Car wash

Waiting for ma ma's car to come through....VERY exciting stuff!!!


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Halloween Music Class

The kiddos had a preemptive Halloween at music class. The kiddos were so cute in their costumes.

Addie and Piper showing each other their stamps.

Heading to class....I love this picture!

Piper helping Addie put his hat on.

Yeee Haw!

Sam's Superman Birthday Party!

Addie has been looking forward to Sam's (a.k.a. Sim's) birthday for weeks now. I know that sounds weird since he is not even 2 yet but it's true! Sam had a super cute birthday invitation that showed him flying in a superman costume. We had it hanging on our bullitan board in the pantry. Addie would open the pantry door and point to it and say "Superman"!

In the jumpie.....he jumped his little heart out!

Making his way back to the jumpie after hitting the slides (he is the one closest to the camera).

Addie and the birthday boy hitting the slides.

More slide action...Weee!!!

Getting in our costume before the party. He was pretty excited about the costume and especially the cape!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAM-O!!!! I can't believe you are 3!!!! We Love you!!

Sesame Street Birthday Party!!!

We had TWO birthday parties in the same day last weekend. Luckily, one was before nap and one was after nap. They both had jumpies so Addison had the time of his life. Not to mention the fun play time with friends, cupcakes, etc. He is a BIG fan of parties!

In the jumpie with Piper!

Here he is having his first sucker! He said Yum Yum after his first "suck"!

Sporting his Elmo birthday hat!

Averly Jane Calhoon

We now have a name for baby girl Calhoon! We are really excited since we have loved this name for years. It comes from a song by the Lost Trailers called Averly Jane. No, Patrick and I were not picking out baby names in 2000 but we had just said if we ever had a girl we would name her that since we like the name so much.
Averly is scheduled to join us on December 14th and we are anxiously awaiting her arrival. We can't wait to meet her and we can't wait for all of you to meet her as well!

Shoes

Addison loves to wear ma ma's and da da's shoes. Here he is sporting da da's!

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Oh no!!!!

We went to UTC mall last weekend and promised Addison that he could go in the jumpy when we finished picking up a few things. He was so excited and kept on saying "jumpy" the entire time we were shopping. When we got over to the jumpy they had deflated it to take their break. Addison just stood in front if it saying "Oh no", "Jumpy", "Broken". It was so cute. It must have really made an impression because he continued to say it the next week.
We took him on the train so he did still have something fun to do!


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Balboa park photos

We had our annual family photos this past weekend (to be uploaded in the next few weeks). We decided to do them at Balboa Park this year since we did the beach last year. Hopefully we got some nice Fall shots.
Patrick took this photo of Addison climbing the stairs of the History Museum.
We have had countless hours of fun at this park. It is so great. It has everything from the zoo, carousel, a train, fountains galore,the botanical gardens to countless museums. A lot of times we will go and just walk around.

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Pumpkin painting

We decided to paint our pumpkins this year (we are going to carve the big ones this weekend when Pa Pa Jan and She She come). Addison had a blast.


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Waterguns

Our neighbor gave us some waterguns and it has become Addison's new favorite toy. He loves to squirt everything in sight.
It has created hours of fun with Da Da and with Sam when he comes over to play!


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Sunset at wind-n-sea

We walked down for a late afternoon sunset and met up with Everly. They had a blast playing on the stairs together. It was an awesome sunset...the only thing missing was an adult beverage! (only a few more months to go!!!)

Just Another Friday Night

We haven't gotten to see much of Sam and Isla since we can't do weekday playdates anymore and Addison has really been missing them (me too). So, we decided to do a Friday afternoon playdate and they stayed for dinner and bathtime. Here are the three munchkins taking their Friday night bath. Addie eventually had to get on the other side of Sam to sit next to Isla. Too cute!

Sam and Addie had a great time jumping on the trundle and then pretending to go night night together. I can't wait for sleepovers. In a few years. Jess and I decided that we could easily fit four kiddos in the room for a sleepover (once baby Calhoon comes!).
Isla has now started walking. YEA Isla!!! Those boys better watch out...soon she will be able to keep up and give them a run for their money.

Addie and Sam playing "night night".

Bates Nut Farm

We went to Bates Nut Farm a few weeks ago to get into the Halloween spirit. The place was a madhouse and we had a ton of fun. It was about 800 degrees (the farm is about an hour inland) which doesn't set the best with pregnant ma ma but I made it through!
The farm has pony rides, hay rides, tons of games and of course a pumpkin patch. Here is a little sneak peak of our day!

Family picture with our pumpkins. We got two small ones (one for Addie and baby) and two big ones (one for ma ma and da da).

Our friends Brittany, Ben and Everly came with us. Addie thinks Everly is the cutest. Here they are among the pumpkins.

Addison testing out the pumpkins to make sure they can withstand any tricks they might endure on Halloween. This one passed the strength test!

This one passed the rolling test!

Ma Ma and Addie among the pumpkins.

Da Da rolled Addie around in the wheelbarrow which he loved!!!

The two cuties living it up. I LOVE this picture.

Da Da was so nice and waiting in line for the ponies while we sat in the shade and ate lunch. Addison was very persistent that he wanted to "ride" the ponies. He hopped right on and rode away! Must be those Texas roots.

Feeding the goats in the petting zoo.

Baby Girl

I am 29 weeks and we had an ultrasound yesterday. Baby girl is doing great! She is 3 1/2 pounds already and is growing by the minute!

We are rounding the corner since I am now heading to the Dr. every 2 weeks and soon to be every week.

We were given the task of picking her birthday....either the 14th or 17th. Atleast the 16th (Addison's Birthday) was off the table.

I guess we should get busy picking a name too!!!

Here are the pictures from our last ultrasound. Three of them are her profile and the other one is of her foot! She was moving her mouth in the ultrasound and looked so precious. It reminded me of when Addison was sucking his thumb during on of his. We are so excited to meet her and feel very blessed that she will be with us soon!

I miss you

I have gone back to work full time and I think I am having a harder time adjusting than Addison is. He seems to be doing great with the nanny and gone are the days of him crying until I get home from work....YEA!!!
He has started saying "I miss you" when I get home or when he goes to bed since he knows I won't get to see him in the morning.
It is so adorable but breaks my heart at the same time. He says it in a special voice and you just have to hear it!
Thankfully, it is just for a couple of months.

Orange

Addison has started saying his colors. The first week everything was "Orange" with a few purples and whites mixed in. He is now adding yellow and black to his repertoire. By far his favorite is still orange and everytime he sees something orange he has to be sure to tell me.
He must take after his grandpa since his favorite color is orange!!!!

Halloween gels

We have started our halloween decorating (MUCH more to come!!!). Mops sent the gels below and Addison loves them. The hard part is getting him to not take them off the window. Our poor bugs that we had up before finally bit the dust from so much taking them on and off. So sad.

I have gotten really excited for Halloween this year. Mainly because Addison's favorite thing to do is look for spider webs and spiders EVERYWHERE so halloween decorations fall right in line with that.

We are having a small get together with his baby friends before trick-or-treating this year which is going to be super fun. And to put us in the spirit even more we are heading to the pumpkin patch this weekend. Yea Halloween!



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Beach day with Lisa

Lisa came in town a few weekends ago to visit us from San Fran. Addie had a blast with her and still asks about her. He is really starting to remember people and the things he did with them. He will point to something that reminds him of someone and say their name.
i.e. he had his first spider hunting expedition about 2 months ago with our friend Paul. When we look for spider webs he will say "Paul" "Spi" "Bite" "Ouch" which basically means "Paul and I look for spiders, There is a spider, They bite and it hurts"!



Lisa and Addie playing on the beach. Lisa was so nice and helped ma ma chase Addie around since she was having a day with lots of baby pains!

On our way to the beach. Addie looking cool in his sunglasses and wagon.
He always complains when the sun is too bright by saying "bright" and covering his eyes. We found the perfect solution...sunglasses....which he loves!


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Hmm?!?

Okay, this post is evidence of my pregnancy brain. I don't remember why I specifically took this picture or what we were doing.
It must have been that Addie just looks cute!



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Luggage!

We had gotten two packages from Mi Mi and opened them with anticipation. This was in one of the packages. It is a rolling suitcase with Airplanes and Trucks all over it and it has Addison's name monogrammed on it. It is really adorable and he had a blast rolling it all over the living room.
Thanks Mi Mi and Pa Pa!

I should note that I forgot my forewarning of Christmas packages coming early and to put them up in the garage and not to open them. Oops! I guess Christmas came a little early. Sorry Mi Mi!!!





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Mid week pizza

We had a mid week get together at bird rock pizza a few weeks ago with the crew. Look at all the babies!! (two of them are newborns and were in their carseats snoozing). Addison had a blast playing with the video games, candy machines and generally just running around. It was a great day to celebrate hump day!


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Little monkeys

Jess and I took Addie and Piper to the zoo for a last outing before I went back to work full time and she had her adorable baby girl.
Our little monkeys had a blast! We don't usually bring the stroller to the zoo anymore so our little guys can just run from place to place. It it the perfect way to spend the morning- just letting them run and leading us to whichever exhibit we happen to cross.
Addie decided to feed the monkey statue his snack. You can't really see it but if you look closely at the monkey statue's mouth there is a cookie in there!!!






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Another Beach Day

Addison and I took an impromptu beach trip after nap one day to our favorite point loma beach spot.
It was a gorgeous day and he had a blast running and digging! We love San Diego!!!







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Location:Another beach day

Dirty D

What is this you say? It is the letter D from Addison's puzzle stool inside a rubber glove.
Addison and I were playing upstairs and he flushed his letter D down the toilet. I tried to get there in time since I saw it about to happen but I was a little too slow. I honestly didn't think it would actually flush down since it is so large.
We in turn had to call a plumber who couldn't get it out from the front so he had to remove the toilet and go in from the back.
The plumber actually left us with a present when he left...he had saved us the D! Needless to say we left it sitting in bleach for a few days and it is now back in his puzzle stool.
The entire thing was actually pretty comical.


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Mi Mi's Birthday

Addie had a blast giving Mi Mi her birthday balloons and present! Here he is walking away very proudly after giving her the loot!

Laughing with Mi Mi.

Addie giving Mi Mi her birthday balloons. These were termed "Mi Mi Birthday Babboons" after this. We did get him to say Happy Birthday Mi Mi which made Mi Mi VERY happy!

We had a great time with Mi Mi. Thank you so much for coming to save the day while the nanny was out of town! They got to spend 3 full days together while I was at work and Mi Mi said Addie was perfect. Go Addie!!!

Addison knows that Mi Mi left on an airplane to go back to Texas and ever since then when an airplane goes overhead he says "Airplane, Mi Mi". I guess now he thinks she lives on an airplane!

Play Gym

We have been looking for a play gym on craigslist for several months now. We finally found one a month or so ago and just had to wait for the family selling it to move so we could pick it up. Ralph and Da Da spent the day assembling it and Addison is in love! We had looked at several different models, etc. and this was by far the right choice. It is perfect because it has slides and things to climb vs. swings which he really isn't that into. His friend Piper has something similar, if not the same one and he loves hers so I knew it was going to be a BIG HIT!

At the bottom of the slide....wee!!! (which is what he says whenever we drive by a playground)

Getting ready for his first slide down!

Testing out the stairs!

Following Da Da Down the slide.

Looking VERY satisfied with his new toy!

Woa! That was a fast one!

Da Da getting ready to go down. Addie keeps on asking ma ma to go with him so I have been trying to explain that his very large and pregnant mother can't fit!

Ralph taking a turn!

Our kid corner!

Addison playing on the side while he is waiting for it to get all put together.

Thank you Da Da for all your hard work putting it together!!!!