Going Shopping

Lately one of Ad's favorite things is to get her purse, or shopping cart if at grammies (Tim's moms) and tell us, "bye, I am going to (either) the mall, shopping, or party." I've started asking her are you going to school, or church so sometimes she'll say that too. She also loves to tell Tim to go to sleep she'll sing him a song, and then say good night. She'll walk out shut the door, and then come right back in saying daddy wake up! Good morning daddy I love. Makes me laugh.

Fourth Fun

We have no photos of the fourth of July. And this is why ... we went to a BBQ on Saturday. There was swimming earlier in the day and then we had dinner and did fireworks. In the pool there was this big huge tub for four people (Tim call it an island- it was huge) older kids were jumping on it from the side of the pool. We were all having a great time, and then finshed swimming, ate dinner and were hanging out waiting for it to get dark. All of the sudden Addie tries to jump onto the island in the pool slides off and into the pool. Tim immediatly jumps in with the camera (who cares because he was saving Ad). Ad was fine. It scared her, and she was coughing a lot. We've had a bunch of talks about it. Tim was super close to her, and I wasn't far either. She was trying to be like the big kids and jump on the tube.

She loved the fireworks, and is still talking about them today. She talks about the colors they were. Sunday on the fourth we did some fireworks at the River House, and watched some from the back patio over the river (those were the big ones). That is what Adeline likes to call them. We made a firecracker out of a pringles can, and filled it with homemade carmel popcorn. She loved decorating it, and eating it during the fireworks. I tried to explain to her it is a very special day America's Birthday. So she was singing happy birthday the whole weekend. Today she woke up saying Grammy's house, Pappa, Lily, Ryan, Egg (she calls her uncle Adrian that), and Willy. So, we had a fun weekend celebrating. We are now just trying to recover photos.

Folsom Lake

Sand or sun in the eyes

Working Hard

Enjoying the sand and the water

Fun day at the lake on Friday. I told Ad we're going to go to a beach at the lake. Her immediate response was, "I'll see a dolphin." She's so funny. I then explained there are no dolphins in lakes just in the ocean. She was still excited to play in the sand and had so much fun. She could dig all day. The sand was really wet so she'd get frustrated because it wouldn't come out.

summer nights

Watching the Fountain Show

Running through the Sprinkler Fountains

Getting Wet

Good photos of her face are hard to come by she's always on the go looking down

Going for Ride

Adeline's a busy bee. So we try to keep her busy, and having fun together. We went to the fountains and had the nicest evening. She loved everything. She enjoys being around people, and there is so much there to do. My fav. is the first photo in front of the fountain laying down relaxing watching the fountain. So fun to see what they say, and do. Not so fun is the "NOPE" stage that has started. Sometimes it's funny because she's becoming really independent, and will tell me, "nope mommy I do it" I hear it all day. Not so cute is lets get your shoes on, "nope."

a puppet show

Ad and mom at the puppet show

The stage with Bennett and Lucy (our friends)

One of her FAVORITE things to do is go to the puppet shows at Fairy Tale Town. She wakes up talking about the puppet show. She tells me who was in it, and kind of what happened. We've seen three Hansel and Grettle after this one she came home talking about the scary witch, and the worm. Then there was The Billy Goats Gruff with the scary green troll. She'd always make sure to let EVERYONE know it was a green one. Our most recent one was Wylie Rylie the Rabbit so lately she's talking about the FOX scary, the worm (who seems to make a 1 min. appearance in all the shows) you can't forget he's a dancing worm. She's getting more descriptive because now she'll tell me more if I ask what did the fox do she'll say, "tried to eat the bunny." She LOVES these puppet shows. Her eyes are huge when she talks about them, and she likes to tell everyone about them.

What We Are Up To

Berry Picking ... raspberries, cherries & blueberries

She had her own bucket that went around her neck.

Weekly Trips to the Waterfall Park. She loves the water.

Trying to do the Laundry- it's hard to get anything done with this one around!

Tried Putting Curlers In Ad's hair ... it didn't Work!

I love summertime! Adeline is so smart. She really amazes me. She knows her colors (purple, yellow, green, orange, red and pink sometimes get mixed up along with black and gray, brown). She can sing her ABC's. She can make pretty much any animal sounds. She can say any word you tell her. She speaks in sentences... sometimes not so clear that everyone can understand, but I strangely enough know exactly what she's saying. I love being able to see her personality develop. She isn't afraid of anything, and absorbs anything and everything I teach her.

Baby Sister

Adeline is going to be a big sister. Adeline already adores her little sis:

She wakes up in the morning, and says "good morning baby sister."

LOVES looking at the ultrasound pictures.

Gets angry when I won't let her hold the ultrasound pictures.

She kisses my belly, and even Tim's once.

She will sing to her, and tell her she loves her it melts my heart. We are excited, but have no name picked out. We're working on it so for now she is baby sister.

Trip

We had the best little getaway. We went to San Jose, and took two day trips. One to the beach in Santa Cruz, and the other to Monetary and went to the aquarium. We stayed with my cousin Janice, and had so much fun.

Daddy I saw a dolphin! Ad loved seeing the dolphin she's still talking about it to anyone who will listen and still telling those who don't want to hear about it.

She LOVED the beach! It was so much fun to see her enjoy walking in the sand... barefoot. She does not like sand getting in her shoes. I wasn't sure if it would be a good idea to bury her, but she thought it was fun and joined in helping.

We caught sand crabs. She was brave to hold them, and kept wanting to get them again after we would watch them burrow in the sand.

My cousin Janice had this amazing dog. Addie loved Bailey. She would cuddle up next to her She was so cute. At first she would copy what they would tell the dog to do. Bailey no barking. Then she became little miss bossy telling the dog all sorts of stuff. She kept playing in the dogs water, and trying to sneak the dog her snacks. Sometimes just pouring her snacks out into the dog dish. My favorite was she would talk to the dog telling her in sentences, "Bailey I saw a dolphin." It was so funny.

She was amazed at the aquarium. She loved seeing all the different marine life. This turtle was a favorite, the sea horses (I learned these creatures are the only ones in the animal kingdom that the male gives birth a little crazy), and the penguins were really fun.

There was a really fun Splash Zone for kids. It had all kinds of interactive play things for children to do. She could have stayed up there all day.

She got soaked touching all of the different stuff in this area. She loved it!

Ad sporting mom's glasses.

We ate some yummy food. Had a chance to hang out in fun places and with fun people. We loved every minute of it.

Frogs

A new favorite nightly activity is looking for frogs with her dad. She doesn't like to touch them. Just watch them jump around, and really she loves looking for them. She wakes up asking to do this.

Memorial Weekend

Ethan, Owen and Adeline

We had a fun little BBQ with some friends. Addie is totally loving the water. She also really likes these little cars we borrowed from my sister. Lately that has been all she wants to play with

Where do the days go

To fun swim days Lily and Adeline

Tim and Adeline

Nanny, Grandpa and William (Tim's brother graduated from High School) Congratulations!

Tim and Ad playing at a bounce house on a rainy day!

Adeline before church- I got flower's for mother's day, and she was very focused on them. It was almost miserable having them in the house because she wanted to hold them touch them, and carry them around the house.

Addie's A Princess

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Some fun photos at Fairy Tale Town. She was so funny when I told her she was in Cinderella's carriage. She started saying Addie's a princess.

The HUNT

She even spotted one in the flowers

Becoming a pro at finding those eggs

Adeline was sad to be taken away from the sand table

Carson and Adeline

We were invited to a really fun Easter Egg hunt by my sister's friend Mealine. The hunt was at her parents house in Fair Oaks. It was so fun! Addie even had two tickets and got a stuffed duck and a coloring book.

One Hunt and Dying Eggs

Hailey, Taylor, Ethan, Adeline, Zach and Amber

Adeline got to got to a very fun Easter Egg hunt with some of her friends. At first she found one, and figured out there was candy. It was hard motivating her to go after another. I think she ended up with six or seven eggs. She immediately opened all the eggs, and lost everything inside of them. Her friend Hailey gave her some eggs that were full, and she's been enjoying those eggs a whole bunch.

Tanner, Parker, Adeline, Keri and Carson

We dyed easter eggs with cousins later that day. Funny thing we couldn't get the shrink wrap to shrink around the eggs. I had already punched the holes out of the carton so we couldn't read the directions. It was a semi disaster. The boys were a bit ticked the boiling water we tried to dip them in made the color disappear. We quickly dipped them again, and put stickers on them.

Timmy

We did some potato stamping with green paint... it ended up everywhere!

Another funny thing is she started calling Tim Timmy along with daddy. We aren't really sure where she got it, but it really makes us laugh.

The Way

Usually before bed I sing I am a child of God to Adeline. The other night in the middle of my best singing she joined in. I had just sang help me find, and before I finished she said the way. So, now she'll usually join in at that part. It was such a sweet little moment.

Feeding the ducks

One of our favorite things to do, and today we got to go with our cousins. It was 70 here, and I am so ready for spring! Hooray!