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!