Strike a Pose

Addy had a date with her friend Grace Ava a couple of weeks ago.  She got all dressed up to go and we thought it would be fun to do some dress up fun pictures.  She is so precious to me that I can't help but share these pictures.

Work it girl - the camera loves you.  She was hamming it up for me.

Sharing some love with troublepants.

Oh my how much I love this face too!!

Piano Gal

Piano lessons are underway.  So far Addy seems to be really enjoying them.  She practices a lot, when she is about to use the piano, there is a piano hog in the house right now.  ( And his name is Scott, who would have known that Addy's new lessons would give him a chance to learn too.)

Yeah, I can't really explain the sticker on the head.  But I remember the mud pie cookie that left the chocolate smudges on her face - yum! 

Party Time

Last Saturday was our 2nd annual Pancake and Pajama Party.  We had a lovely time with our great friends.  What is not to love about wearing your pajamas to a party, eating pancakes and 3 foot long maple bar.  Come on!

We had the hot chocolate bar again - yum!  (well okay actually my hot cocoa kind of sucked, but with topping like these, who cares!)

There were a ton of crafts!

Then it was time for some fun pictures of all the girls.

I am going to have to keep this one, because when these girls graduate together years from now I know someone that will love this picture. :) 

Just hanging out together.

And then came the party crasher . . .

First - love this picture - the girls look so darn cute!!  But then comes troublepants in the background.  Each time I look at this picture I just crack up because it makes me think of the Brady Bunch Movie with Jan in saying "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia".  Cracks me up.  Seriously.

And some funny faces.

New Shoes

Hey its Charlie Brown!

Check out my new shoes.  I was so excited when I got them I made Mommy put them on me about 30 times a day the first two or three days.  Why might you ask?  Well, there is a lot of fun stuff to do in new shoes.  I mean look at how cute these are??!!




I know you are probably thinking that I will be a model when I grow up.  I probably will.  Look at these legs!!

First thing was see what sister was doing - watching TV huh?  Nothing interesting.

New shoes are awesome for pulling open drawers and dumping things out.  I love the look Mommy gets on her face when I do this.  Priceless.

Then it was time to really break them in . . . vaccuum time.

And finally I tried out some of my signature moves - like wide stance - to see how they did.  They passed.

Don't worry you too can get a pair of these at Fred Meyers.  They were on sale.  Mommy kept telling people that.  Whatever.  More importantly they are cute. 

Leprechaun Trap

Addy has been watching videos on traps and so she wanted to make her own trap and film it and put it on youtube.

Family Music Time

Charlotte loves to pound on the guitar and generally get in the middle of music time around here. Addy loves signing and playing with her Daddy!


 

Sewing

We broke out Addy's Christmas present last weekend and she made her first sewing project.  We had a very good time together making her new eye mask.

Addy is sure we are ready to take on the larger projects now.  I better brush up on my sewing skills.

My Little Comfy Chair

Oh how Charlotte was frustrated when her every attempt to sit in this barbie chair failed.  What the heck?

Sliding in the Living Room

Girls at play:

A Sunday

Just some random pics again . . . this is typical, Addy working hard at something and Charlotte running around trying to figure out her next plan of attack.

She loves to be silly.

Trying to get a picture of her fly away hair.  Now the front is starting to grow in - chunks at a time.  It makes for some funny hair days.  But I love each and every one of them.

Ahhhh.  This is a face we see quite often.  A LOT.  Its her "I am not getting exactly what I want, exactly when I want it" face.  Or maybe her "I don't know what I want but you are making me angry anyway."  Love her.

Trying to get her interested in coloring.

I think, hey if sister comes and colors too, then for sure Charlotte will want to color too.  Nope, just eat the crayon.

Sweet Addy, she's growing out her hair and its getting so much longer.  Sometimes I still get surprised that she doesn't have her short cut any more.

Just being silly.  This isn't hard for us and seems to be a common theme.

Memories brought to you by crayola.  Who knew they were as good to eat as color with!

Memories

So I was trying to capture a picture of Charlotte in one of my favorite outfits - it was Addy's way back when.  I didn't have a ton of luck, she was being all crazy.  But at least I got it and it makes me smile.

I have no idea what she was all about, other then foiling my picture attempts. 

Kid Fun

As you are aware Addy is a reader.  She has powered through a number of chapter book series over the last year.  My Mom found a new series that she is really enjoying:

Addy is also reading the original Nancy Drew series, but that is a little more in depth and this is a nice bridge into that series. 

The Elves brought Addy a great game during Christmas that all of us enjoy playing.  It was created by a 6 year old and it is great fun. 

Its a card game so easy to travel with - we took it to Hawaii with us and played it a lot once Charlotte went to bed.

Last weekend we hit Seattle and Scott picked up a new game at a fun game store.  This game is super simple, but creates a fast pace and ramps up the competition.

We are working on holding one another (Addy) to being a good sport and learning that friendly competetion is good!  Its fun to build them games into our family time.