Addie is quite the little drama queen these days.  She has a fit when Grady gets near her "work" whether it is her lego building or her art.  Then she will ask me, "Mommy can Grady have a crayon?"  I say, "No" and then she takes much pleasure in ripping it out of his hands.  She also frequently tells me that Grady is tired and needs to take a nap....even if he did just wake up.  However, as quickly as she turns on her drama, she can also turn on the sweetness.  Today she spent a while snuggling up to me and kissing me and telling me that she "loves me faevah and evah and evah to the moon and back faeveh."  It was really cute!  She also said that mommy, daddy, addie and grady are the best family around!  Of course I agreed with her while at the same time wondering where she comes up with this stuff!  Yesterday we were talking about playgroup coming to our house today.  She said she did not want anyone to come to our house because she is the special one and only the special one can talk to her mommy.  She did not want me to talk to any other mommies or kids.  Of course everyone came today and she had a great time and even let me talk to other mommies!

We have been working on writing her name for a few weeks.  We hold the marker together and talk about how to write each letter.  The other day, she was coloring and I went to get her another piece of paper.  She started screaming for me to come back and when I did, this is what I found.

This was the first time she wrote her entire name by herself!  We are so proud of her!  Now she is working on Mommy and Daddy.

Last week, she also got a haircut.  She sat in Ms. Kelly's chair and told her she wanted a short haircut.  We were so impressed with how still she sat the entire time.  She was serious about her cut and she looks adorable!

Before

                                      

After

We are working on a 3 year old scrapbook and one of the pages is for all of the letters that she recognizes.  I got one foam letter for every letter of the alphabet and randomly asked her each letter.  As she said them correctly, she got to stick it onto her scrapbook page.  Before we knew it, she had all of the letters on the page! 

While I was in Vegas last month, Bryan and Addie went fishing. He took her to buy her first fishing pole and she was so excited!!!  She caught several fish and had a wonderful time with him! 

(can you tell by her hair that I was out of town???)

My mom and Denny came the other day for a visit and took tons of pictures of the 4 of us...unfortunately, this was the best one...

The handsome man...probably looking for something to munch on!

It rained a lot 4th of July weekend and the city fireworks were cancelled because of it.  We bought a few fireworks and sparklers and lit them at home!  Both Addie and Grady loved watching them but did not enjoy the noise!

On a side note, when Denny walked into our house that day, Grady crawled right up to him and refused to let him go until he was forced to when they left.  If I wanted to hold him, I had to take him into another room.  He wanted NOTHING to do with me when Denny was around.  I told him that he may need to leave a little early and not come back for awhile!

We have been having a little trouble getting Addie to eat breakfast so I stuck a spoon in a cup of yogurt and froze it.  She thinks it is great that she gets to eat a popsicle for breakfast!  She is now excited to eat in the morning!