Pioneer Day fun

Addison's new house

Sadly I must report that at the ripe ole' age of 19 months Addison has moved out!

I have been on a mad search for months for a well-taken-care-of outdoor used playhouse. I have came up empty handed at every search until recently. I have been to numerous yardsales, community sales, consignment sales and NOTHING!! I haven't even seen a "badly-taken-care-of" house. But a good friend of mine was driving home today and calls to say "Hey! Did you ever find Addison a playhouse?" and i was all "Nope" and he says "Well, just down the street from my house they have one at a yard sale" Sooooo....... she and I snag Daddy's truck and away to find the playhouse we go. I drive into the drive-way and there she sits, in all her glory this big beautiful Barbie house and how much............. $20!!! And there was nothing wrong with it! Not even a little bit of fading. SCORE!!!!! She has now been inside it playing for nearly an hour and I see no signs that she is getting tired anytime soon

Girls Day Out

Since I have recently gone back into the work force Addison and I haven't had a "girls day" in awhile. Today was a furlow day for the Bartow County School System and that meant ~ Everybody else will be working and we can have the whole day to do anything and so we did! To start off we slept in a little later than we have (7:30 instead of 6:45) at breakfast together and then headed out for our adventure.



First stop - we met Daddy at a BP station on our way to the Avenue to pick-up a birthday gift for Emma Grace. Addison got to "drive" Daddy's truck and we took photos in front of the logo. She had never seen his truck and was completely blown away by its size.

Learning to drive

Second stop - We dropped into the Avenue and picked up Emma Grace's lap desk and headed on down to the mall. A few weeks ago we were there and saw this amazing indoor play area but because it was a Friday night it was totally crowded and unsafe for Addison so I promised her we would come back and so today we did! Today there were only about 4 kids and all around the same age and she totally enjoyed it. She ran around and made new friends and played so hard. It was totally worth it.

Girls day out GirlsThen we hopped on the train and away we went. She loved this. All the people passing by us she would wave and say "Hi".

Lastly we split a McDonalds Nugget Happy Meal and then a quick "pop-in" at Hancock Fabrics for some cute blue/chocolate striped fabric that I will be making her some ruffled pants from very soon. All in all we had a lot of "us" time today. We were back home at 3:00 for a power nap and then we cooked dinner for Daddy and told him all about our day, he was totally jealous and wants to go the next time :)

19 months and counting........

Today we celebrated turning 19 months by sporting our first real pony-tail! As everyone knows Addison was born with a head full of black hair and never really lost any of it, it has just gradually gotten lighter and lighter in color. She always has some sort of hair-accessory and at 10 months was able to wear piggy tails but now...... we can wear a single pony-tail! She prefers to call it "horsey hair" (thanks Daddy)! She thought she was big stuff this morning with this "like mommy hair fashion" and couldn't wait to show everyone! I love it that the small things thrill her ~

Addison or Dora?