Addie First Christmas

Adam still has our Laptop so I can't put pics up yet (he fixed it WOOHOO and we should be getting it back soon) I will add Christmas pics later.

Wow........Addie has been So good this past week. Monday was pretty normal. Tuesday we went to Gingy's house to make cookies and were there until Addie's nap time. She was so funny when no one was looking (or so she thought) she would try to get a handful of cookie dough and stick it in her mouth. I can't tell you how many times Gingy fished it out of her mouth! I swear that child is into EVERYTHING all the time! Mom says she is just like I was when I was little, but I don't think I could have ever been that bad ;) Wednesday Addie and I spent alot of the day cooking and trying to get daddy out of the kitchen, he would have to "sample" all the goodies. But who could blame him??? his wife has become an awesome baker (haha). Wednesday evening we started at my Papa John's house with dinner then open presents with my mom's side of the family. Addie got alittle overwhelmed with all the kids and toys so we had to come home and chill out a few minutes before we went to Graham's aunt's house. We got over to Terri's and opened presents from that side of the family. Addie got a fire truck riding/pushing toy that OF COURSE plays music, a baby doll, some blocks and a dress (so cute I'll make sure and get a picture). She LOVES the fire truck, she figured out the whole pushing it thing on Christmas day (when she had more time to play with it) and she pushes it all over the house. Within the same day of learning how to push and walk with it she took her first 2 steps! She has done it a few times here and there since then but crawling is faster. I bet we will have a walker before she is 11 mths old (jan 16). Santa visited our house that night and left Addie, mommie and daddy all kinds of goodies! We ended up having to wake Addie up about 10 Christmas morning (that child would sleep all the time if you would let her!). We decided to go ahead and feed her first, figuring if she opened presents first she would not want to eat and just play. So we had breakfast and opened presents, let me tell you she had figured it our by then and she was ripping through those presents so fast. Santa brought her a bouncing zebra that plays music, a table that has buttons and music on it, another baby doll, and several other things (Santa may have gotten in trouble by higher authority for buying too much stuff) but Addie favorite came in her stocking.....................she got her very own measuring cups! She loves them and carrys them everywhere. Just like her mommie she is going to be a cook!
We played all day and MeeMee, Papaw , Uncle Sam and Aunt Nikki came over that night to do dinner and presents. Yes I cooked AGAIN! I feel like that's all I have done for the past month and half! Addie got SEVERAL more toys that night but her favs are a train that you put balls in and it spits them out from Sam and Nikki and a Kitty pillow and blanket that MeeMee and Papaw got her. And the big thing was a blow up house thing that had those plastic balls in it, Addie has tasted EVERY ball and just crawls in and out, in and out, in and out!
Friday.....................I know Christmas went on FOREVER for us this year!
Miranda, Manny and Ali came in town Friday so that night we did dinner and presents with them. I tell you I thought I, I mean Santa went overboard but my mom is another story! She got Addie books, and dolls, and push toys and clothes, and other small toys then she got her and Ali matching wagons. They both were so excited! Addie crawled into it herself and sat down (there is one in the baby class at church and she loves going for rides). We had to put it in the garage so Addie will leave it alone.
All in all we had a great Christmas, not because of the things we got but because we got to spend time with family and it was so much fun to see Addie get so excited! It was like we were kids again. Christmas with your kids is AWESOME! Maybe some of our Friends out there can start having some kiddos so Addie will have friends to play with.................HINT HINT.......you know who you are! LOL! We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and will have a Happy New Year!!