Once Upon the Myers

Monday, November 21, 2011

Santa Pictures 2011

Addison was very excited to see Santa Clause and said this multiple times on Saturday. When she saw him she said hello and waved excitedly. But she did not want to sit on his lap...I felt a little guilty making her but figured it was a rite of passage. Until this year we were 2-0 for Santa pictures (2009 and 2010) and 0-2 school pictures (although not smiling and happy at least she took them). The tables have turned :)

Picture 1

Picture 2 (Picture 4 really but they didn't give us the ones of her grabbing me - I am to the right of the chair)

Last picture - she was like whatever let's get this over with and go get a cookie

Monday, October 31, 2011

Trick or Treat!

This year Addi was a butterfly for Halloween. She was excited to dress up and kept saying, I'm a beautiful butterfly. Yesterday we went to a church down the street for a Halloween festival and Trunk or Treat. Addi enjoyed it but it took her a couple of times before she understood that they were giving out candy! She also took a while trying to decide which piece to take and got really excited when they said she could have two. So sweet.

I'm trying to eat my candy...stop taking pictures, mom!

This morning before school. They are having a Halloween party at school :)

We also entered Dylan into the costume contest at our vet's office. She was able to wear Addi's costume as well.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Painting Pumpkins and Addi Updates!

A few Addi updates...

She loves to sing the Clemson cheer - click on this link to hear it.
Her L's sound like W's.
She says Button --> Butt --- "I'm going to push the butt" when she is turning the tv on or pushing the doorbell, etc. But she also knows what a butt is.
She likes to try to write letters and is pretty good at some of them (H, J, A sometimes).
She can finally open the fridge so we are teaching her that she has to ask first, otherwise she would be in it all the time!
She loves to color and paint. When coloring she is starting to stay in one area if she tries. She doesn't have the motor skills to handle the paintbrush and stay in one area.
She can spell her name when she wants to. She will say "A is for Addison - A -D-D-I-S-O-N" Of course when you ask her to spell it she says her name and then says 2 for her age. She will just start to spell it randomly not when prompted.
She loves Mickey Mouse, Blues Clues, and Sesame Street.
She also loves the iPad and can handle it pretty well.
She likes to sit on the potty and gets excited telling us she went, but she didn't :) She is pretending.
She likes to build airplanes with her Megablocks legos - then she flies them around the room.

Last weekend we went to the pumpkin patch and then painted the pumpkins the next day.

SC: Addi's trip and Jess and Marla's Wedding

Here are some of mom's pictures from Addi's stay in SC.

She loves that she can hold Mags!

Mom broke her shoulder the day before we left. She fell out of the swing pushing Addi. Addi was her helper all week.

Addi got ahold of the camera and wanted to take pictures of her Auntie Chelle and Sitti- here is one of the pictures she took :)

Go Tigers!

When we got back from Seattle we headed straight to the rehearsal dinner and the next day was the wedding. It was a lot of fun and a beautiful wedding! Congrats Jess and Marla!