Miss Sassafrass

Addie longs to be a "big" girl! More and more I see her being stubborn about the way she wants things. What she wears, what bow goes in her hair, and her shoes all have to be picked by her. I've stuck to my guns on giving her a choice between 2 of my choices because she'd be wearing some ridiculous things out otherwise! Addie has to wear her sunglasses if I do, she wants to carry a purse, eat her food in the same way I do (she insisted on mustard-so I insisted on a bib, a sandwich with 2 pieces of bread instead of one folded in half, etc). She is using the big potty now, even public potties which is a huge step in the big girl direction for her. Her little bjorn potty was getting to be ridiculously too small. Addie insists on doing the whole potty routine by herself. I keep forgetting to buy a little step stool so she can get up on the pot by herself as that is a touchy thing with her... she doesn't want my help with anything potty related and gets really upset when I insist on helping with well... you know... certain potty times. I have got to get her out of pull ups though when we are out in public. Just the thought of pee all over my groceries has kept me buying them.

Friday night we went to the Alabama Vipers first home game. We bought season tickets again this year, and we are back to our front row seats which we love but are not going to be able to get next year when we have to buy another seat! We bought dinner there because my nap went a little too long and we had to leave as soon as we woke up, and Addie insisted on carrying her own pizza to her chair too. Addie got really into the game the second we got there and danced, clapped, and cheered the whole time. The cheerleaders pass around stickers for under the kids eyes so they can be like those on the team, and Addie got really excited about hers... There were a few bigger girls sitting next to us who had them, so Addie needed to be like them. The Vipers won and it was a great game.

We go out to the car and found that Jarom had left the lights on (which is really hard to do when the lights are automatic...) so we had to get a jump. When we finally made it home, I got Addie changed in her pjs and she refused to let me take off her sticker. The only way I could bribe it off of her was to take a picture of her first and then to "save" the sticker for the next day. Luckily the sticker got "lost" that night! Oh and notice her pink polka dotted sparkly toe nails... she is really excited to show them off.