One, TWO, Four

Me: Hey Addison, How old are you?
Addison: Addison.

Me: No, I said how OLD are you?

Addison: One, Two ... Four.

So I guess this time next year she'll be four years old.. We'll work on numbers more later..

Today was Addison's SECOND birthday!

For those of you that know Addison, know that she gets cold VERY easily.  And when she's cold, she doesn't sleep.  SO, this morning Addison got up before 7am.  (She usually sleeps until 10:30)  Ken picked her up and we all went downstairs because AJ was itching to give her the birthday present she got her. 
 

Opening her present from her big sissy AJ!





"stashios!" (Pistachios are her favorite.)



She could finish that entire bag of pistachios in a day if I let her.  She loves them that much.  OR maybe she's just trying to keep Ken from eating them ;)  just kidding Ken.

snuggled up, eating pistachios, drinking juice and watching Pingu!
What could be better?



So last week we got in the new "One Step Up" catalogue and she's been carrying it around showing Ken and I the pictures and saying "want it" "get it" of the tricycle, sandbox, and any and all water toys...  So needless to say she liked her "big" present.

Addison's first tricycle

 

I got Wheels!!

  



Check me out! Zoom! Zoom!

"go AJ go!"

She rang that bell NONSTOP for ten minutes... at least. Her legs can't quite work the pedals yet but she likes to push it around or have AJ push her. 

For her special birthday dinner we had all her favorites:

see-weeal (cereal), pancakes, rice (my little chinese girl haha! No meal is complete with out rice), boiled shrimp, leftover chicken nuggets (from lunch). 

Then we waited around for Ken to get home from Tuscaloosa and we had CAKE!

Addison is quite obsessed with Pingu (a claymation penguin cartoon).  So I had this cake made at whole foods!

Then she got to open her last present of the day.

PINGU! PINGU!

Happy Birthday my funny girl.  You make my days brighter. Mommy loves you!

Bathtime Fun

Bathtime at our house is an all out fun fest.
Recently, Addison has come up with a new bath time game.  Its called "sticky Anna" She takes the bath foam letters and sticks them all over anna's body and if she happens to come across a toy that doesnt stick she either puts it on Anna's head or "hands" it to her so hard that Anna falls backwards. 

That Anna.  She's a tough girl.  Here's a video of her having fun with her sister until Addison head butts her and makes her cry.

Anna's Walking!

Things have been busy in the England house!  Ken broke his tailbone two weeks ago.  We've been busy fixing up the house (repainting, replacing eaves and replacing our crappy, single pane, leaky kitchen windows.)  I'll do a separate post with all the home improvement pics once we get finished.. Which if its actually on schedule will be done by May 7th.  (The girls' birthday party)

Anna took her first steps Friday night!  She's still a bit wobbly but she's taken up to 5 steps at a time.  I love it.  She has the cutest triumphant expression on her face when she makes it to where she wants to go.  Heres a little video we shot.  Sorry the lighting is dark, it was taken on our phone.