Addie's One!

Happy first birthday to our sweet little Addie! She even decided to take her first steps on her birthday! She must have wanted us to be able to remember it. Every day she says more and more words. Her favorite word is, Da Da. And boy does she use it a lot. She has transferred from a Mommy's girl right over to a Daddy's girl. That means I'm lonely in my corner. She adores her Daddy and I know the feeling is mutual. :)

At her one year check-up she was 29 inches long (50th percentile) and weighed in at 18 pounds, 8 ounces (8th percentile).

Beat Up

We play "beat up" a lot at our house. We'll understand if you are afraid to come over. ;)

Love

Put Some Muscle Into It

Wes has this little sister thing figured out. "Put some muscle into it, Addie!" :)

Mr. GQ

Wes is finally snapping out of this "I don't want pictures" funk. Yay!

Trick or Treat 2011

Wesley told us he wanted to be a monkey for Halloween this year and so I went out and found this super cute costume for him. I also found this adorable little kitty costume for Addie. The day before Halloween Wesley came to me and said, "Mama, I want to be Batman for Halloween." This struck me totally by surprise since he had seemed to love his monkey suit. I wasn't about to run out and spend money on another costume, so I checked out my craft and sewing supplies on hand and determined I could make a Batman costume. While the kids napped I whipped him up a cape and mask. I think he ended up pretty happy with it. Luckily, I was able to still talk him into getting some pics of him in the original monkey suit. Let's hope this is the ONLY year that he winds up with two costumes.

Kyler came and joined us again for trick-or-treating. Wes loved going house to house even more than last year. They were all so much fun to watch.

The Great Pumpkin (A.K.A. Paci Taker)

Addie picked out her first pumpkin this year. Okay, not really. She was kind of tired and not quite in the pumpkin picking out mood so we grabbed a pumpkin on her behalf. :)

Wesley had fun helping to carve pumpkins this year. We followed up pumpkin carving with a family viewing of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown." Unfortunately, after this year Wes probably won't think The Great Pumpkin is so great. We went out on a limb and told him that if he gave his paci (or "zah" as he named it) to The Great Pumpkin that he would leave behind a toy. The timing must have been good, because he went to bed that night without his paci and hasn't had it since. YAY! I've wanted this to happen all year. The new Legos must have really helped soften the blow. :)

Oh Brother