Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Christmas was a wonderful day! Addie definitely grasped the concept of family, presents and fun! We read The Christmas Story on Christmas Eve and hopefully by next year Addie will really grasp the true meaning of Christmas....well....I'll give her a couple more years. Of course the presents and gifts and food are easy to grasp....because they are right there in front of you! And they are all sooo much fun!

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Addie "reads" us books all the time now. I could sit and listen to her read to me all day long! Her little voice is just adorable.
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. Addie and Granddad are playing with a music box. Addie loved the little bear that went around and around on the ice skating rink!
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I think Addie could have played with this all day long!
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I Love this picture. I think Granddad is explaining to Addie that the stroller is for her baby doll....not for Addie! She doesn't seem very receptive at the moment....

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. There we go....Now Addie gets it! She pushed the stroller all around the house! She still sat in the stroller a good bit during the day though! She was not completely ready to let her baby doll have full reign of the stroller just yet....

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Addie helped everyone open their presents too! Luckily Uncle Rod did not mind!

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Addie and Cousin John playing with one of her new toys!
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.Although Addie was having a lot of fun....she is very serious when she is concentrating! Mom said that I was the same way when I was a child....always very serious. I was just taking everything in and I assume that is what Addie is doing also.

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Addie is a wonderful dancer! She is starting to hum along with you when you sing to her too! So cute! Addie got a video cam for Christmas. You plug it into the TV and she can see herself dancing. She kept pointing to the screen and saying "Addie". I don't know if she really grasped how it all happened but she liked to see herself on the big screen! Don't we all!

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Addie is Wii bowling in this picture!.

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After we got home on Sunday and took all the new toys up to Addie's room....this is what she played with the rest of the night......a shopping bag! There was a tear in the top of the bag and she thought it was the funniest thing that she could walk around with the bag on her head and still see out through the tear.

How old is Addie now? Watch and see!

Addie knows how old she is! How cool is that! This was too cute not to add to our Blog! It might take a while to load but it is cute if you can get it to work. Enjoy!

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She can even tell us how many fingers old she is while drinking from her sippy cup....she is so talented! Multi-tasker!

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And the Temper Tantrums begin......

Although the temper tantrums only last about 5 seconds....they are starting to happen. You know the hardest thing about it though......is for me to not laugh when Addie has a tantrum! They are so ridiculously funny that it is so hard not to laugh. They can spark over something as simple as she wanted a fork and was given a spoon! Oh well....It is all part of growing up. Distraction is my favorite word! It seems that when a tantrum begins....all you have to do is just show Addie a new book....or point to something new....or ask her a question "Addie what color is this?" and the tantrums completely stop and she is ready to move on. I really wonder what goes through that precious mind of hers sometimes. OK...so maybe the most loving thing for me to do was not to get out the camera and capture these outbursts on film....but I just couldn't help myself.

In this picture Tallulah is staring at Addie wondering what all the fuss is about....you can see Tallulah's black snout right next to Addie's face! Obviously Tallulah was not fazed by the upset!

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Look at the bottom lip...could it be poked out any further!

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Addie is very profoundly saying "NO" in this picture!

Decorating for Christmas!

Addie was a BIG helper this year in decorating the house for Christmas. She helped me decorate......and then un-decorate the Christmas trees!!

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We have a Tigger Christmas Tree Skirt that she just loves. She wasn't quite sure what to do with it though :)

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We have a little tree that is just Addie's size. She loves to rearrange the few ornaments that are left on the tree. She did not understand why she could not put the Christmas tree skirt around the little tree though!
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Addie hiding behind the Christmas Tree! She was very curious why we had a tree in the house.
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All of the lights that she put on were in the same spot! I had to do a little rearranging! We decided we would do a "lights only" tree this year! We will bring the ornaments out next year!
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She dragged the garland from the box......all the way across the floor....to the stairs! What a big helper!
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