time is flying!

My oh my! February is flying by, and I think this is only my second post of the month. I promise to do better in March! We are ready for spring around here!

Between work, my IUS class, after school tutoring that I do twice a week, and of course Miss Addy... I have been a busy lady lately!

I wanted to hop on real quick and share some of Addy's new doings.

* Nick and I now have to spell a lot of words rather than say them. This is because, if you say certain words around Adalynn, she gets all excited and thinks we are talking about right this second. For example, we cannot say anything about Nana. If she hears Nana's name she gets all excited and brings us her shoes, and demands to go now! One day I told her we were going there later. Big mistake! Once she figured out we weren't going now, she threw an epic tantrum. Oh yes! We see some of these now too.

*Another word we have to spell around her rather than say is outside. This girl loves being outside! We love taking her out there too. The only problem is, she NEVER gets tired of playing outside. One day when it was nice, we were out for going on 2 hours. Finally, I told her it was time to go in. This ended in the biggest tantrum yet. I'm really afraid that one of these days the neighbors are going to call 911 because she sounds like she's being hurt. After I finally got her in she was bringing me my shoes back and saying, "Outside pease!" over and over. It took her a while to calm down. Poor Addy just doesn't understand yet.

*We have been seeing Adalynn's sensitive side more and more. She might be just like her mama because I am rather sensitive myself (Nick might say I am overly sensitive! ha!) I had a boo boo on my hand a while back, and Adalynn would grab my hand and rub it, and say "Awww boo boo." She looked really sad and concerned the whole time. Sweet girl.

She also has this Mickey Mouse book. In one of the pictures, Goofy's boat is sinking and his face looks a little scared. Adalynn flips straight to that page and dwells on it every time she gets that book out. She says, "Aww Goof Goof! No! Awww!"

Something she did yesterday really surprised me though. We were watching a little TV while waking up. I had a Sesame Street on that I had recorded for her. In the episode Zoe can't find her pet rock named Rocco. Elmo lost it while watching it for her, and she gets all mad at him. So Zoe is all sad about her pet rock while also being mad at Elmo. This scenario was too much for little Addy to handle. Zoe starts crying a little bit which makes Addy say, "Oh no!" Adalynn then begins crying too! Poor Addy! I had to assure her it was okay, and then turn it off. Really Sesame Street? We like to keep our shows positive! haha!

We love our sweet, sensitive girl! Tantrums and all! :)

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!!!

I got a special delivery at work today. Nick sent a dozen pink roses to school! How sweet! Our kindergartners really got a kick out of it too! ;)



I couldn't wait to get home to my little Valentine today! I had a couple of goodies for Miss Addy when I picked her up from Gran's including a teddy bear and balloon (aka boon).

Her favorite thing of all was daddy's box of chocolates. That girl is a chocolate lover if there ever was one. We had to hide it after she gobbled a few pieces because she hadn't eaten dinner yet! She searched for a couple of minutes before giving up.



I am so thankful for my two Valentines! :)

little hands

Adalynn was recently watching Barney and saw the kids on TV tracing their hands. A few minutes later, she was playing with her magnadoodle. She stuck her hand on it, and handed me the pen with a huge grin. She wanted me to trace her hand! She thought that was the greatest thing!

This girl can't get enough of hand tracin'! We do it quite often. :)

Here is a picture that I thought was so sweet. Nick was playing with Addy, and traced his hand, and then hers inside of it.




precious :)

I came across this poem, and thought it was so sweet.

My Little Hands

My little hands play pat-a-cake
They Peek-a-boo and wave

They catch me as I learn to walk
And splash me as I bathe

My little hands reach up to you
For hugs before I sleep

And fold together when I pray
My Lord my soul to keep

My little hands are tiny now
But yours will serve to guide me

And when I'm grown, I'll still reach out
And know you're right beside me.


*tear*

We are cherishing the time we have with Adalynn while her hands are still little! :)

dress up trunk

Nana got Adalynn the sweetest little dress up trunk for Christmas. It's filled with dresses, tutus, dress up shoes, a wand, a purse, and jewelry. What more could a gal want? ;)

We stuck it in the corner of her playroom (spare bedroom), and thought we would bust it out here in a few months when she was more into that sort of thing.




There it is. So cute!

Well, Little Miss Addy has been lovin' that dress up trunk lately. She has a ball rummaging through all of its goodies!



Here she is modeling one of her tutus.



Tutu back shot! Love it! She was showing it off to daddy and Uncle Corey.



Check out those tootsies in the heels!



Lovin' the princess nightgown with the heels! lol





She likes to use her little trunk for a seat too. It's multi-purpose!

It's true... we have a girly girl on her hands. I am loving.every.minute!!!

a girl and her dog

Adalynn and Brinklee have been the best of buds lately. This is a good change because Brinklee actually went into a deep depression after Adalynn was born. It sounds kinda funny, but it was actually pretty sad watching her mope around all the time. Luckily, she snapped out of it before I had to go to the vet and request puppy Prozac! :)


Everywhere Adalynn goes, Brinklee is right there. If she isn't, Adalynn will call, "Buppy!" Her mixture of Brinklee and puppy!





Here's Brinks getting a good belly rub from Addy!





She stays in close proximity.





Tried to get the two to pose. Brinklee was looking at the camera!



Speaking of Brinklee, she turns 7 tomorrow! Can't believe she's already 7! She is such a good dog and we love her to pieces. Is it weird that I know that my dog's exact birthday is January 21st? Hmmm... possibly, but nonetheless, she was our first baby!



And just for fun... here's a pic of Addy taking a picture of me while I was taking a picture of her! :)




Lovin' the snow boots in the house! That girl loves her shoes!





Who doesn't give their camera a big hug after taking a picture? :)

please pray

Hi everyone!

My grandpa is in great need of prayers. He was diagnosed with cancer in and around his left kidney several days ago. He is in ICU at Floyd Memorial Hospital. His doctors think that the cancer is treatable and curable, if they remove his kidney. However, he is much too weak for any type of operation like that at this time. He spends most of the time sleeping, but when he is awake, it is impossible to understand his speech. We are told that this has to do with some type of imbalance that his kidney problems are causing. He is unable to eat, and they are expecting that they will need to put a feeding tube in soon. If at all possible, please remember my grandpa, grandma, and dad in your prayers during this very difficult time for our family. I know that God is watching over them, and has it all under control, but a few extra prayers are greatly appreciated!

Thank you so much!

Cara

daddy's work

Friday night, we had to run up to Nick's work to use the fax machine. There were still some people there working, and Addy was kind of running around like a crazy lady! :) So... we sat her up in Nick's desk chair and put some Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (via Youtube) on the computer for her to watch. This kept her occupied, and she thought she was big stuff "working on" the computer.








Future CEO one day? :)