18 months

Today is Addi's half birthday she is now 18 months old. She is getting bigger, smarter, and cuter everyday. She has multiple new words everyday. Some of her latest are purple, yellow, blue, circle, and pizza. Last weekend we had a mini birthday party because I wanted to test my cake making skills (which aren't that good). Today was Addi's first official day in nursery (she has been going for 2 months with me). I had to leave nursery for about 15 min to do some stuff for my other calling (enrichment leader) so I was interested to see how Addi would do in nursery without me. She saw me leaving and waved and said bye bye mommy. Apparently she doesn't care if I am in there or not she would do just fine if I had to leave her there every Sunday. It is probably a good thing I am in there, because today Addi got a little beat up on. I don't think the other kids realize that Addi is smaller and younger than her and today I looked over to where I heard Addi crying and there were 3 other kids pulling at her in different directions and whipping her arms. Addi didn't know what was going on, but momma rescued her. Here are a few pictures from last weeked and her 18 month photoshoot. I am lucky to get any good pictures with her anymore. She is so use to the camera she totally ignores me and I have many pictures of her walking away from me.

Cute little pooh bear bumblebee

I took theses pictures to use to promote my photograph business in October and thought they were so cute that I would share with all of you. I borrowed this outfit from a friend and Addi loved it and didn't want to take it off. I am in the middle of making her a funky little Halloween outfit, but I am afraid she will like pooh bear better.

Found it!

I found the missing sd card for my camera, and in case you were all wondering a sd card can go through the wash and still work. That is right I found it in the washing machine when I was switching the was. How it got from my computer to the wash I don't know but all 144 pictures from our trip to the zoo are safe. That is right we have 144 pictures from the zoo don't worry I will not post them all. Mostly we have so many because Jared is trigger happy and takes 10 pictures of the same thing just in case.
The zoo has a bunch of peacocks that just roam free throughout the zoo so it wasn't unusual to be looking for the porcupine and have a peacock pop up.
But there weren't any cuter peacocks than these two.
Addi wanted to play with the animals especially this wolf who she thought was a puppy.
We got to pet an angora bunny. It was so soft.
And the sheep. Addi was a little hesitant to touched the sheep until mommy pet it.
Addi loved to watch the pigs and they weren't even doing anything.
Now how cute is that ground hog.
Addi was very impressed with all the water. Anytime there was water in the exhibit she would get all excited and point to the water not even noticing the animal.
Kitties say rarr.
"Why are you making me do this mommy" by the end Addi was very tired and ready to go.
I was very excited to get to go to Super Duper Weenie. I saw it on the food network a few weeks ago and when I found out it wasn't to far from us I knew we had to go.
I told Addi to smile and this is what I got.

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.