Lake Pictures!

Last weekend we enjoyed our first trip to Smith Mountain Lake this year. Addie had tons of fun on the boat! The baot would lull her to sleep some, but she enjoyed the ride the rest of the time, especially when she was driving the boat with her daddy. Sorry I did not have my camera for the driving excursions. Our challenge this summer will be figuring how to keep little miss busy from jumping off the side of the pier. She is not afraid of the water at all which is a little scary. Of course her lifejacket is on, but her mama is still worried about going off the side of the pier. What if she hit her head? My idea is one of those little gates that go in a circle, kind of like a cage. I know that is terrible, but what else are we to do? Chuck is totally against locking her in a cage. Poor girl! Maybe I will just drink alot so that I do not make myself crazy or make Addie crazy staying right on top of her. Here are some pics! Check out the one with the sunglasses. Addie obvoisuly put them on like that, she always tries to where them like that. Funny little girl!

Addie updates!

Well Addie is quickly approachng 19 months old (tomorrow) and she is all of a sudden very grown. (That is not good!) She has started experiencing time out this week as she is starting to be a little defiant. Terrible twos are starting a little early. HA! Like when you tell her no, she keeps doing whatever you told her not to do and watching to see what you do. Like climb the stairs, etc. and then she will stop come back all sweet and shortly again start testing again. How cute-huh? Oh and then the hitting, that is where time out has come in. Last week she hit her best buddy at daycare and made her cry, yes she actually hit 3 year old Avery and made her cry. I was shocked! Addie is not aggressive or so we thought. Well then I saw it myself. I was off on Tuesday and Addie and I went to play with my friend Cameron and her sweet little Ella. Addie was a hot mess! She hit Ella, took her toys repeatedly, and was just not listening to her mama! I could not believe that she hit poor sweet Ella. I have a bully! Sorry to Cameron and Ella as we went over to help out the pregnant mama and I just had to referee my little terror the whole time. Then today what did she do, she hit Avery again. Okay so we do not spank and we have a little hitting machine! And to think that for years I have given parenting information to parents through my job and I am having to think hard about all of that stuff now myself. 90% of the time Addie is still the sweetest little thing, but we need to curb the hitting of her friends. Oh and yes to my friends this is true, that sweet little smiley angel that is always so shy is acting out, can you believe it.

On a much brighter note, Addie is just mommy's little sweetie (most of the time that is-HA!) She has this thing now that when she is sitting on my lap she always has to sit to the side and put her arm around my neck. Quirky huh! She loves to play with my hair too, what styles she can do.

Oh and we are still absolutely fascinated with Elmo and hockey! So how is it that Chuck was watching hockey the other night (two random teams) and Addie was not interested at all. The announcer started talking for the Hurricanes game and she started her cheering for hockey and climbed up on the couch to watch, no kidding! She knew the announcer for the Hurricanes! Ridiculous huh!

Oh and Elmo, so we were at the lake this past weekend and the DVD player was not working. Elmo withdraw for Addie. So like usual we were singing the Elmo songs as Chuck and I now know them by heart from hearing them in the car on the DVD player and at home some. Well in some of the Elmo videos it goes Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Elmo's World, and yes to you Elmo experts it does go La La La La sometimes too. Anyway how about Addie now sings the song all of the time, her version is Do Do Do Do Elmo. So flipping funny! Oh and sometimes it is Do Do Do Do Elmo World in that cute little voice.

Newest favorite Addie word of mine is Okay, she says it funny to me. So cute. Oh and herro for hello. Ha!

Last update, you all need to hear Addie count. We have been teaching her to count from 1 to 5. She is really getting it, but she never says four. She goes 1, 2, 3, 5. There was a night recently where she woke up hysterical in the middle of the night and she ended up in bed with us. So not the norm and we were so tired and she was ready to play. Well we were trying to get her to go to sleep and all of a sudden at 4:00am she breaks out counting and she did 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. We could not help but crack up as she actually got 4. Such a funny little girl! We sure do love her, even in this bully stage!

Random Weekend pics!

Here are some pics of Addie and her cousins Drew and Kylie during their recent visit! These are pics around the house, from the Children's Museum, etc. Addie loved playing with her cousins! Oh and as to why I am going down the slide at the Children's Museum with Addie well she refused to go down alone and we were getting quite a line behind us so there we went. My brother in law was so kind to snap the picture (that is sarcasm), good thing he put the camera down before I climbed out of that slide, that was not be a pretty sight.


Okay all so a little poll. So Addie's straggly redneck hair? To cut or not to cut?? Her bangs are getting really long and she will not keep a barette in for long at all. It is also getting long over her ears, but that is more manageable as it is really long enough now to put behind her ears. So do I cut her hair so that those bangs do not look terrible when they fall in her face or do I wait it out and let them get longer. I fear that with a haircut she will look as if she has a mullet as I do not want to cut her little curls in the back. And mullets are just not acceptable to this yankee mama!! But the current bangs in her face look so redneck! What is a mama to do???

Easter Dress!

So here is the best that we could do for pictures in Addie's Easter dress. She was not up for a photo opportunity that day. Notice the picture with the hockey stick, all dressed up and still wanting to play hockey!

Easter Egg Hunts!

Addie and her cousins participated in four Easter egg hunts Easter weekend. Addie got more into it each hunt, but still would want to find a few eggs and then move on to what was inside the eggs. Addie's mommy had to get a little abrupt with some older kiddos at one of the Easter egg hunts. Seriously did they need to try to steal the one egg that the one year old little girl is trying to get. So it is not offensive that I told the kid who was about 10 or 11 to back off. Oops! I was defending my baby girl! HA!

Addie's First Trip to the Zoo!!!

Well this is a little delayed, but Addie had her first trip to the zoo over Easter weekend. Addie made her first zoo visit with her cousins Drew and Kylie. My sister, her husband, and their two kids came to visit for the weekend and we had a great day at the zoo. The only thing missing was Addie's Daddy. I hate that he missed her first zoo trip, but he waa busy at work redoing the ice that week. We will just have to visit again soon! Addie loved the elephants the best and kept going back to the fence yelling elephant as she wanted to stay there. Too cute! As for the carousel, she would only ride it sitting on my lap. Hence why I am on the carousel with her. Oh and in the kid zone, she just loved the mud pie kitchen. It was like combining her kitchen set and sand box all is one, she just loved it. Here are some pictures!

Addie loves the new ride!

Well the Burch family purchased a new car today for mama and Addie loves it! So we had a very cool DVD system added to our new car and what excitement that brought for Addie. Of course Addie did not know that mommy and daddy were getting a new car today until I picked her up from daycare. Well I made a stop at Target to buy a new Elmo DVD for the new car and what a hit it was. Can I just say we are obsessed with Elmo! Well, Addie could not wait to get into her car seat once I told her that we could watch Elmo in the car. (She usually is pretty ticked off about getting strapped in her seat!) She was so excited and just had a blast the whole way home watching Elmo and checking out her new space. The only problem is will she now expect to watch Elmo every time that she gets in my car- Oh no! I just thought it was pretty funny that of course us adults check out all of the gadgets and like having a new car, but so do 1 year olds.

Second thought what did we do as kids in the car on trips? we did not have DVD players that were also video games, that is just ridiculous! How and why can you now play 30 different video games in your car and need a remote. Remember the license plate game or maybe reading a book- that was how we passed the time! Now these kiddos have everything.