May

Dying eggs at our Easter party

The gang :)

Our bunny sandwiches

Princess Addison and daddy dying eggs

Having an Easter egg hunt

Sweet friends Addison and Cadhla

Easter morning

Pretty girl

Getting ready for the egg hunt at church

At Grammy's house

Riding her new scooter!

Water balloons!

Her "water balloon outfit"

Mother's Day

May is just breezing by! We had a fun Easter weekend filled with church, a playdate with friends and a trip to visit family in Long Beach. We've been doing a lot of water balloons lately-Addison's favorite past time! She even has her "water balloon outfit" that she picked out herself! On Mother's Day, Chris had a surf contest, so we spent some time at the beach together. Addison is doing great in her "big girl bed." We are so proud! We are still working on potty training but she's doing well-just needs some reminders to go. Addison continues to be a sweet, sweet girl full of spunk and energy! She's been directing is in play a lot. Most of the time I'm the little sister, she's the big sister and Chris is our brother-Cracks us up!

April

Kisses from grandpa

Flying her first kite!

Before church

Thanks for my cute new dress, grandpa!
Daddy and Addy making the crib into a big girl bed.

She's doing pretty well with the transition!

Hanging out at the zoo

Big girl panties!

Getting ready for first ballet/tap class!

It is so cute!

We've spent lots of time at the park this Spring Break

Such a big girl! I always tell her to stop growing so fast!

Chuck-E Cheese to celebrate 2 days with no accidents!

At the Ruben H. Fleet Science Center

April has flown by so far! It has been a fun and busy month and also a month of firsts! Addison flew her first kite, slept in her big girl bed for the first time, went to her first dance class, and is (almost) potty trained, which led to her first trip to Chuck-e Cheese! Grandpa also came for a vist while he was here on business, so that was fun too! I'm on Spring Break for 2 weeks, so it's nice to be able to spend time with Addison. She continues to crack me up-today she said "Ouchie! You're hurting my feelings!" (when I told her she couldn't do something)

Addison has a great imagination and we spend a lot of time playing her scenarios (which have to go exactly as she says!). I'm often the little sister, the baby or the dog :)

Warning: Picture overload :)

Addison-isms

These are some funny things Addison said this weekend that I don't want to forget... *She was "helping" Chris convert her crib to a big girl bed and she said, "Mommy, I'm wrenching my bed!" *Today on the way home from church I said, "You and daddy went to a fast food restaurant yesterday" and Addison said "But I want a slow restaurant!" *Chris told Addison not to dump her water on the floor and she come running into the kitchen saying, "Mommy, daddy is irritating me on purpose!" *After climbing out of her crib several times, I told her not to climb out because it's dangerous and she could get hurt. Addison said, "But mommy, I am safe, I didn't get any owies." She definitely keeps us on our toes and makes us smile!

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.