Thursday, January 21

I caught my kids upstairs reading today.  They were just playing in Addie’s room, each quietly looking at their own books.  They love “reading” – looking at books and pictures.  Addie loves her magazine she gets in the mail every month – it’s the Highlights High Five magazine for toddlers.  She asks to read it every day before nap and bedtime and will memorize every story.  After she’s had it for a couple of weeks, she can usually “read” the magazine from memory to herself.  It’s so sweet.

Davis is starting to memorize books as well, which makes me happy to finally see him to start progressing verbally.  His favorite book to read lately “The Foot Book” by Dr. Seuss.

(Sorry the pictures are so dark – I still had Addie’s blackout blanket over her window!)

Wednesday, January 20

Addie caught a little stomach bug on Tuesday and Tuesday night was up sick. So we had a very low-key day today - lots of movies, puzzles and laying on the couch reading our magazines.


After I had the kids settled downstairs, I went into her room to change her sheets and clean up (I am the only mom who CLOROX WIPES EVERYTHING when their kids has a stomach bug?) and had to take a picture to remember the sweet scene I saw this morning when I went to wake Jeremy for class.

He wanted to stay next to her in case she got sick again in the night, so he made a little bed of quilts on the floor. When I went in this morning, Addie was sleeping on his chest on the floor. It was the sweetest thing. I never could sleep with her on my chest, but they were both sound asleep.

(P.S. Yes, in the picture that is a bowl in case she got sick again and couldn't make it to the bathroom....totally full circle moment as mom because I definitely remember those gross bowls as a kid. Luckily it wasn't needed and STAYED CLEAN!)

Hopefully we are through the worst of it and will be better in time for the weekend!

Tuesday, January 19

Our ward at church is experiencing a baby boom of sorts (this does NOT include me!). It's starting now and is peaking this spring-early summer! I volunteered to bring some dinners to the new moms and decided to just double the batches so I could stock my freezer. Nothing too fancy - making some yummy soup and some lasagna - easy to freeze and yummy when it's FREEZING outside!

So I've been in the kitchen all day ! Worth it though, to serve my dear friends and stock my own freezer at the same time!

Monday, January 18

Addie was the "Star of the Week" at preschool last week on her birthday. She was cute giving her little answers to the class. (P.S. Why she said her favorite color was GREEN is beyond me. She is my pink, pink, pink girl - I think, in part, due to her older cousin Camilla. Anyway, I think she picked green because it was the color crayon closest to her when we were working on her sheet!)

Sunday, January 17

DAVIS!  STOP GROWING UP!!!!!!!  (Taken as we were rushing out the door to church today….gotta love 1pm church!!!)

Saturday, January 16

I’ve been inspired by sister-in-law Heidi’s idea to post something every day.  I thought it would be fun to take one picture every day (who knows how long this will last!) to sort of represent what that day in our life was like.  Then at the end of the year we will have a fun little snapshot of our daily life in 2010!  Like I said, we’ll see how long it lasts. 

So, here’s basically what can sum up January for us:

This was taken from my front porch – that is a snow drift that goes clear across my front yard (which normally slopes very sharply downward!)

We can’t wait for summer or spring or just to see the yard again!

Happy Birthday, Addison!

It’s so crazy to think she’s 3! 

Here I am on the way to the hospital:

Here she is just one day old:

And one year old:

Last year, turning two:

And this year! 

We didn’t do very much – her birthday fell in the middle of the week.  We brought cupcakes to her preschool class, had cake and ice cream and opened up presents.  She loved saying she was three all day long. 

Addie is a total joy to have around.  She’s got a heart of gold, loves her friends and playing, loves dancing and skirts and anything girly, loves singing and playing with her best friend of all, DAVIS!