Addyson update..14.5 months old!

Its been a while since I updated about my girl, so I figured it was time! I can't believe she is almost 15 months. I thought the first year went fast, but I already feel like this year is going faster. It has been a busy summer for us but not necessarily in the way I expected, or hoped. But this is life. The one constant good in my life through all the change and tough times we are going through right now in this stage of life is my girl. She keeps me going, everything I do I do it for her, and it is SO worth it. Some days are fabulous and feel easy peasy, but on the hard days..those days where it feels like life is swallowing you up, she keeps me swimming to the surface! Oh how I love this girl...

So on to the updates..well folks there is never a quiet or dull moment in our house! We have a busy one!! Busy but so good. I do find being out and about a challenge only because most of the time I am chasing after her, and I am still not quite use to it:) But she is so good; self entertains so well, smiles, laughes, amusses herself as well as her mommy and daddy and everyone else around! She doesn't walk, she runs. She talks non stop. She laughes, and mimics, and closes doors, and open cupboards and presses the stereobuttons multiple times a day! Again, never a dull moment. But than there are things that make her..her. her uniqueness, one of a kindness, the things we love! She loves to mimic, this is her latest thing. The funniest one she came up with this month was mimicing yawning. For some reason one day she saw her daddy yawning and just started to chuckle. So now, all you have to do is say, addy are you so tired and her arms go up in the air and she makes this little grunt sound..its so cute! She loves going up and down the stairs. And at bed time, all you have to do is ask her if its time for bed, and she marches right up to the gate and wants to go up..so precious;) A few weeks ago, she had a little blanky in her hand from her doll and she took it to the floor like she was wiping something up. So now if you give her a cloth and ask her to wash the floor, she will do it!..thats right, starting them young!haha
Her favorite show is in the night garden as she has a little igglepiggle doll..strangest show, but she loves it! her favorite video is still her praise baby or baby einstein. She loves puppets!!
And dogs, she loves dogs!! and yes, everytime she sees one she barks at them..arf. arf..arf..arf, it so cute;) but she still can't seem to understand yet that cats don't bark; so for now, according to her they do! She has quite a list of vocabulary. She is well known already for her "whats that?? oh, what is it??...non stop multiple times a day! so cute!! She says bupa(papa), ba(ball), baba(bottle), bubo(bubble), dada, mama, hi. She signs, please, thank you, more and finished. She knows where her nose and head are, but is still convinced her belly is her bum!

Oh, there is just so much, she is so full of personality, funny faces and expressions, laughs, wierd monster sounds where we are not sure where she gets them from, and so much more!! Just love her, just love her....

Here are a few pics; I really have not taken many recently with the busyness of life, and well, my camera isn't the greatest with moving targets!!

So this is how most of the pictures turn out...give me that camera mama!!

As much as she loves her videos, she loves the cases!

Styling in her rain boots!!

ten things I love about fall!

So I still will be back with an update on my girl, but she is a little tricky to take pictures of right now..so for now I will share this. I am ready for fall, so ready. which is wierd because usually I can't stand the thought of summer ending. But this summer was a little different for us, with a one year old, an extremely tight budget, and me going back to work, it just didn't feel the same. I would say my highlight of the whole summer was the Lion King...fantastic, that is all I have to say!! Anyways, so I am ready to embrace fall, and here are a few things I am looking forward to!

1. Hot drinks. I have been drinking cold drinks galor, but I am ready for them!! Gingerbread lattes, bailey's with coffee, Earl Grey Tea lattes..yumm yumm!

2. Another drink that I am so ready to embrace again is my other lover; Red wine!! oh how I have missed you this summer;)!

3. Comfort food..I am talking lasagna, casserols, mashed potato's and gravy...ohhhh, bring on the carbs!!!

4. And to cover the bloated belly I will be sporting from all those carbs; its hoodie time! i love Hoodies, in the summer, in the fall, year around, I love hoodies!! and cardigans, I love cardigans!! and for an early birthday present, my mom took my shopping at Joe for some fall clothes, including some fabulous sweaters!!

5. the leaves, I love leaves, and I can't wait to see my daughter playing in them!

6. Cold crisp clean air!! ahhh, i have missed you!

7. My birthday/anniversary/thanksgiving week-weekend!!!woohoo!!

8. The pumpkin patch with addy, it will be her first time, and choosing which halloween costume she will wear this year; so much fun!!!

9. fireplaces!! I cant wait to use our fireplace. since we moved into our new place in march, we only got to use it a few times; I can't wait to use it more!!

10. oh and the last one..well, I can't wait to see my girl in her new fall wardrobe its going to be adorable!! have I mentioned I love having a girl????


Sooooo...whats on your list...post it to your blog and share with all if you want!! i can't wait to hear!

Its been weeks!

Its been weeks since i have posted, and it seems like yesterday! crazy!! I can't believe its been almost three weeks that I have been back to work; time is flying!! So work, first of all, overall its good. I enjoy the environment, the day's tend to go by fairly quickly, the perks are fantastic, and it makes time fly!! The shift work is giving me lots of time with my girl, and that is the most important part! I am learning lots, doing well as I am told, which feels so great!! Its great to have adult conversation and be social. Its funny being one of the oldest people there though, and having older gentlemen asking me how they let someone as young as me get married??hahaha!! its the ponytail I have to wear;) The negatives..there are some, I am not going to lie..I am tired, oh so tired. I now feel like I have two full time jobs. This week is better, and overall I do better in life when I am busy, but sometimes I don't feel like i have time to breathe or any for myself, and than I get a little edgy:) I haven't worked this hard, in well..never!! And I get my first paycheck this friday and I am pretty sure I am going to cry:( See, the job market is a little tight out there, and for the convience of being with my child I have taken a MASSIVe pay cut..so that is going to sting..but I am continuely grateful and trying to focus on the benefits; but once in awhile, I like to feel sorry for myself for a bit, just a bit:) So that is work, work is life, but its a stage of life, that I keep reminding myself as well! And its character building, oh is it ever character building!!

So besides that, not much else to report on in life. We have a birthday party this weekend, than a fun shopping day in the city with my mom in a few weeks for her birthday, than hopefully another fun family day at the end of the month to celebrate my parents 35 anniversary! and than soon it will be October, and well, I love October....our third anniversary, my birthday, halloween which now equals adorable costumes for my girl. and sweaters, fireplaces, wine..lots of red wine...I am ready to embrace fall!!! ooohhh, I think I might have to come back with my top ten things Iam looking forward to for fall..stay tuned!

Oh, and I will be back with an update of my girl, its been a while, and she has changed..oh she has changed...my baby no more, my toddler, oh how I love my toddler:)! But I need pics, and Ihavent taken those in a while, so I will be back!!

Hope you all are having a great week, enjoy whats left of the sun!!xoxo, me:)

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, its back to work I go:)

Yes tomorrow is the big day, I am heading back to work! I can't believe the time is come; it all feels so surreal. So yes I did manage to find a job after what seemed like an eternity. Turns out we still aren't out of this recession:) Its not what I was hoping for, its not what I expected or had planned in my head, but I am trusting God for great things to come out of this. One being, and this is the best part out of all of it..I get to raise my child!! I will be working some lovely shift work, but it means only working a few days which hopefully my mom can watch her, and than the rest evening shifts. Its going to mean some very long days for me, lots of hard work, and a big change in lifestyle, but I know in time we will adjust, we always do:) So if you can say a little prayer for me this week as I am nervous not only about going back to work, but to a new job, lots to learn, and some days I still have "mommy" brain:) I will keep you updated on this new venture and new stage of our life, but until than I am off to savour my 16 hours left of my etended mat leave;)

Its in the details

We haven't been inspired to do much painting around our house since we moved in. We painted the two bathrooms upstairs as the color was, well, ugly, so they needed to be painted. And maybe in the fall when the paint wont melt off the walls we will continue with some other rooms.
So for now, Addyson's room had to be decorated with details, as the paint color is quite neutral. Again to save $$ I have been trying to keep it simple but to add a few fun things. And oh does this girl love stuff on her walls. She is such a little smarty pants already and will point to anything new on the wall as she knows that wasn't there before!

First...I was finishing addyson's one year scrapbook and had purchased this peice of paper. But I decided that it was too cute to scrapbook over so I came up with the idea to frame it. So off to Michaels we went and I found this scrapbook frame for 40% off, so the whole cost for this picture and frame was $8! And she loves to point to it and ask what it is! I think its pretty cute;)

This clock Dave picked out. We thought it was so cute and very fitting for a wee girl who has no concept of time! yet, that is:)

I found this wall decals at Home Depot and I love them! They are textured, and bright and glossy and oh so much fun!



These letters were given to Addyson when she was born but came in white. So I decided to paint them pink with white poka dots..I love them:) And had lots of fun painting them too!

This Chandelier...oh this chandelier..well this one wasn't in the budget, but her birthday gift from her Nana and Papa, and I adore it, and so does she!

So there you have a little taste of our sweet girls room. We decided one of the reasons we don't want to paint either because one day she will be moving into the room next door, so we will wait to paint her big girl room instead! but not yet!! she is NOT a big girl yet, even if she thinks she is sometimes, I will keep my baby a little longer thank you very much!

Mini project

For Addyson's first birthday We "borrowed" some chairs from my parents place, and have failed to return them yet;)*grin* My parents have so many of these white ones that we thought we would keep a few;) So four have stayed at our place and work well in our little backyard. We don't have a patio set yet, but I would like one for the backyard, as we have two chairs upstairs on our little baclony where we love to sit on these gorgeous summer nights and drink under the stars;) So with the $$ situation being tight I really need to start getting creative. So my thinking is this; spice up these white old chairs, get my mom to help me(meaning pick out the material with my mom and get her to make) make some cushions for these chairs, and keep our eyes open for a used cheap round patio table that I can spice up to match..and whalla, I will have a patio set for bbq's and card night with friends:) So, I picked up a lovely $6 can of spray paint this weekend and away I went! I made the mistake of spraying on the stone area first, and did not impress Dave as now we have some silver stones..whatever:)! But I learned from my mistake and moved to the grass and managed to get two chairs done, and I think they look snazy, new and improved! I was quite proud of myself, and think I might get addicted to the power of spray paint:)! stay tuned for more stuff in the future I think!

Before!



After!