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.