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Addie loves her shopping cart (poo present). She plays with it constantly. Today for nap I put her in her bed to scream herself to sleep (after trying for an hour to get her to sleep nicely) and she started yelling she needed to potty. I had just taken her 20 minutes before and figured she was just trying to make an escape, but then she stopped screaming potty and then goes "ewww Mom, potty!" Crud. She wasn't kidding. I told her if she didn't get poos in the potty, I'd take the cart away, and even though I guess she was telling me before it happened, I was kind of mad and took her cart away (put in on the kitchen counter). So later today Addie says "mom potty!" so I get her off the chair so she can go and she says "no mom!" walked into the kitchen and pointed to her cart and blabbed something about "want that" then ran to the potty and peed. Then she hopped up and ran back into the kitchen and pointed again, asking for it. I felt slightly guilty for taking it away and gave it back to her. She was more than pleased. Addie is talking more and more each day. She now loves for us to dance with her during So You Think You Can Dance and as soon as a song comes on she looks and Jarom and I and says "Dad, Mom, DANCE!" so we all dance to each song. I've got to get her dancing on video, she really gets down. She loves trucks lately (cruck) and whenever she sees one she thinks its Jarom's truck and says "Daddy woowrk" because he drives his truck to and from work. She also has mastered "where is he/she/whatever" and asks me about a thousand times a day "Daddy? Where is he? Ahh worwk?" She also is fascinated by babies and bottles and says "ooohhhh baby's bot-tle" whenever she sees a baby drinking from one.

I've got a major hypochondriac on my hands. She also obsesses over "booboos" now and whines about her booboos long after they have even healed. She seriously hasn't forgotten a single scratch over the last several weeks and wants us to kiss them constantly. She tells me "oh mommy...hurt...booboo hurt." And one last Addie moment... she has started asking to go "night" when she is sleepy at night and is asking me right now to go night and to get her a bow (we always put a felt clip in her hair to keep it out of her face while she sleeps).

We love summer fruit and I try to buy lots of watermelon and peaches when they are in season. Addie can seriously eat her weight in watermelon. She eats a ridiculous amount every day.

Jarom, Addie, and now I all have colds. I thought I had missed it but then at the end of last week I started to get it. I hope it all clears up before our trip! Whenever Addie sneezes, this is what we get. It is the only time she doesn't freak out when I try to wipe her nose.

Nice.Sam, Jarom's little brother stayed with us last week and we went swimming last Wednesday (Addie hasn't been since she was 6 months old). She wasn't super excited about it for a while, it was cold! She clung to either me, Jarom, or Sam most of the time, but learned it was fun to jump off the side into our arms and we had a good time. I didn't bring my camera (darn it!).

That's all for now. I've got to get one sleepy girl to bed!