Puppy videos

One night when Steve was trying to put Addison to bed she was crying and uncooperative so he pulled out his phone and played some videos he found on the internet that had dogs in them.  That did the trick - Addison calmed down and he was then able to put her to bed with no crying!  From then on, every time Addy sees his phone she says "puppy yose" (for puppy videos).  She says it all the time now.  Right before sacrament meeting started one Sunday a guy sat down behind us and I heard Addison say "puppy yose".  I looked behind me at what she was looking at and I saw the guy putting away his phone that looked like Steve's phone.  :)  She LOVES dogs!

On Labor Day we took Addison to a splash park again.  Steve doesn't get to do that very often so we decided to go.  Addy is ready to go.

It wasn't the warmest day so there was nobody there when we got there.  

After the splash park we went to get a philly cheesesteak so Steve could compare it to the real thing when he goes to Philadelphia next week on a business trip.  (no pictures were taken of our cheesesteaks).

When I try to take pictures of Addison she rarely stays still.  She always wants to look at the picture taken on the camera so she's usually running after me.  So I have to run far away from her, get in position, and by the time I take it she's practically at my side again :)  She doesn't know the concept of posing for a picture yet.

One of the few pictures taken where she is standing still!

When Addy first starting eating solid foods I tried giving her a pb&j sandwich.  I think one time she ate it and then after that she wouldn't eat it.  So I stopped making them for her, a little disappointed that she was that picky (and afraid that her tastes might be high-maintenance).  I grew up eating pb&j very often in my school lunches.  I didn't want Addison to be so picky she wouldn't eat it.  So today I made a pb&j sandwich for myself and I didn't make anything for her because I wanted to see if she would eat part of my sandwich (she usually wants to at least try whatever Steve or I are eating).  And she ate it with me!  Here we are eating lunch on the floor today :)  She ate so much I had to make another whole sandwich which we both ate as well.  So she probably ate a whole pb&j sandwich herself.  We'll have to see if this was just a fluke.  Stay-tuned......

Stretching

This is how Addison stretches

Where's Uncle Doug?

Splash parks

This is Addison and her friend Austin playing at the splash park

Addison with cousin Doug at another splash park