Some fun pictures

Sporting the apron that my Grandma Dexter made for and sent to Addie - she actually has gotten rather good at helping in the kitchen.

Climbing into a basket in her room.

Getting really into sharing mom and dad's dessert. And she's wearing one of my shirts which she found going through the laundry and had to wear.

Trying to sit in an empty wipes container . . . and how it turned out. She wasn't upset, just kind of layed there for a minute trying to figure out what went wrong.

Looking super cute for church in a dress that someone bought for her (but I don't remember who, sorry).

On top of the table. Have you noticed a pattern of climbing? - it's all the rage in our house. On this particular morning I was making breakfast and came around the corner to find this. I thought the funniest part of this experience was that right after this picture she got the car keys out of my bag and pressed the alarm button and got really scared of the alarm going off in the garage. Climbing up on tall furniture into precarious situations: no problem. Strange beeping noises that she has caused: terrifying.

Our goofy girl

Addie is a wonderful and happy little girl - most of the time. When she's tired or not feeling well, she can be cranky and whiny with the best of them. Last night was one of those times. We were trying to have Family Home Evening, which she usually loves because of the singing and we read from the Book of Mormon Stories book. Plus, she loves being with both Jason and I which happens less and less since Jason's been getting busier with school. Anyway, as we were trying to get started, Addie pointed to the TV and wanted to watch Elmo. We told her we weren't going to watch Elmo and that we were going to sing a song (yeah!). It did not work. She started to cry and whine and scream as if something horrible had happened. We tried everything to distract her and I even took her into her room to calm her down, which worked a little but when we came back out she pointed and cried at the TV again. So out of frusteration, I said "Do you need to go to sleep? Do you want to go to bed?" She immediately calmed down, looked at me and nodded and then pointed toward her room. So we got her ready for bed and she went to sleep - at least a half hour early. And Jason and I had Family Home Evening by ourselves, which mostly involved winding down from the whole experience.

IT'S A BOY!

It's official - not only are we having another baby, but we found out today that it's going to be a little boy! Yeah!! We are so thrilled!! He's due at the end of January, so he and Addie will be about 19 months apart.