Has anyone seen my pickle?

This kid makes me laugh.....who gets a pickle stuck to their forehead?? Addison loves pickles, she gets excited when she sees the pick-a-dilly come out of the fridge. 

I think she was practicing her circus act..... 

Addison's hair was getting a little long.....

So we had to try a ponytail! 

This little bag was the perfect size for Addy! She looked so cute walking around with the bag on her arm. She's going to be my little shopping buddy :)

Go Cubs Go

We dressed Addison in her White Sox outfit to go to daycare one Friday. We didn't really think ahead.....

We had to change to our Cubs outfit that night as we were going to an I-Cubs game!! 

The MBA program was offering a free picnic and tickets to the game on a Friday and since I have all the time in the world now that school is over, we said sure :) It was hot hot hot though. SO HOT, that we actually only stayed for the picnic and the poor kiddo was miserable. So we left without watching the game. We got a picture first though. 

One of these days we will take her to a Chicago Cubs game! 

Splish Splash Addy's Taking a Bath

 That's right, our 15 month (at the time) was still in a bath chair! This kid loved the bath chair. She would not take a bath without it. She screamed and screamed. I think she might be the only kid ever who didn't want to give up the bath chair!!

It took a few tries, but FINALLY we got her to bathe without the chair. We distracted her by pouring water out of a cup. She loves to "hit it" so it sprays everywhere and she tries to catch it. She thinks it's super funny when you pour it on her belly too. I think it's hard to bathe her without the chair, washing her hair was so easy that way! 

Also, she is almost 18 months old and still has no bath toys. We kind of feel like we are depriving her...... but she does fine! We will see if we can find her a few toys!

What's on TV?

Addison was so proud of her self for climbing on top of the tub. It took a while and some determination, but she did it! 

Can't believe this kid wasted peanut butter like this! I honestly have no idea how it got on her forehead.

Addison and I went to the basement one afternoon and I turned on Despicable Me. There wasn't much on TV and I don't mind that movie. Addison was very interested in the TV - she had never really watched TV like this before. She loves to watch theme songs, but never sits down to actually watch. 

Some of her favorite theme songs are Cheers and Big Bang Theory. She hears the Big Bang Theory song now and drops whatever she is doing and runs around till she finds the TV. There are also a few commercials that she loves, there is a car commercial with a big gorilla and the American Family Ins. one with Jennifer Hudson that I can't stand, haha! 

I moved her chair over so she didn't have to sit on the floor. She sat there for at least 20 minutes. 

These were taken in July I think, and it's now October. She will watch cartoons more now if we turn them on. We watched Frozen for an hour yesterday morning and she just cuddled with me on the couch. I sat there thinking of everything I should be doing as it was my only day off this week and the next month will be insanely busy. But I just sat and enjoyed hanging out with my kiddo! 

Just cruisin around on my Benz. 

This one is really hard to see but I had to take a picture. She was playing in the DVD's one night and found the movie Marley & Me. This was one of the first movies Ryan and I watched together. I told him it wasn't a good idea, but I don't think he understood. I did pretty good through most of the movie but towards the end I excused myself to my room and just bawled. I knew this would happen but Ryan didn't listen :) He kept telling me, "It's just a movie, it's not real" - haha! He never had dogs growing up (only person I know who lived on a farm without a dog), so he has no idea. I tried to explain that I missed my old dogs but he just didn't get it. 

We haven't watched that movie since. haha! ANYWAYS, Addison found and would not put it down. She carried it everywhere and said "aarf aarf" all the time. She wouldn't let Ryan take it from her when it was time for bed, so she went to bed with it. You can barely make it out in the picture above. I thought it was adorable. Hopefully someday Ryan will let us get a dog :) 

Stylin' girl in her shades. She's getting better about leaving them on for her walks! 

A little super hero

Addison found this mask at Grandma Rita's in a toy box and wanted me to put it on her. I didn't get a good picture of our little super hero....she was moving and talking too fast! 

Took a walk to the park near Grandma & Grandpa's, Addison thought it was so funny that Grandma was swinging next to her! 

She's learning how to bounce on this donkey pretty good! 

We have a Pride Rock in Bondurant, thought it was only appropriate to take Addison's photo here on the 4th of July. We are thankful to be American! 

Slam Dunk!

We have been working on our basketball skills - they are getting better! Addison will go get the ball when we ask her to. She doesn't like to pass much, she likes to take it to the hoop. She has even mastered the one-handed slam-dunk. And then she cheers for herself!

 
The dunk has gotten easy, so she was working on her trick shots one night. I must not have unloaded the photo Ryan took of her falling off the stool and him trying to catch her ;)
We are working on the jump shot now!

Crazy Kid

I got these photos at work one night, Ryan and Addison were at Grandma Rita's and Grandpa Ron's. Addison apparently decided she wanted to do some baking. She has pulled herself up on the oven and started pushing buttons! She also started playing with the buttons on our washer/dryer. She turned the washer off mid-cycle yesterday :)

She has also been doing this for a while. She turns her toy Scout onto bedtime music, piles up her rags, and then lays her head on him. It doesn't last long, but we think it's pretty cute! 

She loves her chair. She climbed up in and pulled the blanket up to watch TV. It took her longer to get in this position than she sat watching TV - HA!

"hhhmmmm.....How do I get rid of this goofy hat without anyone noticing?" 

 There was a fireworks stand by the Ames house and Parker wanted his picture. So we all went! I don't know if Addison was more upset by the gorilla or the fact that I set her down and ran away so I could take a photo!

Love this picture of these two! 

It's the Holiday Armadillo! (Friend's reference)

We went to a dog jumping event in downtown Ames. It was a pretty slow-moving event but still pretty good for free entertainment!