Trey

I could have watched this sweet boy play with those toys all day. I was amazed at how interested he was in the "new" toys at Mema and Pepa's house. I love to watch children discover new things.

He was in heaven with the "big boy" tinker toys and legos!

Addyson

It was too fun getting shots of my little ham Addy and learning my new camera! This girl is SO much fun to be around! And she is a doll!

Maryland Crab

We bought a few small crab at a local crab shop. Nathan wanted to get the full Baltimore experience while here. Ethan and I wanted to try as well. All I can say it it's a LOT of work for a little amount of meat! We could have got great big crab that might had been more enjoyable, but we did not have a great big budget!

That night Nathan grilled us some awesome steaks which made for a really nice meal. Ethan said it was defiantly one of the best steaks he'd eaten! We sure are going to miss have good ol Nate here with us, he has been a joy!

What Bryn and I have been up to

This summer has gone by way faster than I wanted it to. I had lots of goals for the summer but one of my main goals was to teach Brynlee how to read. Big goal I know, but she wants it SO bad. I am not the kind of mom than thinks that my kindergartener need to be reading Harry Potter by the time she starts school, but I do think that when a child is ready they are ready.

She keep asking me.

And asking me!

I feel a little guilty because I know that she was ready awhile ago but I was dragging my feet. It has been going well so far. She does not have a long attention span, but when we do it at just the right time I am amazed at how much she picks up.

It's such a unique feeling to see your child start to learn something for the first time, that is why I love being a mom so much. I'm even amazed when I see Trey learning how to follow simple commands!

Her writing is really improving.

Today was a good day, we are almost half way through the book so we need to "book it" in order to get finished before the 29th!

(Thanks Karen for introducing us to this fabulous book!)

If you can't stand the heat...

put only the front of your shirt over your head!

See is SOUND asleep.

I promise!

The next morning I asked her about it and she vaguely remembered, then said she was hot. Its affecting all of us honey!

One of these days I will go back through and round up all the crazy sleep pics of her. I need to start getting quick snaps more often, we find this girl in the strangest sleeping positions!

It's official

Warning: I'm a little backwards on my pictures here, but it's WAY too late and I'm WAY too tired to try to fix it and have it go "in order". So here is all the out of order events of Addyson's FOURTH birthday.

Addy thought it was pretty exciting that people let off great big huge fireworks for her birthday! We went to the elementary school and they had a great show. We enjoyed the company of our new "PM&R" friends. We are so happy they have come to join us, we sure are enjoying them and "our time" has just begun!

We had a small family birthday party and had more cake of course. I think it's so cute that she had been wearing that key to her music box around her neck all day. She loves that music box.

Addy still loves Dora, and I love that she still loves it. She had lots of celebrating this year which she totally deserved since she got a little jipped last year.

Addy got a big girl bike for her birthday this year from Mema and Pepa which she was very excited about. We do have picture, but they have disappeared... hmmm those will have to come later!

She did it, she turned 4. I don't want her to be four yet, but she is!

Addy loves on me quite a bit.

She has a way of getting into trouble, lots of trouble and she is so darn cute you can't get mad... or too mad!

Addy is actually really easy going, not much phases her.

So when she does get her feeling hurt, you really feel for her cause it doesn't happen too much.

Often times she says, that's ok I don't care, about many things!

Addy would wear her swim suit or ballet every day if she could.

She would also watch t.v. all the time if I let her.

She STILL smothers Trey with "love".

I melt when she rubs my arm and she does it quit a bit, I love it!

Her giggle is still the cutest thing ever and contagious.

You often here her say to Brynlee "how ya doing Angela" in order to get play time going!

There is never a dull moment when Addy is around- NEVER!!

Addyson's "friend" party

I always tell the girls that they are not allowed to get any older, but they do.

Addy had a tinker bell party, her first "friend" party- it involved:

11 girls & a boy (that's a lot of little girls)

A moon bounce (thanks Rachel)

Strawberry cake

Strawberry ice cream

Other yummy food

Loosing Addy for a short moment to find she went up stairs (to be all alone) to paint her nails

dancing & playing with balloons

"kid music"

LOTS of FUN!

Ethan was post call and showed up the last few minutes of the party, we didn't even expect that so it was a pleasant surprises! He put on his "happy, I have lots of energy face" for the guests, I was impressed, poor sleepy guy.