NO!

Addie's Favorite word is is NO! Addie do you want to eat, No, Addie do you want a treat, NO Addie, NO! So it is rather difficult to know the real No from the No-yes. But the other night when I said Addie do you want to put your jammies on, you don't have to go to bed, it was no surprise to hear "Noooo Mommy, mooieeee" (Movie). So Addie ran back to finish watching her movie and I grabbed her jammies and left them on the couch and finished cleaning up. When it was time to actually get ready for bed I couldn't find her jammies that I had laid out, so I looked and looked, sure that I did in fact lay out jammies. Annoyed I gave up and got another pair and went on the hunt to find Addie. At first sight of Mommy and the jammies came a "noooo night night". Later when I we finally decided to go to bed I found the missing jammies. Addie had decided that if she hid the jammies then she wouldn't have to go to bed. So she hid them in her favorite fort, behind the recliner in our room. Addie loves to recline the reclinner and pile all the pillows and blankets behind the chair, jump off in the bed into the puffamatic landing pad she created then crawl behind the chair and play.

Carving Pumkins

Nothing says Happy Halloween like a pumpkin carving party. Our friends Peter & Rhonda Sarantis had a really fun party. They had 50 pumpkins and we carved and carved till we couldn't carve anymore. Addie really liked the idea that she could pull on the stump and the top would come off, it was like magic to a 2 year old.






Dad hard at work! Carving his master piece and Addie ready to draw another master piece.






At least someone notices when Mom wants to get a picture!



We had a great time carving pumpkins talking with friends and eating good food! The Sarantis family know how to have a good time, and the Hannants are always happy to join in!

Halloween

Happy Halloween from the Addams Family! This year Addie refused to be Tinkerbell. She refused to have anything to do with everything Tinkerbell. So I thought that she could then wear her Zebra costume, but yet again would have nothing to do with it. The only costume that she would even consider was her Spider from last year, good thing Addie didn't grow to much! And even when it came time to dress up, she wasn't sure about Mom's new look and wanted nothing to do with her new parents! With a little help from her cousin Abby we were able to trick her into wearing her costume! Thanks Abby!

We decided that Addie needed some mentors in the Halloween Department. So we went to Dave and Jody's and Trick or Treated in their neighbohood. It is a good thing that she had her cousins to teach her a thing or two about Halloween.

Rule #1, when you knock on someones door and they open the door, it doesn't mean that we are suposed to go inside! It only took a couple of doors and Addie had that one down.

Rule # 2 Stay together and always look cute! Check! By the end of the night Addie Addie had mastered Trick or Treating. She would stand close to the door and hold her little treat bucket (a hairy eyeball) up and say Teeeet, and happily wait until they filled her eye with candy! She loved Halloween so much that she had to sleep with her Hairy Eyeball!


Addie wore her spider all day, we weren't taking any chances. Addie was going to be a spider and like it! Mom had worked too hard on Tinkerbell and didn't want to fight anymore!

Paul's Birthday

I know that Paul's birthday was more than a month ago, but I couldn't not document it. We decided to go to the Oregon Coast, with a stop in Portland to do a little tax-free shopping and enjoy Burgerville & Moe's, Yummmm. We had a wonderful time. Joy watched Addie so that we could get all our favorite stores packed into our one shopping day! It was a beautiful Oregon weekend. The weather was wonderful not a raindrop in site and even better than that Paul shared is birthday shopping and let me enjoy a few purchases. Isn't he the greatest husband ever, shopping and the coast all in one weekend!

I just wanted to make sure that both sides were documented! Joy's family stayed at the beach house with us, which was lots of fun. Addie loves playing with her cousins, and they love her! I think Tate will learn to love her in time! Baby Battles, uhhhh. So until that day we will just wear ear plugs;)