What are you doing this Independence day?

It was just Christmas, so why am I so concerned about the 4th of July? Well I think about the 4th of July almost everyday lately, because we are expecting a lot more than fireworks this 4th of July. That is right, Sorensen Baby #2 is on its way.
ultrasoud picture taken at 10 weeks

Merry Christmas

Gotta love the messy hair Christmas morning opening presents look.

Dad I'm Busy

Jared put Addi on the potty went to get something in the other room and came back to find Addi reading a dental magazine while sitting on the potty.

One week until Santa comes

I am sure you have all been dying to know what we have been doing for our days of Christmas activities. Well they have consisted of col col (coloring) in a Christmas coloring book and playing with nativity paper dolls both sent by Grandma Peggy thanks grandma. On Tuesday Mommy was so busy sewing and just left Addi to her playing when all of a sudden Addi brought me a Toy still in the box that I had never seen before asking for help. Apparently she had found a wrapped present from Great Grandma Keep under the tree and decided to unwrap it. Since I still had more sewing to do and I could just take away this fun new toy she found I helped her take it out of the box. It was a talking purse and she loves it. Thanks Great Grandma. I guess we won't be putting anymore wrapped presents under the tree. The funny thing is that when Grandma Peggy sent her presents that she was suppose to open before Christmas she just carried the wrapped presents around and wouldn't let any unwrap them, I guess she got the hang of unwrapping presents.
Yesterday we went to the dollar store to get a couple of things and Addi started picking things out and telling me they were for daddy so I let her do a bit of Christmas shopping and she did a pretty good job. Since I don't want to spoil the surprise I wont tell you everything that she picked out, but one thing she did pick out was some m&m's and she went around the store telling everyone they were for daddy. Maybe daddy eats to many m&m's if his 20month old daughter knows to get him some at the store.
Today we went to the library and picked out a Christmas movie to watch. Addi enjoyed watching Mickey's Christmas Carol last night on TV so we got Mickey's Christmas sing-a-long. I don't think Addi enjoys my singing to much. When I was singing she came over and stuffed some fruit snacks in my mouth and then when I started singing again she started singing. That is why daddy sings her bedtime song to her and not mommy.

The sixth day of Christmas

Wait what happenened to the fourth and fifth day of Christmas? Well for the fourth day addi got to open a new Christmas board book and on the fifth day of Christmas we hung candy canes on our tree, well most of them were eaten, but 3 of them made it to the tree. So now on to the sixth day of christmas where I traumatize my child. Yes I made her sit on santa's lap. Addi has never been afraid of strangers she would go to anyone who wanted to hold her. Lately as in the last week or so she has started to shy away from strangers which is a good thing, but not right before meeting Santa.

When Addi heard some jingling bells she started walking torwards them to see what it was and then Santa came around the corner and she turned and ran screaming. When daddy tried to sit her on Santa's lap she would scream, but me being a mean mom said just sit her on Santa's lap so I can get a picture. Every kid has one of those screaming Santa picture right? While I got my picture I may have traumatized her for life.

The third day of Christmas

The third day of Christmas was a very snowy day so we bagged our Christmas craft, got all bundled up and played in the snow. At first Addi didn't know what she thought of the snow. I showed her the snow from her bedroom window and she thought it was cool but then when I brought her downstairs and we took Tito out to go potty she didn't like it and wanted to go back up stairs to look at it out her bedroom window.
I did convince her to get bundled up and go outside to check out the snow, but she wasn't so sure at first.
But then she warmed up to the idea and didn't want to come in. We had to come back just to drop Tito off because he was freezing.
Addi calls gloves hands and we can't leave the house without them. We were about to go out for the second time today and I wasn't wearing gloves Addi started freaking out yelling hands hands until I figured out that I was not wearing my "hands".
Addi now likes to get bundled up to go outside, but she still doesn't quite know what to do in the snow.
When I finally made her come back inside she wouldn't let me take off her snow clothes so she watched cartoons in all her gear.

On the second day of Christmas

I am sorry another post with no pictures, but I promise pictures tomorrow.
On the second day of Christmas whats a good to do, but to go and get some Dunkin' Donuts. Addi and I like to sometimes while we are out running errand to stop and get some donuts. It isn't hard considering that there is a Dunkin' Donuts on every corner and I am not kidding. We had playgroup today and hadn't had breakfast so what a perfect donut day. They even had special Christmas donuts what more could we as for.
Later when daddy got home (we got him some donuts too) we went to go rent a movie together. As we were walking back to the car I noticed Addi was holding a Kit Kat. I asked Jared if he had bought that for her and he said no. Our daughter is a little thief. Apparently while Jared was getting the movie she had grabbed it without anyone noticing. I took the candy back in the store and luckily because she is cute no harm was done, but I am thinking we need to have a little lesson in stealing things.

On the 1st day of Christmas

We are having 18 days of Christmas this year just because I decided to start today with a little activity everyday until Christmas. So on our first day of Christmas we took a nice little walk to the swing and then came home and made hot chocolate (or hot milk as Addi says) and baked some mini raspberry muffins. Baking muffins serves two purposes in the winter. One they are yummy and two the oven warms up our house and as a bonus raspberry muffins smell good. I think the raspberry muffins went perfect with hot chocolate and the best part is my husband doesn't really like raspberry muffins so more for me.
On our walk Addi discovered what she wants for Christmas. We were walking around our complex and we past someones patio on our way to the swings. All of a sudden Addi stopped and said Wow! I looked over to see what she was looking at and there sat one of those razer scooters. She immediately walked over to it and tried to climb on. I told her not to touch that it wasn't our and she looked at me and said I want one. I told her to tell her daddy and she seemed content with that and we continued our walk. I love when she talks it is so cute, and no she will not be getting a scooter for Christmas maybe in a few years.

Blog Slacker

I know I have been kind of a blog slacker lately. Its not that I don't have anything to write about. I could write about how accident proned I am (smashed my finger may have broken it, fell down the stairs and jammed my toe all in one week), or I can write about our wonderful thanksgiving we had with Randy, Ann, Todd, Ashley, Toby, Ben, and chase (or Addi as Addi called him apparently she is not as smart as we think every little kid is Addi). I even have pictures, but they are still on my computer. Oh well sometimes a girl doesn't feel like blogging, but tonight I do so I am going to do a bit of rambling. It is 11:30 on a Saturday night and I am all by myself. Why? Because my husband forgot he told a co-resident he would cover their call this weekend and he has been called 3 times today. The co-resident hadn't been called once all week or once the last time she was on call either she is lucky Jared not so much, but we love her anyways and she babysits Addi for us so I will forgive her.
As for the accident proned thing mentioned earlier I have recovered from falling don't the stairs and my toe seems normal, but my finger is still messed up and it hurts when I bump it. I went to the doctor the day after Jared stepped on it because I thought maybe it was broken. They didn't x-ray it and said it would be fine come back if it gets worse. Well, the bruising went away and the swelling went down but I can't straighten it all the way and my upper knuckle seems bigger than normal, but not swollen. I am afraid I will forever have a messed up finger and it is my ring finger so I haven't been wearing my wedding ring for a few weeks.
I got a flu shot and still got the flu although it didn't seem as bad as when I have had the flu in the past so I guess it was worth it. So far Addi and Jared haven't been sick so that it good.
Addi is obsessed with her daddy. Almost every morning she asks if daddy is home which is usually isn't, but the other morning she oke up a little early and Jared was leaving a little later so he was home. She was so excited, but the was so upset hen he had to leave a few min later. It put a damper on her whole morning I am so glad Jared usually leaves before she gets up Addi doesn't do so well with goodbyes.
I know you are all probably sick of me telling you how smart Addi is but my 20 month old talks in sentences and has been for about a month. They may not be really sophisticated sentences but at least she is putting words together. Last night after reading her 3 stories she picked up another book and said "I want one more, please" it was so cute we had to read another one. She also says "where is Tito" or "where is daddy" and then exclaims "there he is" when we find them or "I don't know" if she doesn't know where they are. She is also obsessed with owls lately I don't know why. She always looks for owls in the trees when we go outside. The other day there was an owl on Barney which only heighten her obsession. All day she kept saying barney owl barney owl so we spent our afternoon watching owl videos on you tube.
We got our first snow tonight and it was kind of exciting although I know I won't feel like this come February. We opened the curtains to show Addi and she said "Wow" and then wanted to go outside. We took her out on the deck for a min but none of had shoes or a coat on so we will have to see if it sticks around to do some playing in the snow.
Well thanks for listening to my late night rambles now I can feel like I accomplished something blog wise this week.

Dr. Sorensen and his Elfs

What Dentist do when they aren't seeing patients

A Birthday and the Opera

I know I am way over due for Jared's birthday (Oct 11th) post, but since we just used his birthday present I felt it appropriate to tell you all about the rest of his birthday.
Jared's birthday started a couple of days early when Addi and I made special treats to take to Jared's work.
We made chocolate suckers in the shape of teeth. And took them to the hospital to share with everyone.
That weekend was also his program directors birthday so for the birthday boys I made made a set of chocolate dentures.
On Saturday we spent the day in Boston that you all read about here.
On Sunday Jared's actual birthday we had a little birthday party for him and had his co-residents over to help him celebrate. I made cake balls for the first time (thanks Katie for teaching me) and they were a great hit.
I also made cupcakes with cute little cupcake toppers. I decided I prefer cupcakes to making a whole cake. They are easier to decorate and easier to serve at a party.
But you can't fit 29 candles on one cupcake.
(Fountain outside the MET opera house)
For Jared's birthday I got him opera tickets at the MET in NYC. Jared's favorite opera song is from the opera Turando and it just so happened to be playing at the MET opera house. So we picked a date and got standing tickets ($20 vs $50-$500 sitting tickets) Jared's Aunt watched Addi for us (thank you so much) while we spent the night in the city. We had enough time before the show to do a session at the Manhattan Temple. The show was great I love the opera, although I would prefer to sit and not stand. Someone did give me their ticket for the third act because they had to leave so for a third of it I sat in a $300 seat which was awesome. Poor Jared had to stay standing in the back. We had a great night and would love to do it again sometime.

9 days with the in-laws: CT

October 23-25
This is the last one I promise. On Friday we headed back to our house in CT. Jared showed his mom and everyone where he works and then we all went to dinner.
We went to a Hibachi Grill just around the corner from our house. It was really good
and we had a lot of fun as well.
The next day we met Great Grandma, Grandad, and aunt Ann at the train station to take a fun train and boat ride.
The train was an old fashion steam engine and the trees were gorgeous.
Addi sure enjoyed herself on the train.


We rode the train up the river where we got on an old fashion stream boat and took a little tour of the CT river. This is the whole gang minus me who is taking the picture and minus Cryssi who is blocked by Jared.
Kissing Cousins
The rain stopped long enough for us to enjoy the view from the top of the boat.
All fun things must come to an end. On sunday we had to take Mamma and Bampa back to the airport in NY. We took a little detour on the way to the airport and bought a few things. We sure had a fun week with family and hope they will come back again. We love you!

9 days with the in-laws: NYC

October 21st-22nd
This is taking me way to long to post, but I started so I will finish it. After a late night we decided to take it a little slow Wednesday morning. We slept in and took our time getting ready.
Then we took a little walk down the bike trail near Randy and Ann's house while we waited for Jared to get done with his half day of work.
The trail leads to a nice little bridge and the leaves were so beautiful in all their different colors.
Once Jared was done with work we left the babies with Ann and headed down to the city. Jared had a lot of fun can't you tell. I think he was just bored of my pictures. I had fun taking pictures in Central Park. It was the most perfect time of years for pictures in the park. Here are a couple of my favorite.


Then we headed down to time square and found somewhere to eat before we headed to our Broadway show. We went to South Pacific. It was fun I ad never been to a Broadway show on Broadway. I don't have any picture from inside the theater because our mean usher lady threatened to take my camera away if she saw it. This lady took her job a little to serious. She told us we couldn't lean forward in our seats with our elbows on our knees.
This cool fountain is out side of the Met opera house. I had idea for a oool silhouette picture isn't it cool.
The next day we all went back to the city and took the ferry over to the Statue of Liberty.
Addi enjoyed her hat and glasses I bought her.

This is the original torch of the Statue of Liberty.
We got to go up to the top of the statue pedestal. It was a lot of steps and my legs were burning from carrying Addi up so I am glad we weren't able to get tickets to walk up to the crown I don't think I would have made it.
I know I look rediculous with Addi's sunglasses on Jared took a picture just to show me what I looked like but it was a very sunny day.


After the statue we went over to Elise Island. It was pretty cool. We had fun finding our family names on the big wall.
It was a very long and tiring day and Addi had no nap so we after getting some dinner we decided it was time to head home. Thanks for the fun times Mamma and Bampa.

9 days with the in-laws: Upstate NY

October 19th & 20th
After a weekend in Philly the dads had to go back to work so Addi, Kiason, Cryssi and I joined Peggy and Jim for a trip to upsate NY.
After many hours in the car, during which the kids were surprisingly good for, we stopped at the Whitmer farm. It is one of our church history site. I was really glad we stopped here I enjoyed it and learned a lot.
In the visitor center Addi kept climbing under all the furniture.
Cute mother son picture in front of the Whitmer's home.
There was a big corn field on the farm and the kids enjoyed walking throw the corn.
and playing in the beautiful leaves.
I took advantage of the beautiful trees and snapped a few photos of mana and bampa.
After playing at the whitmer farm we got back in the car and drove another hour or two to Niagra Falls. I loved the falls at night it was so cool hard to get pictures in the dark, but I enjoyed it. When Addi first saw the falls as we walked up to them she said "whoa".
We stayed the night at Niagara Falls so we could see it in the day light and take a ride on the Maid of the Mist.
They give everyone a poncho as you get on the boat and they even has little ones for the kids. So Cute!
It was fun seeing the falls from down on the water and they got us pretty close.
I don't think Addi enjoyed getting wet, but I had fun.
After seeing the falls up close we got back in the car and headed to Palmyra (more church history sites).
Grandma showing Addi the Angel Moroni statue at the Hill Cumorah.
Addi and Kiason had so much fun together on the trip.
We saw the smith home and farm. Here is the gang in front of the Smith's second home.
This is the Palmyra temple and you can see it from the Smith farm and it over looks the Sacred Grove.
Here are the kids with mamma and bampa heading for the Sacred Grove.


It was so peaceful and calming in the Sacred Grove.
Caught mamma and bampa stealing a kiss.
Isn't Addi's cousin so cute. I took lots of pictures of him on this trip.
Addi loved having Bampa here to visit. Everytime he came in the room she would yell Bampaaaaaaa!