Rhode Island

On Saturday we decided to take a little trip to Rhode Island. We had heard they had nicer beaches and we had seen this Firewater thing on the news that they do in providence and they were doing it again that night, so we parked up and drove the hour and a half to Rhode Island. I love how close everything is here.
We went to Misquamicut State beach.
It was quite busy since it was a holiday weekend but we found a nice little spot for playing in the sand.We build castles and knocked them down.
And buried our legs in the sand.
This beach was a little different then the last one. This beach had big waves. The last beach we went to was in the long island sound so there was only tiny waves, but this was the wide open ocean so there was big waves and Addi wasn't to sure about it.
Daddy enjoyed the big waves and did a little body surfing.
I was still having headaches so I enjoyed a nice relaxing time in my beach chair getting a tan and enjoying these two as my view.
Throwing sand and running away from waves can be tiring for a little one.
So we took a little nap.
Addi had her first ride on a carousel.
And she loved it so much that she tried to climb through the fence to ride it again when we told her we couldn't ride it again. Mean parents I know.
But she was easily distracted with the other cool things around.

After a wonderful day at the beach we left and drove up to providence to see Firewater.
Providence was really pretty. There is a Brown University right downtown and they have a bunch of old buildings and cool statue things everywhere which Addi enjoyed.
The river runs right through downtown.
And have different World War monuments.


We had dinner in the oldest building in Rhode Island and the second oldest industrial building in the United States. The restaurant only had one highchair and it was being used so our waitress went down the street and borrowed one from another restaurant. Apparently it wasn't a kid friendly restaurant, xcept that they gave you crayons to color on the table, so we felt a little out of place.
But Addi enjoyed the ketchup.
We watched the boats in the river while we waited for it to get dark so they could start the show.
And of course Addi made friends with everyone around. She is telling this guy something about her mama who knows what it was. She also made friends with an old lady that was having her 70th birthday party by the river and I think she thought we were there as guests because she kept talking to us like we knew her and the others at the party.
Finally we got to see the fire dancer light all of the fires on the river.
It was pretty cool. This guy walked down this thing in the middle of the river flinging fire around and lighting big fires all the way down the river.
The whole thing was set to music for a really fun show.
They do this several times a summer every year and all for free. Jared said he wants to go back next year. Anyone want to join us?

No Mine!

It is almost 2:30 in the morning and I can't sleep because I have a massive headache that is making me very nauseous, but what is new, so I thought I would do a little update on the princess of the family. Besides the ME ME ME I mentioned earlier Addi also started saying No Mine! Where do they learn theses things? I don't go around saying No Mine all day. Today she went up to the stove and yelled No Mine! IF she sees something on the floor she will run over to it and yell No Mine even if no one else is around. I wonder if she understands what she is saying or if she just heard some other little kid say it and now she says it. She is a little mimic. She has new words all the time because she copies what everyone else says. Her new word tonight is yellow because Jared kept singing a song about a yellow blankie. It is so cute to hear her say it maybe I will video it tomorrow for you all. Other things she says (besides everything on the list earlier) is shoes with an emphasis on the sh sound, potty, poopo, one, two, three, wee which she says every time she is about to slide down the couch cushions,grandma, frog, Clifford, shush which she tells Tito every time he barks, and a bunch of other random words and letters. She has a new letter everyday. Lately she has been saying Y I think from watching Super Why, so my mom told her she needs to learn B Y U to cheer on the cougars and right then she said B Y U and was saying it all day. If you ask her how to spell her name she says D which is pretty good since there are 2 d's in her name. She really likes all the vowels and W. If she has a paper with writing on it she pretends to read and it goes something like this E I O W A O E D Y just saying random letters. I asked what one of her letters on her blocks were and she say E which it was and then I asked her another one and she said E so I think she just likes the letter E. Besides real words Addi has a whole vocabulary of words that we don't understand. In the car she says mama mama mama until I say yes sweetheart and then she precedes to tell me a whole story with words I have no idea what they are. Sometimes there is a little laugh at the end so it must be something funny. I can't get enough of our little Addi she amazes me everyday and she is so cute which makes up for the times when she screams until she gets what she wants. That is another think where do they learn to scream?

Weekday Adventures

Just in case you all thought we only have fun on the weekend I am going to share a little of our lives from this past week. It may not be exciting as our weekend adventures but Addi seems to have fun all the same and since our lives revolve around her it just as good. What you don't think our lives revolve around Addi? Just ask her and she will dance around the house saying ME ME ME ME ME ME. Don't know where she learned it, but it is her new favorite word. Now for the pictures.

Sometimes we include daddy in our weekday adventures. We went back to Stratton Brook Park where Addi had so much fun swimming in the pond and took a little family walk through the trees. I think this park would e a great place for family pictures there was so many different areas that would e great photo opts.

I guess our electricity in our apartments was some kind of fire code so they had to come in and re do everything. They were here for 2 days and had to turn the power off while they were working so we didn't have TV or Internet during the day. One day we ventured off to the park to entertain ourselves.

I love the parks here because most of them have 2 playgrounds one for little kids and one for the older kids. Apparently Addi wasn't to impressed with the little kid playground so she ventured over to the other playground.

Problem is she couldn't figure out how to get to the top of the slide. It was either a rope ladder or the rock wall.

So unable to do anything at the big kid playground she walked around aimlessly with Tito.
Then I guess she decided the little kids playground was ok and headed back that way.
I was sitting on this bench and Addi went over to the tetter totter and climbed up all by herself. Poor girl needs some friends.


I knew it was nap time when she was zoning out in the swing after being at the park for 2 hours.
Some of you may know I had a really bad headache that wouldn't go away for several days and Tylenol was not cutting it. I finally went to the doctor on Monday after 5 days of the non stop headache and she said it was a tension headache and gave me some meds that work. These meds take my headache away, but also make me sort of lupy and weird so I decided we better not leave the house while I take the meds for 2 reasons one I don't trust my driving on the pills and 2 I don't want to embarrass myself. OK so maye its not that bad but we stayed home non the less.
So Addi helped me make banana cake and loved it when we got to like the bowl.
I bought Addi some Play-Doh at the dollar store and it was brand name stuff.
We made pretend food with it
and pretended to eat it.
We smooshed it into a pancake and made a hand print.
We had also recently bought Addi some side walk chalk so we pretty upped our front porch with some chalk.


Isn't she so cute!
Then we came ack inside and made towers with her blocks
and of course her favorite knocked down those towers.
And now we are eating dads cookies watching a little TV while mommy is blogging. Daddy has a late class tonight so it is a long day with just mommy to entertain. Just about made it all day and mommy is tired.

Sheep says Baa

Since I have no idea what Addi did with my camera's SD card that has our pictures from our zoo adventure you will have to settle for a shoet little video from our trip to the zoo. To weeks ago our weekend adventure was to the zoo and the beach. Lie our adventure last weekend we used a library pass to go to the zoo for free. Addi enjoyed it and would wave hi to all the animals. She liked the farm animals the best because she knows all the farm animal sounds.

After the zoo we decided to go to the beach. However, Connecticut does not have public beaches. Online it said it cost $5 for the beach near the zoo so I thought that wasn't bad. Well, it is $5 if you live in Bridgeport, $20 if you live else where in CT and $40 if you outside of CT. Since our car is still registered in Iowa they wanted us to pay $40. I was not about to pay $40 to spend an hour at the beach and by this point Addi had fallen asleep so we said no thanks and started driving away. Not even 2 blocks down the street was a public park with a parking lot and across the street was the beach. Apparently you are paying to park at the beach not use the beach. We parked at the park and walked across the street and down a block to the sandy area and spent an hour or so playing in the sand and water at no cost. Who would pay $40 to go to the beach it is ridiculous. Addi loved digging in the sand and finding shells. The water was so warm and Addi liked playing in it better than the pacific ocean water. Sorry that you all don't get to enjoy any pictures, but I didn't have my camera at the beach anyways.

Our latest Adventure

So for our latest Adventure we decided to go checkout the Mystic Seaport. Our library has a pass that gets you in free and it was dog weekend so Tito could come with us.

Because of the lovely Tropical Storm Dan it was pouring rain for most of the afternoon. Tito looked like a little rat all wet and I think people thought we were crazy walking around in the pouring rain, but we weren't the only ones.

They have lots of big boats that you can tour. This is a big whaling boat.

Addi liked to steer the big boats.

Since it was Dog weekend they had lots of dog things like dog water rescue, police dogs, and champion dogs.
This is Rufus he was best in show in 2006 and has won hundreds and hundreds of awards the most of his breed. Addi got all excited to see the woof woof, but Tito wasn't and I had to keep Tito out of Rufus's view or he might think he was a rat to chase and eat.
They had a cute little children's museum we played in to get a break from the rain. In the end we ended up back out in the rain but Addi didn't mind and she had fun splashing in the puddles.

Besides the giant real boats they also and little wood boats for the kids to play on. Since it was kind of a crapy day Addi got all the boats to herself. They even had a boat named after her (sort of).


After a fun filled afternoon in the rain it was time for the real excitement storytime with Clifford. Addi loves to watch Clifford so I was really excited to take her to see him. Tito was very interested and went right up to Clifford when he came in.
Addi was a little timid at first and decided to enjoy Clifford from afar.
But by the end she couldn't stop hugging him. I the video she even says CLifford, but it is hard to hear her so you will just have to take my word for it.
So if all those pictures were not enough for you here is a little video of Addi's favorite parts of the day.

After we left the seaport we went and had some dinner at Mystic Pizza (ever seen the movie Mystic Pizza with Julia Roberts?).

And then we drove out to the end of the little peninsula and played on the beach for a min. Even with the awful down pour we had a fun family adventure.



Stay tune for last weekends adventure we took to the Zoo and the Beach as soon as I find what Addi did with the memory card that has our pictures on it.

Happy Birthday Bayee!

A very happy 13th birthday to aunt Bayee (Baylee). We love you and wish we were there to celebrate with you. Welcome to the teenage years even thou it seems like you have been a teenager for years.
Click here to see what I made her.

Family Fun at the Park

For our own family night last night we decided to check out Salmon Brook park. It looked like a good park for our family. It has a dog park, water to play in and a play ground. Well it wasn't as good as I thought, but we still had fun. There are no kids under the age of 8 allowed in the dog park so we couldn't take Addi in with us so Jared took her to play while I took Tito in the dog park. He had fun for a few min until 4 big austalian sheperds came in and started acting like they owned the place and wouldn't let Tito run around so we left to go find Jared and Addi. The pond to go swimming in was all fenced in with a life guard but it was gross looking so Jared found a spot on the bank of a little creek to play in. Addi had fun, but we got eaten alive by mesquitos. I like the other park with a swimming pond better and there wasn't as many bugs and it is closer. Then Tito wasn't allowed at the kids play area so again only one of us could take Addi to play. We still had fun and Addi enjoyed herself, but I will not be taking the dog and the baby there by myself anytime soon.