Mirror Mirror

Addi had fun learning about the mirror today. She kept hitting her head trying to get closer to the other baby. She wanted to grab the other baby and even gave herself a kiss. I don't know if she has it all figured out, but at least it keeps her entertained for awhile.

Bath Time

Addi is a big girl now and can sit up in the bath tub. At first I had her laying down in the bath but she didn't like the water in her ears and she kept trying to flip over. She had a lot of fun once she was sitting up. She kept trying to pick up the water and didn't understand why there wasn't any left in her hand when she opened it up. She would lean forward and try to drink the water like a dog. By the time she was ready to get out her little feet were all wrinkled.

Road trips a flash back to my single days and a leaf eater

I realized I have not posted for a while. Life here has been a little crazy. Two weeks ago we drove to Columbus, Oh where Jared had an interview. It took as about 9 hours. Addi was great. We just kept handing her toys and snack when she got bored of one and then she would fall asleep for a while and then when she woke up we would stop and and get out of the car for a minute and then it would all start over. Addi did learn a new trick while spending so much time in the car. She learned how to click her tongue and spent the rest of the weekend constantly clicking it. Columbus was nice and Jared really liked the program. I forgot my camera so I don't have any pictures and I am really bummed about it, because there were lots of cool old buildings that would have made for nice pictures. Oh well maybe we will end up there and I can take pictures of them.
Then last weekend we drove to Kansas City to visit a friend from school who recently had a baby (visit my photography blog to see the pictures I took of her baby Abigail.) Jared flew from KC to Rochester, NY for another interview while Addi and I stayed and played with Ashley and baby Abby (Having and Abby and an Addi got a little confusing) Ashley and Jordan took me to a sushi restaurant and I had my first ever raw fish. It was not as bad as I thought and it was fun trying all sorts of sushi rolls.
Jared had another interview on Thursday and Friday in Salt Lake. My mom wanted me and Addi to come out, but we couldn't afford 2 plane tickets. Since she really just wanted the baby and it doesn't cost any money for Addi to go I sent her on the plane with Jared. She was a perfect angel on the plane and loved spending time with grandma and her aunts. I don't think she even missed me and was so spoiled that she probably would rather be back at grandmas then home with boring mom. So during my 3 days of freedom what did I do? I went into work to see if I could get my research project I was doing for school to work. It did work once, but I can not get it to reproduce. Boring I know, but I did do somethings that I did back when I was single. I went to the midnight showing of Twilight and I enjoyed it for the most part. I think it is kind of funny that there was a group of us young mothers at a teen movie. I ran into my 12 year old neighbor. I also enjoyed dinner out with some friends, sleeping in until I woke up on my own and a 3 hour nap on Saturday.
Since I don't have any pictures to show of any of this here is a picture of Addi and favorite thing to do lately, eat leaves. I got her to do her army crawl all the way down the hall by holding a leaf in front of her. If she sees a leaf she is off after it before you can turn around.

Nordic Bo Peep and Long Lost Sheep Costume GIVEAWAY!!!!

This is my favorite giveaway. I hope I win Addi would look so cute in this.
Nordic Bo Peep and Long Lost Sheep Costume GIVEAWAY!!!!

1.99 are you out of your mind

That is right all of you non Iowans can be jealous that we are paying under $2 a gallon for gas. I really hope that gas prices stay down since we are driving home to Utah for Christmas and we are no longer driving a civic that gets over 30 mpg.

Lions and Tigers and Bears oh my

Today was our church Halloween party. We dressed up as characters from the wizard of Oz. Addi was Dorthy, I was the scarecrow, Jared was the Tin Man, Dede was the cowardly Lion, and Tito was toto.
For trunk or treating we decorated our trunk like the emerald city with the yellow brick road leading to it.
Jared and Dede entered the donut eating contest. Dede didn;'t even eat half of her donut before the guys were done, but she was the only girl brave enough to try.
Here is Dorthy and her puppy.

Trick or treat to mommy

Look what I got for Halloween.

We took the plunge and used our insurance money to buy a minivan (our car was totaled in case I forgot to mention that). We got a great deal and it is really nice. It is a year older than our civic so it has more miles, but it has many many more up grades and I love it. I never thought I would want a minivan, but once I looked at them and drove it I wanted it.