Computer Savvy

Sooooo sneaky. If I leave my office door open for one second, she is in there and on the chair. It's so funny to watch her go back and forth: she'll pound-pound-pound on the keyboard underneath (see first picture), then pull her hand up and swish the mouse around really fast. Then repeat.

I have to keep it locked when not in use because somehow she opens all sorts of weird hard drive applications and code and computer mumbo jumbo in a few seconds of pounding on random keys.

August Pics

Chillin' in her new ottoman

Sneaking some Taco Bell (above). Make that some soggy Taco Bell.

Please tell me if you can view the two pictures (above and below) of her brushing her teeth.

So we call Addy "Coyote Ugly" because she loves to climb up on the table and dance around. She looks soooo proud of herself when she does it. And she just struts back and forth, back and forth.

Two different days, two different messes (above and below).

Deacon is always putting boxes on himself and acting like a robot. He decided that Addy wanted to be one too, so he put a box around her.

Poor thing though, she didn't have her hands free so when she tripped she couldn't brace herself and went straight down. Then she couldn't get up!

She is obsessed with her lady bug hamper and is always putting it over her head and walking around with it. Unfortunately, as I write this (in October) she totally tripped over the handles this week and went down sooooo hard on the tile. Again, she had no hands to brace herself so she hit head first and had the biggest knot on her head. It looked like someone surgically placed and egg under the skin on her forehead. It turned to a nasty bruise....just in time for our family pictures 2 days later Ü

Eating a messy mango!

I think the bow in her hair is a nice touch. This was chocolate pudding after church one day.

Strutting some swimwear.

Tickles from Grandpa Gavin

I looked in on her before turning off her light for bed, and found her intently reading a book:

Deacon and Addy on the Glider

Glider/Ottoman

We finally bought a glider/ottoman. I don't know how we've had two kids without one. We had a lazy boy in Deacon's room for the first two years. We'd read to him in that. But sold it for $5 when we left Farmington. I feel that we've been neglecting the night time routine with Addy. Deacon gets a bath, daddy story time, personal story time, singing time with mom, plus snuggling time after that. Addy.....well, she gets a bottle and then a good night kiss as she's plopped into her crib. We'd still read to her during the day, on the couch or something, but it's never very consistent.

So we sprang for this baby online and Walmart shipped it right to our front door. Now she gets reading time and book time too. I like to sit in it when I fix her hair for church. It has perfect pockets on the side to hold little books too that she can get out herself since her other bookshelf is up high.

Addy

Adelaide runs like a penguin. It's so cute. she sticks her arms straight out behind her and runs around. It doesn't always help her keep her balance though.

She LOVES to get down on the floor and peek under the cracks of doors. Deacon is good about shutting the door behind him when he goes to the bathroom, so she will get down on the floor and try to see what he's doing. Every time I go to do laundry, she tries to follow me but I shut the door (because the trash can is in there). When I open the door, she's on the floor peeking under but quickly pops back up to her feet. The other day I walked into my bedroom and she followed me. She heard the bathroom fan on (I had taken a shower earlier) and assumed that meant someone was in there, so she went to have a peek.

Addy has opinions!! I don't always know what she wants, but I figure it out soon enough with her screams and smiles. Nathan's favorite happened when he was sitting next to her on the couch and Deacon came and got right in her face making some weird noise. He was just being his usual crazy self, but she didn't feel like taking it that day so she reached out and smacked him!

This girl loves her bottle of milk. As soon as she sees me pour a bottle, she waits patiently for me to warm it up. Then we walk to her room and she goes over to her bed and waits for me to lift her up and put her in with her bottle. We weaned Deacon off the bottle at 18 months, but she's already way more attached to it at 14 months.

She has this cute way of looking at you where she puts her chin down to her chest and then raises her eyebrows so her eyes are so wide, then she blinks at you through her eyelashes. So adorable. Her uncle Phil said she looks like a little porcelain doll and I tend to agree with that.