Trick Treat!

"Trick treat" was Addison's greeting by the end of the treat getting! She had fun running around gathering candy (even eating a little on the way!). We had a lot of fun too. I just loved her in this costume. Thank goodness for warm weather!

Boiler Up!

I just wanted to share some pics from Purdue homecoming tailgaiting this last Saturday. The game was lame as Minnesota beat us but the time with friends was PRICELESS! Can't wait til next year...maybe we can win!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First Haircut

Addison is such a big girl! A few or so ago (maybe two!) she got her first haircut. And yes we did the whole cheesy thing where we pay way too much to take her to Cookie Cutters for the "First Haircut" package. She just got a little trim (no bangs-the stylist said it won't work with her curly hair-darn!) and handled it quite well. She was beside herself to get that balloon! Afterwards we went and got some ice cream!

The Playground

Hi everybody! We were heading down to the playground in our neighborhood Monday and I actually remembered to grab the camera. Addison so enjoys playing there and is now brave enought to go down the slide all by herself! Grandma Robbins was with us that afternoon, so that was a treat!

I know Addison misses her Grandma and Grampa Speelman! We got to have them around for a while after Mike's surgery. Mike is recovering well so far, thanks for you prayers. You can see him hanging out in the background. I know he can't wait until he can play more with Addison (you know rough daddy style!) but they still have a good time together.

Don't you just love the one of her going down the slide? Fun stuff!!!!!!!!!!!

Sleeping Bookworm

Hi Everyone,
I had to post these pics for you guys. I can't remember when I took them with all that's going on right now. I went in to cover Addison up and found her like this. So of course I had to go get Mike and the camera to document this! Who knows how she ended up like that? I can see why people buy those video monitors now, sometimes I'm like "what is she doing in there?". Enjoy, I'll do some more posting later...

Piggies

I have been very bad about blogging! Things are a little on the crazy side right now. Mike's back is all jacked up again-CRAP! But I meant to share these photos of Addison with her pigtails when I took them like...uh...3 weeks ago! She is so funny and cute all the time (ok, not all the time but most of the time!). I just can't help myself, I just have to bust out the camera or camcorder all the time. She is talking SO much now. Pretty much anything I say to her she repeats (yeah, I know some of you are snickering...) and can say some words that I just don't think most kids her age can say. A few days ago she was playing with her toy fishing pole in the bathtub and caught a fishy and said "I did it!!!!!!!!!!!" It made me cry! She said it with such joy and accomplishment, it made me realize my baby is gone...replaced with such a wonderful, big girl! A happy/sad kind of moment.

Anyway, let me know what you think of the pics. Hope everyone is doing well. Please keep Mike (and the rest of us) in your prayers as we deal with this back stuff some more.

Playtunnel fun!

Here are some pics of Addison in her playtunnel from this evening. She was in the climbing mood (trying to scale the arm of the couch) so we set up this handy-dandy play tunnel (that I picked up at a garage sale for a whopping $7.00) so she could burn off some energy! We have had a nice/relaxing weekend and got to see some friends that we don't get to see a lot too. Life is good!