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! ;)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Today was our first snow day of the school year. I was more hoping for a 2 hour delay I guess, but I'm definitely not one to complain about not working. So... Miss Addy and I took full advantage of our day with no plans!



I actually got a lot of things accomplished today that I've been wanting to do. Don't ya love it when that happens?



I've been reading a lot of blogs about decorating lately. For a while I kind of thought to myself, that I can't throw things together like the "experts" can. Which, I still can't, but I can try... right?



I'm really proud of myself because I've been wanting to put together a picture collage for our living room to go in the place of a painting I'm not crazy about anymore.







Here it is all laid out on our guest bed for Nick to hang up! Check that off my to do list. Yes!



So... back to these decorating blogs. (You may notice that this post is random, but it's for mostly me and my fam when I turn the blog into a book one of these days. Do not feel obligated to read! lol) I've seen that these blogs do "tours of homes." I LOVE looking at all the pics, so gorgeous! So... I figured, if these people can put ornaments in a jar and call it a decoration, I can too, right?



Another thing Addy and I did today was add, switch up, and take pics of some Christmas decorations. So here are some pics if you're interested and if I haven't lost ya already! :)






This is the first year we've put a tree in our bedroom and I love it! The pic doesn't really do it justice, but it looks beautiful at night shining through our upstairs window.







Adalynn's tree complete with tea pot ornaments.








This is not Christmas-y, but I have been so wanting to add pictures to this hallway storage shelf basket thing for months and finally did today!









The stockings were hung on the stairwell with care

Downstairs tree. We started the all silver theme several years ago and it stuck.

I added candy canes today for a little color if you can see them.

Love this candy dish. My grandma made it!

Picked this up at Hobby Lobby today for Addy's bedroom. So sweet.

Merry Christmas everyone!

ugly sweaters

Nick and I got all decked out in some ugly Christmas sweaters (they are Christmas even though you can't really tell in this pic) and headed to an ugly sweater party at Brittney's Saturday night. My grandparents came to play with Addy for a couple of hours.



Here we are! The sad part is, this is the best family photo we've taken in a while with our camera. Too bad we are dressed so ridiculously! lol

It was a great party! We weren't able to stay for too long. I wanted to get home so my grandparents weren't out too late in case all that rain started freezing. Good times though!