Addie Turned 6

We celebrated with a princess tea party. Everyone dressed up & brought their dolls. Addie encouraged me to make her cake, and we worked together to make it. She is a planner, and knew exactly what she wanted at this party. She wanted 5 centers... just like when they do centers at school. We had face painting/makeup, a crown decorating craft, nail painting for the girls & their dolls, and you got to decorate your own cupcake. The girls were surprised at the party by princess Belle appearance. She read them a story, taught them some tea party manners, and danced some freeze dancing with them. Funniest thing about the day...Addie opened gifts at home. I drove separately once Tim had brought in all the gifts she had opened everything. When I told my sister she said that is exactly like something you would have done as a kid. So, I guess she come by it honestly. Super fun planning this party, but the best part was seeing all her and all of her cute friends have so much fun.  Thank you so much to my friend Chelsea for allowing us to have the party in our back yard. 

Life is Busy

 Josh kept asking what is this about the hat

 show me the money

 this is how she eats ~& she'll do that when I change her

 Addie loved this old school typewriter.

She made several friends who delivered the mail to her, & she'd do her thing with the mail on the typewriter. Then the other kids would pick it up. She was totally in the zone, and it seemed she had her worker bees lined up.

 This excavator was heavy, & that made it hard for this 2 yr old (who is always mistaken for being older) I think it's because he talks really well. He knows lots of words, & his speech is very clear. Even though it was heavy he was determined to do it.

She is just always happy doing whatever

She is loving to pull herself up & stand.

From the moment we walked into busy kids- Josh had his eye set on this mower.

It kind of made me laugh because we have one at home. This place was hopping...it actually took the kids 10 or 15 minutes to warm up because it was sooo jammed packed. It wasn't until the second hour we were there that he spotted the mower unattended, and when he did he was happy happy happy. After he got home he was still talking about some girl who took the mower away. When I asked how he got it back, & what happened he said, "I got it back."

Nanny's 79th birthday at Farrell's Ice Cream

 Josh looked so cute walking in with great grandpa

The whole clan that night 

Nora was well fed & taken care of by these ladies

She was a chocolaty sticky mess at the end of it all

Nanny: they said she was such a sweet lady it was giving them a toothache

& sand do wa diddy diddy dum diddy dee

A good day ends with a story! 

Both kids were a bit of a hot mess. Addie did not want her photo taken. She looked so cute she had grabbed a huge pillow to prop her legs up & a blanket. Josh wanted to get in on it too. They were all hopped up tickling each other. Addie kept trying to take Josh's ball away. He said, "I'll throw it at your face." He's a real sweetheart usually, and then you get a duzy out of him. 

This only show a portion of our day. But literally the days are packed full of fun and frustration! Usually the day starts at 6 or shortly after because the summer sun rises then, & that's when Josh likes to get up no matter what time he's put to bed. Nora sleeps later than Josh & Addie half of the time. If Addie has the chance she seems to like to sleep in too. So, the day starts early: breakfast, get everyone dressed, basketball, books, puzzles, bike rides this all can and does happen before 9 am. Nora naps around 9. I get everything cleaned up. Do some laundry. Get some school work done...try to play some more games. By 11:00 run errands, go swimming, to the park or on a field trip. 1:00 naps-2:30 or 3. Try to make dinner. snuggle those babies after naps always one of my favorite parts of the day. Dance a little do a science project, watch one more show. Play in the back yard hitting some baseballs, shoot some soccer goals. Try to make sure Nora doesn't eat too many rocks. She loves to sneak into the dirt. Then happy hour when dad gets home around 6:30 or 7. Another day in paradise. 

The Cameron Park Fireworks

Ethan, Addie, Ava, Erika, Josh, Tim & Ryan

 Addie

 Ethan

Addie & Ava

Josh (he was not a fan of fireworks they made him very nervous)

Our good friends the Ochsner's invited us to watch fireworks with them. 

We did a few small fireworks before we left for the big show in Cameron Park.

November 2013

 Pre-Thanksgiving Dinner at the River House. Adrian smoked a delicious turkey. Scott is getting ready to leave for boot camp. So, everyone was together one last time. Kids had fun playing together. Nora is all swaddled up feeling cozy.

Turkey Treats we made with our friends the Chavez's 

School Thanksgiving dinner. The kids were suppose to bring an item of their choice that is a family tradition. Addie wanted me to make 10 layer rainbow jello. The entire time at the feast she kept asking when is it time for jello. I had brought Josh and Nora. Josh was running around like a crazy man.

 We headed where things are bigger & better for Thanksgiving. Texas was good to us. However, we had a homealone experience where our alarms didn't go off. We left an hour late. Tim backed into his car & broke the mirror off. They let me on the flight to save seats then kicked us off. Never again will I not be the first to do online check in BOO! They had overbooked the flight. I cried... I was sure there was someone better to kick off that flight. We made some $ because of it. When we finally got on our flight; the flight was just getting in the air. I was holding Nora, and Addie says, "Mom my tummy feels sick." Then she threw up... luckily there was a tender mercy (one of my young women was in the 3rd seat) She totally helped me clean Addie up. Kids did great on the flight. Once we got to Texas we barley made it by the way. When we stopped down in Amarillo there was snow, & they kept de-icing the plane I didn't think we were going to make it. Oh yeah & I had to have a middle seat with Nora in between two of the nicest guys. They loved Nora... because she is the nicest baby ever. She did not make one peep. I was so nervous being in the middle these guys were big & when I first sat down they didn't seem friendly. The second day we were there we stayed in a big storm came in. We took Addie to the American Doll store she was thrilled. Josh got to go to this cool place where they had lots of trains set up. He was so loud squeeling with delight. Thanksgiving was fun & my sister made delicious food. The boys were so nice to do art with Addie. I think she used all the paper in the house. Josh was upset when the boys would play defense on him in basketball. He kept yelling at them to lower the hoop too. We played some fun games. The littles watched a fun christmas show. We had a family friend Lauren come over for dinner. OH and Tim's identity got stollen. We were hit by the target scammers.