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.

You Are My Sunshine

 

Peek-A-Boo

Playground

These days Wesley wants to go to the playground every chance he gets.  While driving he points out each and every playground we pass.  Luckily we have quite a few by our house, but that doesn't stop him from trying to get us to go down to the playground at the beach.  Hopefully this weather will warm up so that we can head down there soon.  I think it will be a popular spot for us this summer.

A-ee Loves Me

Addie loves to be outside playing, especially when Wes is out playing too.  Actually, this girl wants to be anywhere her brother is.  The other day our nanny told me how they were both sitting on their little couch together and Wesley goes, "A-ee, go get the Batman book" and she jumps up and searched through the books to retrieve the Batman book and sat back down next to him.  Even when he is in a time out I have the hardest time keeping her away.  She wants to sit right next to him until he is done.  They are even good sitting there too!  When I pick Addie up to take her away Wesley says, "A-ee loves me" and tries to hang on to her by hugging her.  You are right buddy, Addie loves you bunches.  :)

Fresh Concrete

We had a freshly poured slab of concrete, which means Wes and Addie got to add some permanent hand prints to our home.  This was Wesley's second set of concrete hands, because if you remember he got a chance about two years ago.