our living room, but plays in her bedroom too while we are upstairs. Let me tell you, the girl can mess up a room in no time flat. We call her our little tasmanian devil.

I probably pick up the living room (where most of her toys are) 3 times a day. I often wonder what is the point though because toys are everywhere again in about 5 minutes.

This evening, after Nick got off work, his mom came over to spend some time with Addy. So, the three of them hung out downstairs while I had the opportunity to get some much needed things done upstairs. Adalynn's room has all kinds of fun things that she loves to play with. Her favorite is her kitchen that was handed down from Callie (my mom's friend's daughter). Addy loves getting her spoons, pots and pans, whisks, and fake food spread around her room.

So, my chore for the evening was to tackle her room. Besides just putting away toys, I had to clean out and organize her closet and drawers. We had quite a few outgrown things that were needing to be packed away.

When Addy and I went up there tonight to get her jammies before her bath, it was the first time she'd seen her room since I'd cleaned it. It was hilarious. Her eyes got huge and she started babbling. I know she was thinking, "Thank you mommy! Now I get to mess it all up again, and that's my favorite thing to do!" :)

The Paci Thief Strikes Again!

Adalynn and I were excited to get to watch Little Will today. They both were great! Will did get a little upset when his mommy left so I gave him his paci to help comfort him. Adalynn has never taken a paci regularly. I tried and tried with never any luck. She would take it for a few minutes and I would get all excited, and then she would just spit it out. I gave up hope and quit trying after she was a couple of months old. The girl cracks me up though because anytime she is around Will and he has his paci, she will pop it out of his mouth and into hers! Crazy girl!

So you can probably imagine what happened to poor Will's paci...

Don't let that innocent face fool you, she's a paci thief! :)

She's like, "What mommy? How come you never give me one of these?"

So... luckily, Aunt Jenna left an extra.