Spaghetti Night

Spaghetti night is quickly becoming a favorite at our house! Addie loves it and it's quick and easy for me to make after an afternoon or evening of teaching piano.
With a little bit of talking through it, Ryan can even make it!! I'll have to add that to his list of things to make if something ever happens to me - right next to frozen pizza, toast and an occasional pb&j :)!

Usually we strip Addie down to her diaper for spaghetti night, but it's a bit too chilly to do that lately. We settle for going straight to the bathtub after dinner and starting a load of laundry when the bath is done!
Oh, and I shouldn't forget to tell you that once in a while we get brave and give Addie her own bowl instead of putting her food directly on her tray. In that case there are towels under and around her highchair in at least a ten foot radius - towels are easier to clean than carpet is!! (ok, maybe not ten feet...)

I Love to read...

...Especially if it involves "peek-a-boo"! Addie will sit and look at her books for quite a while and she just adores the one in this picture. There's nothing quite like a good book!

Christmas Pics Round 3

Okay, so funny story...last week Sears called me to see if I wanted to schedule an appointment for Addie to have her picture taken with Santa Clause - I refrained from laughing and said "No way." After trying for almost 2 weeks to talk to a manager I finally got one on the phone and she agreed to retake our pictures at no cost. We're much happier with them and you should all be getting a Christmas card, with a picture in it :), this week! Thanks for calling, Sears!

Christmas Pics Round 2

Well, this is it...our Christmas picture. I actually am really disappointed in it. The photographer at Sears was terrible and out of thirty shots this was the best we could do. It wouldn't bother me so much if it was good of Addie, but it's not and it really irritates me that after 2 hours in the studio this is what we came away with. I am officially done with big chain photo studios. I'm just going to bite the bullet and pay a little more for Addie's 1 year pictures and take her to a private studio. I've been so irritated the last two times that we've been to Sears that I've decided it's not worth the headache anymore. My Christmas cards are all addressed, I'm just trying to figure out whether or not I want to put the pictures in...next year we stick with snapshots in front of the tree!

Holiday Dinner

We had our annual holdiay dinner at church on Sunday evening and Addie played Santa. I couldn't resist this outfit - it came complete with Santa hat and shoes-neither of which stayed on for more than 30 seconds at a time. I finally gave up on both. What can I say? First time mom, here. I still have hope for keeping things like hats and shoes on her... haha! She was pretty darn cute, with or without the hat and shoes!

Getting Mommy

Ryan stuck Addie behind me in the chair while I was paying bills today and she was in heaven! She loves to pull hair and there wasn't a whole lot I could do about it with her behind my back... Thanks, daddy.

In the buff...

There's not much to say about these pictures - they just crack me up! Addie has gotten really good (or should I say really bad...)at crawling away from us while we try to change her diaper. This paticular incident was after bath time last night...