Feisty Mal

Christmas Eve

We were in San Antonio for Christmas this year.  On Christmas Eve, Addie, Kyle's girlfriend Lori and I went to get pedicures!  Addie chose blue for her toes and Lori was brave and let Addie choose her color as well....the most neon pink you have ever seen!  Bryan helped Addie bake cookies for Santa.  Addie, Grady, Poppy and Grandpa fed the deer in the front yard while we got dinner ready.  We had a mexican feast for dinner...Bryan's homemade fideo soup, enchiladas, tamales, beans, rice and tortillas.  It was great!!!!

Running back to get more food...

I attempted to get a picture of them in their pajamas....

We wrote a note to Santa.  We were so proud of Addie...she wrote a lot of the note herself.  She can now write all of her letters!!!

 

We left food outside for the reindeer!

We put our cookies and milk out for Santa and then attempted to go to bed.  Addie was too excited to sleep and said she heard bells ringing.  She started singing Christmas songs so that Santa would hear her....so cute!

Christmas Activities

We had a great couple of weeks before Christmas!  Addie had Sophia and Chloe over for lunch and gingerbread house decorating!  Addie and I made them snowflake grilled cheese sandwiches and we all had a great time...although I think more candy ended up in their stomachs than on the houses! 

We went to San Marcos for Christmas with my grandfather and my dad's side of the family.  My cousin has a little girl named Brooklyn and she is 2.5.  She and Addie were finally able to play together this year and had a great time!  Addie also enjoyed helping Papa open his presents.

Grady enjoyed carrying around Brooklyn's hello kitty bag and a truck...

The next day, we went to Sea World!  We had a great time!!!!  The weather was perfect and Addie is at the best age..she loved every minute of it!  Her favorite show was a toss up between Shamu and Sesame Street.  Grady loved both of those as well and although his attention span is not very long...he did great!  Addie was also tall enough to ride the Shamu roller coaster.  She rode it twice and was so proud and excited!

The smile is for this....

Addie loved the "snow" at the Sesame Street show.

The best we could get...Grady does not stand still.....EVER!

We spent an evening helping Buck and Nana decorate their Christmas tree.

School Christmas party

Addie had her Christmas program at school today.  She did a great job and looked so cute on stage!  After the program, we went back to her class for her party.  Grady was so cute and insisted on sitting next to Addie at her table! 

Addie with her friends, Emma and Sara

Addie and her teacher, Ms. Bre

Here is a video from this morning.  Our video camera will not charge, so this is from an iphone.

Watching video from Santa

Addie watched her email video from Santa this afternoon.  It was so cute to watch...she got so embarrassed every time he showed a picture of her or said her name!  Thought I would share...

Pictures

It is impossible to get a picture of Addie and Grady together.  If she is smiling, he is escaping.  If he is smiling, she is looking other way.  I have just about given up!!!  Here are a few of my attempts.

My pretty girl (thanks Baboo for the pants!!)

Cookies

Addie and I made cookies for her ballet class today. Addie was a great helper and is so excited to share them with all of her friends!!!!

Oh Grady

In the two years that Addie wore diapers, I never experienced this....

I now know why some people use duct tape at nap time.  Yes he is laying in urine...nice!

Update

I can not believe that it is the end of November already!  Christmas is right around the corner and Addie is already singing Christmas songs.  She is going to have so much fun this Christmas!  She has already written her letter to Santa and is excited about starting her advent calendar tomorrow!  She LOVES gymnastics and ballet and practices often during the day.  She is doing great in school and has 3 best friends in her class.  She really seems so big all of the sudden.  Her vocabulary is growing so much and some of the cute little things she used to say are corrected now.  She used to ask for HEB coucons and recently she started saying coupons.  She no longer says she is bizzy after twirling...now she is dizzy.  Yesterday, she gave Bryan and picture she drew and told him to take it to work with him so that he could remember that she loves him :)  When playing ring around the rosies, she used to say pashes, pashes, we all fall down.  Today she said ashes.  There is a little song that they sing on The Backyardigans and it goes, mornings, evenings and afternoons.  She sings, "mornings, anythings and afternoons."  She knows several songs on the radio word for word and knows the name of at least 10 songs.  She loves Taylor Swift and Sugarland!  She loves Bryan more than anything in the world and although it is sad for me that she drops me like a hot potato whenever he walks into the room, I am thankful that she has a daddy that loves her more than anything as well.  She is still extremely sassy and is also polite at the same time.  She "helped" me recently at  a vendor show at the country club and two separate vendors told me how well behaved and polite Addie was.  We are so proud of her and thankful that she is in our lives!

Grady is 15 months old and a wild man.  He is in to EVERYTHING and has already started throwing himself to the ground when things don't go his way!  He is saying a lot more words and it is so cute to see him start to really understand us.  His recent words are backpack, cracker, pretzel, up, nana and thank you.  He walks around in the mornings looking for Addie and yelling Addddiiieee...really sweet to see how much he loves to be around her. He copies everything she does..if she puts on a necklace, he wants one too.  She is wearing a little Hello Kitty watch these days and he insists on wearing one as well.  He runs into the bathroom yelling bath when it is time to take a bath.  He loves brushing his teeth, spitting and then getting his toothbrush wet.  He tries to do it himself and gets furious if you try to help him.  He is climbing on everything from tables to beds and I caught him trying to stand on windowsill that is two feet off the ground yesterday.  He falls and cries for a minute and then is right back at it again.  He knows when he is not supposed to do something and still does it...laughing the whole time.  He loves to take the lids to addie's lipgloss and take it off and on.  However, we always tell him not to put it in his mouth.  He will walk up to me giggling and take the lid off and put it right into his mouth.  He is so naughty but he is so cute that it is hard to get mad at him!  He is a picky eater and still not too into meat.  He has 10 teeth now now and is working on 4 more.  He still naps at 10 and 2 and goes to bed between 7 and 7:30 at night.  He is close to dropping one of his naps and that will give us a little more freedom during the day!  He still loves going to the gym but cries when we get close to the church nursery.  He loves being outside and would be happy if we were out there all day long.   As Addie would say, "he is such a handsome little man," and his giggle and little fang smile keep him out of a lot of trouble.  Addie said today, "Grady really wears me out!"  I completely agree but wouldn't have it any other way!

Grady is always going up to Addie and hugging her.  It makes her so happy..and us too!

Grady and his climbing...

Grady showing off his watch