Lobster Festival

We went to a lobster fest last night. I was excited I like lobster right? Well I like lobster meat not a actual lobster with eyes starring at you as you rip him open to get your food.
The eyes didn't bother Addi she just picked up a claw and started eating.
Addi ate 1 1/2 of the claws and all of the insides (that I didn't even try they were green) She tried the tail but didn't like the texture so mom got to eat the tail.

Even after stuffing herself with lobster she had room to finish off Rocio's chocolate cake.
After stuffing ourselves we burned a few calories by dancing to the live music.
And as usual Addi made some new friends and had no problem going up to random people and sitting next to them on their blankets or stilling their ball to play with. Good thing everyone thinks she is so cute.

Another FHE in the Park

For our 2nd FHE in the park our ward played baseball.
Addi wanted to play with her daddy.
But she could quite make it through the fence, so she had settle for watching and chering on her daddy.


Yeah daddy.

Guy wasn't at the FHE but it looked like another little nursery boy was trying to make his move. He wasn't quite as forward.

After baseball we had some fun at the park.

And tried to cool off at the misting frog, but it was to hot and the mist was more like stream.

Smarty Pants

Addi is a very smart little girl. She knows the sounds of many animals and even ones that most kids wouldn't know. How may of you know what sound a butterfly makes? Just ask Addi and she will tell you it fliuth fliuth. You have to hear it that is the best I can do with the spelling. Where did she learn what noise a butterfly makes you may ask? From her daddy of course. Addi loves to read books and one of her favorite is Maisy's favorite animals. One day I was reading it to her and when we were on the page of the butterfly she started making this weird noise. Later when Jared was reading it to her I noticed that he had a noise for every animal in the book including the butterfly. Although she knows more animal sounds now the butterfly and the lamb were among her first. Most kids moo or quack, but not our smarty pants she flutters like a butterfly.
All fun aside Addi is very smart for her age and we get confirmation of that every time we go to the doctor. Yesterday we went in for Addi's 15 month check up (she is 16 months old but with the move and insurance change we are a little behind). The doctor asked if us if she knew words like dada and no so I started listing off her list and half way through the doctor stopped me and said ok so she is way past where she needs to be. Another bright note from the doctors appointment is Addi pasted 20 pounds. She weighs 21 pounds (13%) and is 31 inches tall (50%). So not that I am bragging or anything (just being a proud momma) but my little girl is a smarty pants and I love teaching her new things. The last little while I have been teaching her to say her name and yesterday I taught her how to say her name when someone asks her what her name is. Its so cute. If you ask her what her name is she points to her self and says Addi. So now she can tell people what her name is and how old she is. Now its off to learn how to write her name. j/k

Our Weekend

We didn't have a super busy weekend, but we did do a couple of fun things. We started our weekend off with a daddy finishing his test early and didn't have a patient scheduled until 1 so he got to come to story time at the library with us and check out the fun toys and meet Addi's new library friend Mia. I forgot to bring my camera to the library, but here is another picture from friday.
Addi loves balloon and so when she asked for one by name (bawoon) at the store I had to buy her one. It is a pink princess balloon, but on the other side it is sliver and Addi can see her reflection. She loves to look at herself in her princess balloon after all she herself is a princess it says so in her name.
Saturday we went for a very large shopping trip. I went grocery shopping by myself once when we first got here and I will not do it again. I like to go shopping at Price Rite because they are way cheaper $1.99 for a gallon of milk vs $3.50 at other stores. The only problem is you have to bring your own bags and bag your own groceries which is fine except for when your toddler won't sit in the cart and is climbing all over the bagging counter. So I wait for Jared. Later on Saturday we decided to checkout the bloomfield farm.
The Bloomfield Farm is just down the street from us. They only have a few animals.
Addi loved the birds the best, although this peacock did scare her at first when it started shaking his feathers at her. The geese were not very nice either. They started hissing at us and I could see sharp little teeth in their beaks so we didn't stay long enough to get a picture.

With her cowboy shirt on Addi looked like a boy and everyone kept calling her a he even though she had on a skirt and the shirt had ruffles on it.
The Farm is really not known for their animals, but for their ice cream. Addi enjoyed her ice cream and even offered to share a little.




Sunday after church we went to an opening social for the Pediatric Dentistry department to welcome the new residents. It was suppose to be a pool party but it was pouring down rain when we got there.
After dinner we had this cake and it was delicious IT was a chocolate cake with real strawberries in the middle and covered in whipped cream. Addi sure loved it she ate 2 pieces.
Addi was a pro at walking and she made her rounds at the party.
She loved Rocio who babysat her on wed when we went out for our anniversary.
And of cousre her daddy. Isn't she starting to look more like her daddy.

One of the other residents is married and has a 2.5 year old and Addi liked to follow him around.
Here is a group photo of some of the other residents and professors in the pedo department. Except for some of the professors Jared is surrounded by women. All the other residents are girls, the assistances are girls and half of the faculty are girls. They love Jared and make him do all the heavy duty work around the clinic.

By the time we got home it was bed time for Addi and time for mom and dad to relax.

Happy 4th Anniversary!

Yesterday was our 4th wedding Anniversary. A lot has happened over the past year. We got married moved to Iowa a week later, started dental school, bought a house, got a dog, got sealed in the Nauvoo Temple, got pregnant, had a baby, graduated from dental school, move to Connecticut. There was little adventures in between all of that, but that was the main things.
One of Jared's co-residents had said that she wanted to babysit sometime if we wanted to go out so she came over and played with Addi and we took full advantage of having a babysitter and did things we hardly ever do. First we went out for a fancy expensive dinner. We did that last year, but the food wasn't really worth the $25 (that is an expensive dinner for us) it was just another chicken. This year the food was totally worth the money. It has totally changed my mind about going to fancy restaurants. I got the surf and turf special. It was a fillet Mignon topped with lobster meat and a creamy pesto like sauce served with mashed potatoes and organic asparagus arranged so pretty on my plate. I think I have been watching to many cooking show which isn't that many, because I kept thinking how well the different textures and flavors of the meal went so well together. I was either really really hungry or it was the best dinner I have had. Jared wasn't to thrilled with his sirloin, but my meal made up for the that. After dinner we went to see the new Harry Potter movie It was good, but it wasn't the best movie I have ever seen and I wouldn't even say it was better than any of the other Harry potter movies. It was a great date night with my husband and I wish we could do that more. One day when we make some money we can have more than one fancy date night a year. I love you hunny here's to 4 more and even more after that.

16 months old

Our baby girl turned 16 months old today. She is getting so big and accomplished a lot this lat month. She loves to go swing on the swings and she never wants to leave. We spend almost an hour out on the swings everyday, so we can only go on days we don't have a lot going on.


Daddy was on call all week but was able to take a break from his very busy Saturday to go to the swings with us.

Addi likes to feed herself. It gives me a chance to eat something myself, but it usually leaves a mess to be cleaned up, but I think that she looks mighty cute all \messy.

Addi learned how to take her diaper off and would take it off anytime I put her done for a nap or for bed, so now she an not got to bed without a onesie. Luckily we have only had a problem with wetting the bed and there was no pooping without a diaper on except when she went poop in the potty. Yes, Addi has gone pee in the potty a few times and poopy once. She loves to sit on her potty and I let her and sometimes she goes and sometimes she doesn't we are just taking the potty training slow and letting Addi decide when she wants to go to get her use to the potty.

Besides walking as seen in earlier post Addi loves to climb and will climb on anything.
This is what happens when I leave the room to check on dinner. We found fishy crackers in our salad.

Addi loves her daddy and likes when he reads her books. Jared is brushing up on his Spanish and since a lot of his co-residents speak Spanish they have been speaking Spanish, so I got some Spanish/english board books from the library for him to read to Addi.
I have made some new props for my photography business and Addi has had to be model to test them out.

Addi absolutely loves yo baby yogurt and cries at the fridge multiple times a day for yogurt. Some how she know the different flavor and is very particular about which one she wants at that time.

Addi sprouted 3 teeth this month her 2 front bottom teeth and one lateral incisor. Her top front incisors are about to poke through and I hope they come through soon because she looks like a snaggle tooth.


Addi loves it her and has adjusted to her new home very well. She has made some friends at church and at story time at the library. She is learning new words everyday. Her vocabulary consist of
daddy, dada, mama, tito, bampa, uh-oh, soft, eyes, bye, hi, hello, baylee, potty, light, ball, happy, wow, weee, button (for belly button), No, don't. I am sure there is more she repeats lots of words that we tell her and she can sign finish, more, and food. We love her and can't wait to see what she learns next.

200 posts in 2 years

This is our 200th post. I started this blog 2 years ago. I was exactly 2 years ago today that we found out we were pregnant at Walmart in Arroyo Grande, CA. Yes, I took a pregnancy test in the Walmart bathroom. I had just bought the test and I had to pee so why not. I never wrote on the blog until we official announced that we were pregnant because lets face it our lives by themselves were not blog worthy until we were having a baby. I am sure that if you go back through our 200 posts you would find that the majority of them revolve around Addilyn. So why should our 200th post be any different. We needed something really exciting to blog about for this and the other day Addi gave us just that.

Yes that is Addi's pee in her big girl pink potty. I bought her this potty awhile ago, but never got it out because she is still a baby. Well the other day I decided to get it out and see what she thought. She was making her I am going to try and poop face so I took her diaper off and set her on the potty. She tried for awhile, but it was a no go. (she sometimes has trouble going number 2) Later that night she wanted to show daddy her big girl potty so we let her sit on it and she went pee. I don't know if it will amount to anything, but at least it is a start. If she was old enough to tell me she had to go potty I might actually proceed with the potty training. Well we are off to try the potty again since Addi now almost has her diaper off by herself.