Pull the chair out, girl!

Halfway up and stuck...now what?


Back down she goes...

Looking for trouble...

My little troublemaker is standing at the door to our master bathroom - where she knows she's not allowed to be without Mommy or Daddy!


She still believes that I won't know what she is doing if she can't see me...so she decided to shut the bedroom door on me so I wouldn't see her go into the bathroom... it didn't work in her favor, but I have to give her credit for trying!

Rocking Baby

Addie's rocking chair was a gift from Grammy and Pampy for her birthday, but she didn't pay much attention to it until about a month ago. I found her sitting in her rocking chair in the dark in her room one morning, giggling as she made it rock back and forth! Now it's a frequent stop for her during the day, usually with a good book to read or a teddy bear to love!

Teach them well...

Addie put her hat on one day and carried my purse around the house jabbering up a storm. After a little while she came out of our bedroom with a pair of my flip-flops, handed them to me and said "bye-bye". It was so cute I put her in the car and drove around town just so she could think we had gone "bye-bye"! It amazes me how quickly little ones pick up on things - now anytime Ryan or I put our shoes on Addie dances around saying "bye-bye, bye-bye"! She is my daughter...I have taught her well...now to teach her "shop, Daddy, shop"!

Cousin Mia

Here are pics of our newest neice, Mia Davett. She was born July 5th, weighed 6lbs. 11 oz. and was 21" long. Addie was a little jealous when I held Mia, but she had Daddy to comfort her!

4th of July

We spent 4th of July weekend in Indy with Ryan's family and had lots of fun! We went downtown (well...close to downtown!) to see fireworks with some friends. Addie didn't pay much attention to the fireworks, but had fun watching her cousins's antics and performing a few antics of her own! Ryan's sister gave birth to a beautiful little girl on the 5th and it was nice to be in town and meet Mia Davett. I'll post pictures of Mia in my next post!

Spoiled Girl

This picture is from the same night as the previous post. My dad has a theory that his vehicle is preprogrammed to stop at Captain Sundae's Ice Cream Shop after every visit to Holland State Park. It can't be helped - the van turns into the parking lot on it's own...
Anyway, Gramma and Papa bought Addie her first ice cream cone - she loved it! It didn't take her long to take it out of my hands and eat it herself- Miss Independent these days! After a while she decided she liked the cone better than the ice cream and ate it from the bottom up!
We had such a great time that night and hopefully there will be many more visits to the beach and Captain Sundae in the years to come!

Catch up

I have finally been able to get our pictures off our computer onto cd's so I'll be able to start catching up with the blog! This is a picture from when Addie and I were at my parents house in June. We went to the beach and a thunderstorm rolled in right when we got there...we waited out the storm, but it was very chilly when it stopped raining so we didn't venture into the lake. Addie wasn't too sure about the feel of the sand!

On a different note, I stole a link from my friend Ginny's page to get new backgrounds for our site. Thanks, Ginny! There are a lot of really neat backgrounds available so I might change frequently just for the fun of it!