Hellicopter Fun!!

Stephen is a huge fan of R/C toys! He particularly loves the planes and hellicopters and over the past couple of years has gotten quite good at them and buily himself a nice collection too. Tonight he decided he would WOW Addison with his aviatar skills. She was slightly unimpressed and little scared of the little low flying object.

It's Gingerbread time in the city

Chick-fil-A has an awesome Christmas calendar of events scheduled for December and so far we have participated in 2 of them. Tonight we decorated a gingerbread cookie with Addison's cousin Rose Marie. She had a lot of fun and even shared a few of the decorating treats with the cookie and Rose Marie but, she really just wanted to paint him with icing and eat the decorations herself. Except the spice drops ~ she doesn't like those!

The Polar Express

This was our first ride on the Polar Express and it was fantastic! Definitely a great way to jump right into the Christmas Spirit and Addison loved everything about it, until......Santa got on board. You board the train at the depot, take a fun-filled ride to the North Pole and pick up Santa then, each kid gets to sit and talk with him and take photos. Not Addison! No-way No-how! About half way to the North Pole she turns to Stephen and says "No Santa! Ok Daddy?" Oopsy! Oh well, all the rest of the trip was great and she really got into singing the carols with all the elves of course the gingerbread cookie and YooHoo was a high-point too!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

WOW! That girl can do it all!

Addison LOVES shoes! Her shoes, mom's shoes, dad's shoes and any dress-up shoe she can find! A true girl! Her favorite thing to do is wear high heals, carry her baby and as many bags that she can hold. She is already an excellent multi-tasking mom too, even when her baby "cries" she can rock her on her shoulder with a very low-toned "shh shh shh" while carrying ALL the bags! What woman! Here are a few shots of the day and her very special rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". I told ya' this girl can do it all :) (unable to upload video now will try again later)
** Also it's day 7 of Leon watch!!

OK..... People I am back!

Due to the ole' girl having a virus (I am referring to my Computer girl) I have been unfortunately a non-blogger and a non-reader of fellow blogs for several weeks but as of this evening we are back and virus free! I will update as much as poss in the next few day to catch up! Stay tuned.......

Meet Leon

Last year for Christmas my dear friend "North" (Teresa West) gave us a copy of the Elf on the Shelf and eventhough Addison was a little young for it last year she has fell in love with it this year. Tonight we opened the box, read the book and picked out his special name....... Leon! WOW! I know right? How clever are we to name him Leon? Well... that is Noel spelled backward! Awesome! We went through several suggestions, and even put a few of the good ones in a cup for Addison to pick from but none suit him like Leon! I mean he just is a Leon. Here are a few of the names we tossed around: Cookie (Addison's one and only suggestion), Elfisson, Tom, Bert (after her favorite Sesame character), Pal and Hank but none of those were right. We thought a little longer a Leon was put on the table and everyone shouted with glee! Oh Leon you'll go down in history! And obviously as much of a challange as choosing a name was I think Leon is going to be quite the handful! However he seems to take his day job of "monitoring" very seriously he has already got into mischief day one. Addison says "Oh Lee-non you silly"

Me and my gang!

Addison's wise words for today.......
"Always watch the scary parts of the Little Mermaid with a friend" it also helps if you entourage includes : Max (the dog from the Grinch), Super Why and a sweet baby-doll to help balance everything!