Addie's birthday

Addie had a great 4th birthday!  We were in San Antonio for the weekend and drove back on her birthday.  She received phone calls on my phone the entire way back...I joked that my phone rang so many times and not once was it for me!  She thought she was pretty special!  She had ballet that afternoon and her class sang to her!  She definitely loved the special attention. 

We had pizza and cookie cake for dinner with Buck, Nanna and Kiki.  She had been asking for a cookie cake...so we brought one home from SA and in true Addie fashion, she liked the icing but not the cookie.   On the other hand, as soon as Grady saw it, he started saying (yelling) "cootie cootie cootie" until he received his.

After dinner, she was able to open presents and she was so excited!!!  We got her a Tag reader and a couple of books for it.  We also got her the Uno Moo game and Skipbo Jr.  She LOVES both of them and wants to play them all of the time.  Grady gave her a jumprope and a tshirt.  Buck and Nanna gave her new bedding and a super cute picture for our new house as well as a new Leapfrog Explorer (Grady broke the one Santa gave her for Christmas) and a Dora game.  Kiki and T gave her an adorable swimsuit coverup and Alyssa gave her some new games for her Explorer.  She LOVED opening all of her gifts and we enjoyed watching her!

It is still hard to believe that she is 4!!!  The drama has decreased slightly but the attitude has made up for that!  It is truly hard to keep a straight face and even harder to believe that these things are coming out of a 4 year old's mouth!  She knows she is acting a bit naughty because most of the time we hear, "sorry sorry sorry" as soon as she is finished with the attitude.

Can you tell Grady ate pizza and cake?

Way too Fast

It is so hard for me to believe that my little girl is 4 years old today.  It seems like yesterday, I was checking into Methodist Hospital (by myself).  Not long after, I was holding the most beautiful baby girl I have ever seen!   Two days later, we checked out of the hospital...drove through chick fil a and headed home to Del Rio.  We stopped in Uvalde so I could feed Addie and change her diaper.  When I took her diaper off, she pottied all over me (both kinds)!  Definitely something I will never forget.  Fast forward four years and we have a beautiful girl full of personality, spunk, and as smart as can be.  She makes us laugh every day and we are so proud to be her parents! 
**she has decided that this year she wants swimsuits with "broths and panties"
**she says ant instead of aren't..."I am a good drawer, ant I"
**she tells us she loves us at least 100 times a day - she is so sweet
**she says when she grows up she wants to be a mommy...although today she said she wanted to write stories...
**she loves books and is dying to learn to read.  she knows all of her letter sounds and a few words as well - I am sure she will be reading in no time!
**she loves to sleep with me and ends up in bed with us every night...we are too lazy to put her back in her room
**she loves to sing and dance...she loves ballet and her teacher says she is one of the best dancers in her class! 
**she takes ballet once a week and gymnastics once a week
**she loves school and worships her teacher...her teacher loves addie as well...she says Addie is the only one she can joke around with!
**she loves to play games on our iphones and would play them all day long if we let her...
**she is into picking out her own clothes...we usually settle on picking out her shoes
**she worships her daddy but is still a wee bit of a mommy's girl!
**she would be happy if I did not ever make her eat..although her favorites are macaroni and cheese, hotdogs, grilled cheese, oranges, steak, and cheese
**she loves chocolate icecream
**she loves to chew gum and is very responsible with it
**she is defintely my little helper and is always trying to please us
**she loves to help Grady and definitely loves to boss him around
**she says she wants a little sister named Jewel
**she loves playing with her friends and has become a lot more independent when doing so
**she watched her first Disney movie a few months ago and has since watched a ton of them
Addie girl, you are more than I could ever hope for.  You make me want to be a better mom every day.  I love you to the moon and back fa-evah!!  I wish you would please stop getting older and stay little forever!  Daddy and I love you so much...more than you will ever know!

Addie's birthday at school

We got to take cupcakes to Addie's school last week in celebration of her birthday.  Addie requested chocolate cupcakes with chocolate icing and chocolate chips!  Her teachers are so great and soooo patient.  Addie was so excited to have us in her class!

My attempt at craftiness!

 Ms. Bre reads thie book, "If you Give a Pig a Party" at every birthday celebration!


                                     

Bedtime stories

Funny Grady

The other night, Grady came out of Addie's room very proud that he had put on a pair of Addie's panties.  He kept them on until he went to bed!  He was also excited that he got to take a vitamin "miamen" and was carrying the container around until Addie (the ruler of the vitamins) gave him his daily dose. 

**Please excuse the pajamas that are a little too small

Cheese!

Grady

Singing in Church

Addie's school sang in church on Sunday.  They did a great job...just wish we could have seen Addie a little better!