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Adventures in Idaho

We took a trip this last weekend to Idaho, we are coming up on the 1 year anniversary of John's grandfather's passing. Both of his grandparents are buried in Nampa, Idaho. I was skeptical about devoting an entire weekend to Boise, but it turned out to be a lot of fun.

We made a stop at the Old Idaho Penitentiary, it may not sound exciting, but as a history buff, I thought it was very interesting. We could have spent hours there, but with a 3 year old in tow we went through relatively quickly. AND, I was inspired for future GarlickDance projects.

We ate good Mexican food at On the Border, drank way too much coffee at Dutch Bros and Tully's only because we never can. We swam at the pool, Addison had tons of fun, even though the poor thing was freezing. But she refused to get out of the pool. We went to the graveside Sunday morning, then ate at Westside Drive-in, which had awesome burgers, I would say they make the top 5 hamburgers I've ever eaten! All in all it was a great trip, I only wish that Devion had been able to go with us, he would have had a super great time!

Attempt at Blogging again

When my daughter was born I was going to document EVERYTHING, and then I had 50 other things to do and blogging just went to the wayside. I'm going to have to do blogging as part of my new responsibilities with my dad's company, so I figured I should practice by actually blogging about our family and activities. We'll see how it goes...so here goes...

Addison has always liked music. The new game is freeze. We play music and then say "Addison, Dance Break" which means we start dancing. Then we pause the music and say "Freeze" and she says "Peeze" and stops dancing fingers pointed and giggles. Then we start the music again and she starts dancing again.

She says buh-bye. It starts out in her little voice "Bye" then it turns into "Buh-bye" then it gets louder and louder "BUH-BYE!" over and over again, it's hilarious!

She feeds the animals, we tell her to get the bowls and one by one she'll get the bowls and take them to the garage where we fill them and then she calls the animals as she's feeding them "Ro-y" is Roxy, "Jo" is Josie, "E-ie" is Elphie and "Ocks" is socks. She'll also tell the dogs to stay, and tells them to go to their crate. While she's feeding the cats they usually will meow, and she will mimic their meows.

When Gigi was here last month she got Addison a backpack, which Addison calls her "Ba-pa" and will put on to go wherever we're going and take off and put in the car when she needs to get in her seat.

She finally says Jenny which Jenny is extatic about. We call Jenny - Jelly though so Addison calls her "Gully."

She sings Happy Birthday all the time. New thing is that if you're singing and she doesn't want you to she's put her hand out and say "don't"

Catching up

So I've been terrible about writing. Addison and I took a trip to the Bay Area at the end of July. It was the most challenging trip on an airplane with Addison. We've traveled since she was 7 weeks, 6 months, 13 months, and now at 17 months, this was definately the toughest time on the plane because she's much more independent and mobile. But we had a good time it was fun.
Cheech and Addison became friends during our trip. She is such a walker and a runner. She also repeats everything. She learned to say "Hi Cheech" or Hi to whoever she's talking to. She'd said Hi before and she'd said names before, but she put the hi and the name together.

She played in the pool and was enjoying hanging out with the Glavan's.
Also Devion's back and Addison loves him. They're pretty cute don't you think?

Pee Pee in the Toilet

Only when speaking of a toddler is it super exciting that peeing is going on in the toilet. I mean it's always a good to pee in the toilet, I can't think of a better place to pee really. But when thus far the only places that peeing has gone on is in a diaper, on my bed or in the bathtub, it's quite exciting. A couple of days ago Addison said potty and I put her on the toilet, mostly she just sat there. Tonight before she got in the bath I asked if she wanted to potty, I put her on the toilet and she peed! We were so excited, I called several people to tell them. I never thought I be so excited about toilet activites.

In other news:
She has learned to climb onto the kitchen chairs, this is bad, she's going to fall of one and crack her head open.
She's learned how to open the baby gate, but she knows how to open it but can't open it yet.
She has 4 teeth.
She says "hey guys" (we just need to teach her "hey you guys!" that would be awesome)

That's all for now.

Teeth, OCD & Rick James

Addison's top tooth broke through, just one, she looks like a little redneck right now with just 3 teeth, though you really can't see the top one. I'll post a picture when it grows in a little more. She also like clicking them together, which just hurts to listen to, I'm trying to break that habit. We brush her teeth, when I'm brushing mine she brushes hers, we got little baby toothbrush and toothpaste.

She's a little helper, or a little OCD, I'm not sure. Whenever a door is open she has to close it, when a drawer is open she closes it. If we are loading the dishwasher she closes it, if I'm loading laundry she closes the dryer door. She's being helpful I know, but especially with drawers if we leave it open and she can't close it right away she gets mad.

If she's in our room or the family room she'll find the remote and bring it to us, wanting us to change it to the music channel. Her favorite right now is the "I Love the 80's" channel. That's our go to station, this morning she was rockin' out to Billy Joel. The other day, there was a "Little Miss Sunshine" moment she was dancing to "Super Freak" it was excellent. Unfotunately usually when we pull out the video camera she won't dance that much. Which is too bad because it's AWESOME!