St. Patrick's Day (a little late!)

How can this little baby girl be from just 1 year ago? She is so grown-up now :(

The leprechaun's note

Finding all of our clues

Making her magic green powder

Our yummy green dinner

Loved the green milk!

And REALLY loved the green pudding!

We had a fun St. Patrick's Day! It started with a leprechaun leaving Addison some "magic green powder!" He also left some clues at home for a scavenger hunt when we came home from work/daycare. We ended the night with some green foods, green milk, Irish Soda Bread, and green pistachio pudding (which is what our magic green powder made).

Busy Times

Her baby "Pebbles" helping with an art project






Our Valentine's Day sensory box

Making Valentines for Addison's friends

Sorting conversation hearts by color

Squishy heart jello jigglers

New princess dresses courtesy of one of Chris' students-yea!

Sweet family at church

We read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and then polled the princesses as to what they liked best: Goldfish or Swedish Fish

Making our One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish project

Yummy beignets

Helping mommy put powder sugar on the beignets for Fat Tuesday

A fun obstacle course

Having fun on a ride

Sweet baby Hayden was such a trooper!

Our friends, Kim, Cian and Cadhla

Addison and Avery having fun at the St. Patrick's Day parade

Her Shamrock tatoo

I can't believe it's been a month since I last posted! We have been busy lately with work and life. Addison has been such a joy-dancing, making up songs, dressing up like a princess and just being sweet and funny! She is doing well with potty-training and our goal is to be diaper-free by Spring Break in April. I can't believe Addy is 2 1/2 already. 3 will be here before we know it!

I am so fortunate to have such sweet friends, Kim and Kelly, that have kids close to Addison's age. We have played together since they were babies and it's fun to see them grow up together. We try to have a playdate at least once a month. We had a fun Valentine's Day playdate at Kelly's and went to the St. Patrick's Day parade with them today. The kids had a great time!

Addison and I did several Valentine's Day crafts in February and now we've been doing Dr. Seuss crafts and reading Dr. Seuss stories in March to celebrate his birthday.

Happy Valentine's Day

My heart is so full of love for these two...

Palm Springs

The Children's Museum

She really wants a puppy!

Cheese!

My vet in training

Grocery shopping-something she's all to familiar with!

Making a pizza-her favorite room!

Daddy wants in on the action

Eating a yummy cupcake

The circus!

Of course she needed a magic wand for the circus!

They let all the kids come down to the ring at the beginning and taught them tricks with hula hoops, scarves and feathers! She loved it!

Getting ready to ride the gondola

Can't wait!

First steps in snow-not sure what to think-it was slippery!

Maybe I'll just eat some...

Snowball fight!

Trying to build a snowman

That's pretty much how we all felt on the way home!

Last weekend we had a fun-filled little getaway to Palm Springs. I had never been before and although it wasn't a relaxing spa weekend like Palm Springs is known for, we had such a wonderful time as a family!

On Saturday when we got there we went to a great Children's Museum, ate at a cute cupcake place and then while we were driving around in the car to give Addison a little chance to nap, we spotted a circus tent in a mall parking lot, so we ended up the night with Circus Vargas!

On Sunday, we ate a yummy breakfast and then rode a gondola up the mountain and Addison got her first chance to see snow! It was very windy up there and the snow was more ice, so not very good for making snowmen, snow angels or snowballs like we had promised. She liked it for about 30 minutes then was ready to "go bye-bye!"

It was fun to get away for the weekend and just spend time together!

Update

Her favorite princess dolls and beautiful gold dress from grandma!

We spent forever at these statues at the zoo. Who cares that there are gorillas walking right in front of us!

My beautiful princess!

Fashion diva

It's been a few weeks since I've posted.. Since we went back to work, life has been hectic! Addison continues to make us laugh. Some of her funny things lately..

-When you do something she doesn't like she says "Don't ever ever ever do that again!" and shakes her finger at you.

-Everything is princess these days so she's always reminding me, "I'm Ariel, mommy" or "You be Cinderella."

-Speaking of princesses, Addison was lucky to be given 2 princess nightgowns for Christmas. She loves them, but they are sometimes the bane of my existence! She wants to wear them every night so I always need to remember to wash them. We have also had quite a few fights about wanting to wear them to her babysitter's or out on errands. I have compromised occasionally and she can wear it over her outfit in the car and then we'll take it off and she can put it back on when we get into the car. Most days she has been happy just leaving it on her chair until we get back home and then she immediately will put it back on. Such a girly girl!

-We have been trying to work on potty training. I got a little basket of "surprises" that we put in the bathroom to get her motivated. It's working well, but now she's smart and will pee a little bit to get a surprise then sit down and pee more to get another surprise. Last night she peed 4 times in 10 minutes before bath time! I think it's time for us to save the surprises for pooping now :)

This is such a fun age! We love how much she talks and plays and pretends!