It's Been Forever

Since I blogged a picture! Seeing Addie in comparison to babies makes me realize how big Addie is getting. Her 12-18 month pants are still huge in the waist, bum, and legs, but are now getting too short. Why don't they make tall lengths in baby clothes like they do for kids? Addie is growing too fast and is into climbing on everything. She thinks the house is a jungle gym and I am constantly pulling her off the back of the couch, coffee table, the shelves in the bathroom, pretty much everywhere. She knows how to climb off beds and can no longer be contained.

Addie & Maclane playing Ring Around The Rosie...it was too cute!

Addie also has become fascinated with makeup. She occasionally finds away to climb up to wherever I think it is safely stored and will apply it.

Addie repeats most anything you ask her to now when she is in the mood. If she's not in the mood, forget it. You'd think she didn't say a word. She thinks its funny to say "no" and says it so sweetly. A few of the words she has been saying a lot lately are ssshhhhuus (shoes), elloow (yellow), up, tott (Scott), kitty, hungry (or numnum) among others. She's got a pretty good vocabulary now and can communicate really well with us (or at least with me and Jarom). Her phrases include "Where'd dad go" (or "Where'd _whatever_ go") "I'm here" "I want dat" "all done" "I'm hungry" & "what you doing". She's always saying something new and making us laugh, I've started writing down all of her words and phrases, and the list is getting pretty long, which is good because I couldn't remember even half of what she said until I started making a list as she would say things (Thanks Carly for the good idea!!).

When Maclane came over to our house a few weeks ago we discovered they had almost the exact same dress, so I changed Addie into hers.

Addie has learned the art of manipulation and can pitch quite the tantrum. She will throw herself down, look around to see if anyone is watching, then if we are, she'll cry. I've learned to ignore her or walk off and she will fuss for a second or two and then gets up and follows after me. Addie has become a handful at church and I've had to resort to serious bribes to get her to sit and be quiet (i.e. M&Ms during RS). Only a few more weeks until she's old enough for nursery. I am in disbelief that she'll be 18 months old soon. I am really nervous about sending her... all of the germs, runny noses, dirty toys, and bullies...ahhh!!! My germaphobic side is going nuts!

Addie and Maclane love each other SO much, it is so sweet to see them play.

I love this picture of Maclane.
Oh and finally a couple of cute things Addie has done lately. She adores shoes. She has been really good at repeating words lately, so I try to tell her what most things are. We went to the mall with Ashley and Maclane today and Addie saw the little girl shoes and got super excited "ssshuus ssshuus mom!!!" and kept repeating it over and over again and was sad to leave. She also loves to feed us and feels the need to do so all the time. Tonight I washed some blueberries (after we finished off ALL of the strawberries) and Addie would carefully pick out two (one for each hand) and then would go feed them to Jarom. And finally... I think we have been eating out too frequently lately. When Addie sees me pull up to a drive through she goes "num num, mmmm mom, cookie, hungry". It reached an all time bad today though when we were driving and Addie sees a burger king building and goes "MMM Mom, NUM NUM!!!". Seriously child.