It's been a while!

I've tried to jot down some of the awesomely adorable (and generally sassy) things Addison has been saying lately, but I've missed most of them. Some of these are from a few months ago, but I found the paper crumpled up in my purse and am trying to re-live the moments and share with you, along with some more recent ones.


One day after church, she told us that she learned about Jacob in Sunday school. I said, "Really, what did you learn about Jacob?" and she matter-of-factly stated "Jacob slept on a rock. And God is with us wherever we go." [Yes He is, darlin'... :)] Shout out to her Sunday school teachers, Ms. Shirley and Ms. Sara, and to Ms. Gwen, the children's church teacher. She loves them all and learns so much from them, which she passes on to us. A couple of weeks ago, they made a tent in Sunday school and learned about Aquila and Priscilla telling Apollos about Jesus. So in the tent, she had the cut out figures of Priscilla, Aquila, and Apollos. Every day since then, she has had that tent beside her bed and we have to bring them out of the tent during the day and put them back in the tent and close the doors at night so they can sleep. She also learned about Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (wish you could hear her say those names!) in the fiery furnace. They made a fiery furnace that she brought home to show us. Every night, we have read that story in her children's Bible, followed by Daniel and the lions den. She has the stories memorized and likes to "read" them herself. She has a remarkable memory and knows them practically word-for-word. After that story is Jonah, which she has known verbatim for months now. And this week, we've added "The Brave Queen" (Esther), so she's memorized several in a row. It's funny because last night, she was playing with her dolls and the dolls were talking about who was "Jewish" and who was not (like Esther and Mordecai from the story).

Just this week, she was talking about Easter and I asked her if she knew what Easter was about. She said, "Jesus' birthday?" and I said no and told her that it's when we celebrate Jesus saving us by dying on the cross for us and becoming alive again. So she says "Mommy, how can someone come back alive?" and I told her that God made him come back alive. And she says, "Wow, that is so serious!".

Another day a while back, she was telling me about the Chick-Fil-A cow that she met at Open House night at her school. She was so excited that she got to meet the cow and have her picture made. As she recounted that night, she said, "I be'd scared of him a little bit but I liked him. At first I thought he was a monster." If only you could hear her cute little voice and see those adorable facial expressions while she's saying it...

Another day, we were getting ready to go somewhere (I don't remember where) and Addison says, "Daddy, you can't go, you have to stay home and clean the house, it's dirty. We are having girls only, so you have to stay here." I just about died laughing at that and I was so delighted that she chose him to clean the house instead of me! (Shows you who has been doing most of the cleaning lately...thanks, honey!) When he didn't comply with her demands, boy was he in trouble! She said, "Daddy, no sir! You are on the naughty list!" When he still did not comply, she went on to say, "Daddy, that's it, you lost your privilege. Mommy, put Daddy in time out. [To Daddy] You owe me 5 minutes! Sit up right now, criss cross applesauce, and no talking!" She really enjoys being the teacher so she can tell everyone else what to do, as you can tell. So, another time, we were in the car and she is telling Daddy what to do because she is the teacher and Daddy says, "No, I'm the teacher, remember?" and she replies, "Daddy you are only the teacher at your school. I'm the teacher at home." HA! Last one...Daddy burped at the table and she says "That is rude! Say excuse me! You are in big trouble. When you get done, you are going to time out!"

What's Peyton doing these days, you ask? He is growing up so fast (5 months now) and his favorite person is by far his big sister Addison. He watches her constantly and tries to get to her, laughing and smiling all the time. He loves to watch her dance around and sing and likes to be in her room looking around at every thing. She loves him too and frequently says that when he gets bigger he is going to be her boyfriend. When Peyton is a "good boy" she puts stickers on his car seat. He likes to look at them and she loves putting them there. Needless to say we are running out of room for the stickers. We are enjoying it while it lasts, because I suspect that as soon as he's able to move around on his own, he will get into EVERYTHING she has and drive her crazy!

Holding hands in the car 

Wacky Wednesday clothes

He scoots around on his belly, but mostly backward. He's just started getting up on all fours and rocking, so he might be actually crawling soon! He loves to jump in the jumping thing that hangs from the doorway. He loves to grab anything he can get his hands on and puts everything mostly in his mouth. He's been eating cereal (rice and oatmeal) and has also tried some avocado, which he seems to like pretty well. This week we will try carrots that I made myself tonight! I am giving homemade baby food a shot...will see how it goes!  He is precious and we are all enjoying him so much.