Stop and Smell (Pick) the Wildflowers

Our little Addie Cakes is a flower lover.  Any flower she sees she will pick and carry around for hours whether it be a simple clover flower, our red geraniums, or wildflowers.  My absolute favorite part is when she smells a flower she gets this super cute scrunched nose.  I just love it!

Tiny Tumbler

I remember Wes loving to do this at this age.  Addie can go one step further though and actually do a somersault.  Poor girl has her mommy's grace.  :)  She is so clumsy.  She doesn't watch where she is going most times and tends to run into things.  It also isn't uncommon for her to be walking and trip over thin air.  Even though grace isn't her thing, she did great at her 18 month check-up.  Baby girl weighed in at 20 pounds 2 ounces (20th percentile) and measured 33.5 inches long (92nd percentile).

Joy Ride

The kids' favorite place to ride the Gator is around the pond out behind the house.  Hold on Addie, because it is a rough ride!

Love Those Cheeks!

Sweet Boy

This is a memory I don't want to forget and I am surprised I haven't posted it yet to be honest.  I'd say for about the last 9 months almost every time Ben and Wes go to the grocery store together Wesley comes home and hands me a bouquet of flowers.  Ben always insists that it is always 100% Wesley's idea.  I didn't believe him at first, but now I do.  My little guy is going to be quite the catch someday.  I love him so...  And his daddy isn't so bad either.  :)

Addie Loves...

Addie loves smelling flowers with a wrinkled nose,  her silly white cloth diaper blankies, soft things (like Butters our cat), marshmallows, saying "uh huh" instead of "yes", taking walks, Minnie Mouse, pop, watching Barney and Elmo, playing with her babies, brushing her teeth, waving like a princess, "chocit" (chocolate), singing Itsy Bitsy Spider and the Wheels on the Bus, dancing, blowing kisses, and giving awesome hugs.

Wesley "Make Cookies" Hudson

Wesley can make a mean batch of cookies.  "Mommy, make cookies."  He can almost measure all of the ingredients himself with minimal help and he can do a pretty good job at cracking the eggs.  #1 cookie of choice is chocolate chip.  His love of cookies isn't helping our waistlines at all.  :)

Ready for School

Wesley is SOOOO ready to start 3's preschool next fall.  We got an opportunity to "try out" a preschool that we were looking at.  Wes got to go and participate in the class for day while Ben and I got to sit off to the side watching.  He absolutely loved it and fit right in like a big boy.  When we got home and we asked him what he did at school he said, "made friends."  It is so hard to explain to him that he has to wait to go to school until next fall.

On this particular day he wanted to take this dry erase board out and mess around on it.  We've never worked with him on letters and numbers before so I was so surprised to walk over several minutes later and see his work.  I was surprised how well he duplicated the letters and numbers.  He just eats up any kind of learning opportunity these days.