Seabee Ball '10

Melanie & Bill Draper

Jordan & Kendra Verts

C & P....love him so!!! The ball was great! Paul did a great job helping with it and reading the POW/MIA Remeberance speech! I couldn't be anymore proud of him!

Reading Time

Ready for the Beach

I think she is ready for the beach!

Painting the Bathrub Red

I got these fun bath paints a bit ago so I thought we'd have some fun. She is trying to write like I did with it.

She was apprehensive at first to touch it, BUT then...

...as you can see she gave in pretty quickly once she felt it and saw the mess it made. Why do babies love making messes?!

The end product. Yes, not only was the water red she was colored red too!

Ironing

My loving husband ironing his uniform. Unfortunately, he married a wife who not only HATES to iron, but is not very good at it either. ;) It has been awhile since I have had posted a pic of him so I wanted to include this one. Love you babe!

Fun Outdoors

Loving the outdoors! It was nice that we had a pretty sunny day that wasn't too chilly. We hope warmer days are to come!

It's a little early. She 'helped' Mommy. ;)

Putting the chalk in the bag....

...and taking it out of the bag.

She LOVES chalk! I can see this will be what we do a lot of this spring and summer.

Computer

Funny face.

Yes, she is on the computer working the mouse. It is a constant battle! She definitely gets her love of electronics from Paul! Can you see that big grin?!

Putting Shoes On

As you can see Addison is putting Alexis's shoes on her....and Alexis, who loves tv I do believe, could care less.

Now the other foot!

Who Knew the Mirror Was So Fun?!

LOVE it!

She has cracked herself up here. So cute!

Wearing Mommy's Boots

Wonder what she is trying to do here?

Between her gulps of milk she was telling me 'Shoes! Shoes'...meaning she wanted me to help her put them on. She loves wearing our shoes.

Perfectly content with her milk and 'Mommy's shoes'.

Where's that Baby?

She is covering up her bear and telling it 'nite nite'.

Pretty girl!

Where is she?!

There she is!

AGM 18 Months Old!

So very hard to get a good pic! You may be wondering why Addison is in her bathing suit, it is because she is going to have her first beach experience! That is right, she will get to play in the sand and run on the beach! It will probably be too cold to play in the water, but that is ok. I am so excited to see how she reacts to the sand and the water.

Here we are at another month older and closer to turning the BIG #2! Only 6 months to go. Wow, our baby girl sure is growing up so fast as I say every month. I look at her in the morning sometimes and think my, how she has grown over night! She is looking more and more like a little toddler to me instead of a little baby...BUT she will ALWAYS be my baby no matter how grown she gets! :)

To celebrate her 18 months of precious life here are 18 things about our sweet little Addison Grace:
1) She is VERY active and curious.
2)I call her my little monkey because she likes to climb anything and everything. She will then repeat me and say 'money' meaning monkey. LOL.
3)She has a huge vocabulary for her age. Some new words: monkey, light, light off, don't want it, want it, more, tickle tickle, bubble, hot, owl, bites.... She is starting to put more words together to make short sentences. :0
4)Some new favorite foods are grapes and oranges...that is right! I FINALLY got her to eat the whole piece of fruit and not spit it out....she is funny about textures...I have mentioned this before. Now, I just have to work on grape tomatoes. Anyway, I just kept being persistent and now she LOVES grapes especially. Other favs are curly pasta (she will eat it plain even!), cucumbers, pancakes and sausage, rice, green beans (she will eat cold), and pizza. Enough talk about food, this is making preggo hungry! ;)
5)She loves the outdoors.
6)She loves books and brings them to me ALL day long to read to her. I cannot tell you how many times I read to her a day. She will say 'book, book...'
7)She is 32" tall and in the 30th %. She has come up in percent in her height since her last appointment.
8)She weighs 21 lbs and is in the 10th %. She came up in percent also from 5% to 10% now. Looks like she is just going to be petite.
9)She loves to be tickled! She will even grab your hands to tickle her. Too cute!
10)She trys to dress herself.
11)She loves her baby dolls and plays with them everyday. When we go to playgroup she loves loving on the little babies there. She is very maternal. She pats the babies softly and gives them kisses....real and fake babies! Last night I heard her kissing her baby doll several times. It was so cute and she was trying to dress it.
12)She loves dogs! Not just her dogs, but all dogs. I think she is going to be an animal lover! Wonder who she got that from?!
13)Puzzles are so fun! Even though she can easily do her puzzles now she still enjoys playing with them.
14)She loves going bye-bye, especially playgroup! She is my social butterfly. She goes up to the other moms and sits in their laps and plays with everyone. She tells everyone hi wherever we go. They all smile and think it is cute, which is it. No, I am not biased at all! ;)
15)She can eat pretty good with a real fork.
16)She loves bubbles.
17)Some of her new favorite songs are The Wheels on the Bus (she loves part where the horn going beep, beep and she says 'beep, beep'), and Istsy Bitsy Spider.
18)Her smiles and laughs are the SWEETEST things EVER!!!!

Happy 18 months Addison Grace! Mommy and Daddy love you soooo much baby girl and are so blessed to have you in our lives!

Reading is Fun

Addison LOVES to read. She brings me books ALL day long to read to her, she says 'book, book'...
This one in particular has Owls in it and she can now say Owl. I tell her that is one of her Me Ma's favorite animals. ;)

Valentine & Elmo

Lovin' the eyes on her valentine from Dar Dar and Shelby. She played with that thing forever.

Elmo is one of Addison's favorite's! She is kissing him here. She will carry him around like a baby. Good one mom!

Pressing his foot to make him talk.