Turkey Hands and Feet Project!

Addie and I had fun making her hands and feet turkey! I guess I should say hands and foot turkey since there is only one foot there! The body of the turkey is one of her feet and the feathers are her hand prints. Addie did it all herself.....well....she might have had a little help!

Addie is excited to get started and paint!

Addie doing a little finger painting in between hand prints!

Very carefully painting her hands! We only used about a pint of paint! Oh well....that is what it is for right??!!

Red and Orange!

Orange and Yellow!

An Early Visit to see Santa!

Addie is really starting to recognize Santa! We made an early visit to see Santa this past week and she was intrigued.....not necessarily "smiley" but very interested in this man with a white beard! Santa was very sweet. While we were picking out which pictures we should purchase I heard Santa talking to Addie about all of the reindeer. I even heard Santa comment on how pretty Addie's shoes were that she was wearing! It was so cute!

At this point Addie was ready to go eat so she was not really cooperating with pictures!

Learning Time

I recently read somewhere that by the age of 17 months your child should be able to sort things by color, shape, and type. WHAT! SERIOUSLY??!! So of course I was very aware of the fact that Addie did NOT know her shapes and colors and freaked out! So..I decided to make a project for Addie to become more knowledgeable in this area! I went to Micheal's and purchased plain wooden circles, rectangles and squares. I had to make the triangles because I couldn't find any. Then I purchased some paint and we painted the primary colors of red, blue and yellow. I found an old St. Joseph's shirt that I used to wear during P.E. when I was in middle school. It makes a perfect smock for Addie!

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Of course we painted the newspaper too!

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Last night Addie said "yellow" and "red" so she is gettin' it!

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.Then we did hand prints and wrote the color above the hands. She loves to look at her hand prints! It is so funny. She waves to the piece of paper where her hands are stamped!

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Vesicoureteral Reflux

Well the first half of last Wednesday was not a fun day for me, Addie or David. Addie was diagnosed with Vesicoureteral Reflux when she was 6 months old.....aka...kidney reflux. When she was 6 months old she had to go to Children's Hospital to have a test called, Voiding Cystourethrogram (VCUG), to confirm it was kidney reflux. She has been on a daily antibiotic since she was 6 months to keep her from getting UTIs. Well a year later it was time to go back for the re-test to see if Addie still has kidney reflux. The test involves X-rays and Addie had to be catheterized. A radioactive liquid that can be seen on x rays is placed in the bladder through a catheter. Pictures are taken when the bladder is filled and when Addie goes to the bathroom. The test shows if the urine leaves the body normally or flows back up into the kidneys. Needless to say Addie was extremely confused and crying and upset. It was emotional, not because of the diagnosis, but because any parent hates to see their child upset. Of course Addie did not understand what was happening to her or why she needed to be held down or why she needed to be catheterized. Apparently kidney reflux is very common. After speaking with a few other moms they informed me that their daughters had to go through the same tests as well. The wonderful, fantastic, great, thrilling news is that she no longer has kidney reflux! Yeah! We will not have to go back to have this test done again...hopefully never! I am smiling in this picture because all of her tests are done. As you can see from Addie's expression she does not believe me that the tests are over. Poor thing.

After we left the hospital Addie felt fine so I wanted to go do something fun so we went to the Children's Museum. It was PERFECT! http://www.imagineit-cma.org/ Since we went in the middle of the week there was no one there and Addie had free rein of the place! I honestly think she forgot about the hospital visit when she came here! This place is wonderful!

There was the natural tunnel! It was as you were crawling through an underground tunnel. There were little caves with snakes and underground creatures you could see! Addie loved this. It had a slide at one end! We had to pull her away from this to go to the other activities!

This was moon sand! This stuff is wonderful. It does not stick to your hands! It never dries out and it molds like clay!

Then there was the pond area! They give you a rain coat to wear so your clothes don't get all wet. They have fishing poles and frogs and all sorts of pond creatures!

Future Mozart! Didn't Mozart write his first piece at the age of 5! Addie will give him a run for his money for sure!

The Bulldozer of course!

Halloween Festival Oct 31 2008

Addie was a cat for Halloween! David's mom picked out this costume and she did a wonderful job. It was adorable. Of course Addie hated the cat hood. David and I had to time the pictures just perfectly where one of us would put the hood up and the other would snap a picture really fast! She was quick as lightening taking the hood off....too funny! We went to the downtown festival on Friday night. The weather was perfect. It was just cool enough where we weren't hot and just warm enough where we did not need coats! All of the kids were adorable and everyone had a great time. You could really tell Addie was having a great time because she did not want to go. She was running around like she owned the place. Too funny.

Addie was showing off her dance moves with some other kids. These other children kept hopping around in circles on one foot! Addie was amazed by how they hopped. She just sat and starred at them for the longest time.

Finally Addie joined in and danced too!

Addie loved these pumpkins that lit up! She gave them a few hugs and a kiss too!

Momma was a cowgirl for Halloween!

Pumpkin Carving 101

Wow...Friday was a busy day but soo much fun! Addie and I carved a pumpkin....well I carved it and Addie got all the goo out of the middle! At first she did not want to get her hands dirty but then she really got into it. Then we had pumpkin all over the kitchen! Oh well...being neat is NEVER fun..right!

Addie tried eating the pumpkin...she actually liked it!

Addie loved pointing out all the features on the face. "eye" "nose". OK..so she can't say "eyebrow" yet..but we are working on it!






She is having a deep conversation with the pumpkin in this picture! She was really trying to grasp the whole face thing!