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!

Toddling

Addison is becoming a true toddler. Must be watched at all times. I'm pretty sure she threw away my drivers license.

She has 2 teeth on the bottom, the two on the top are there we can see the bumps but have yet to break thru the gums. Which consequently makes her grumpy. Yesterday afternoon she was inconsolable. I tried holding her, playing with her, books, toys, food, milk. Nothing. I started digging through drawers trying to find something she could play with that she couldn't impale herself or others with and I found some nail polish. I used to paint her toe nails all the time so I thought we'll try this. As soon as she saw it she stopped crying and sat down and put out her toes. We painted her nails, blew on them, she showed them off to Devion. Perfectly content after that. I have a problem with this for one reason, I think this means I have a girly-girl on my hands. I don't know what to do with this.

There is a small part of me that misses putting her in one place and knowing that if I were to look down for one second she'd still be there when I look back.

She has discovered throwing the ball at the dog. Not throwing the ball for the dog or to the dog, no it's AT the dog. Elphie wants to play for about a minute, after that she' gets a little tired of being struck over and over again with the tennis ball that she's supposed to be chasing.

Her other favorite thing to do is to throw food to the dog from her high chair. Also throwing food in general, like throwing food at John when he's just gotten dressed in nice clothes.

Over all she's hilarious and talks a lot. Lots of jibber jabber, I always wonder what she's saying obviously to her she's making total sense, but we have no clue what she's trying to say.

Games and Food - that's what it's all about

Addison likes Elphie's bed. She will run, which isn't really a run, but a very pronounced bow legged fast walk, and just fall on it. She'll then giggle and roll around a little, sometimes Elphie will come check out what she's doing. But then Addison gets back up and runs away from the bed to the couch, then turns around and does it again. She also makes the horrible growling/screetching sound while she's doing this, which is funny for like the first minute and then it seems so high and shrill that you beg her to stop.

She still doesn't have teeth. The two bottom teeth have broken through, but they're kind of stuck, just little white nubs sticking out of her gums. The top teeth are just little bumps, yet to break through. Addison doesn't realize she doesn't have teeth and wants to eat everything that people with teeth can eat. When we're chopping her food up into little pieces that she can easily gum and not choke on she gets extremely impatient. She'll fake cry until the plate is put infront of her, at which point, like a switch the fake crying ends and the shoving food in her face commences.

Her favorite foods, beans - like black or refried, pizza - especially pinapple she really likes pinapple, mandarin oranges, pears, peaches, apple sauce, tortillas and bread of any kind, pasta, potatoes, most veggetables, sloppy joes.

This is generally how Addison looks during and after eating refried beans.

What's new with Addison?

Sorry I've been slacking in the blogging department.

She keeps me busy...

She has her spots - we volunteer at the Jr. High Youth group at our church. So we're there on Sunday mornings and Tuesday nights. The stage at the front of the room has 4 steps to get up to it and then 2 levels of the platform, with 1 step between the levels. That step between the levels is Addison's spot. She will go all the way across the room up the 4 stairs and go sit on that step. Just sit. She'll kick her feet if the music's going, and clap but she's perfectly content to just sit there. She's also learned to high five. She's kind of done it for a while, but now she does it consistently if the kids at youth put their hand up she knows what she's supposed to do. At home on our bed John's pillows are her spot, she'll go sit on his pillows. In the kitchen she has a cupboard she's allowed to play in, a lot of times she'll go sit next to it.

She loves the dogs. Elphie loves her. Socks, not so much. She makes a back of the throat growly sound at Elphie that causes to go nuts, she'll run in laps around the table the come running back to Addison. Addison squeals and tries to chase her. It's a fun game and good entertaiment for all.

Addison has become very aware of her head/hair. She's always putting hats, headbands and bandana's on. Now she's got more hair so she's always playing with it. Especially when there is food on her hands.