Quite the little reader

One day, I was sitting on the couch reading the paper. I looked up and saw Adalie sitting on the bottom step reading the paper too. She is already quite the reader. She also loves to do what we're doing. Hurray for reading!

Sandy sings

Sandy had the opportunity to sing in a couple of different venues this fall. He was asked to sing a short recital at a winery event. He and Leticia Page, a local soprano took turns soloing and sang a few duets. The evening was wonderful. Sandy sang beautifully and had fun getting back into his music. About a week later, Sandy performed again with the Walla Walla Choral Society. They sang part of the Messiah. He was one of four soloists. It was another fun evening. Sandy has enjoyed being a part of the local music scene.

After the concert. Sandy was given a boquet

(with pine cones in it :-)

Thanksgiving in Adrian

This year we took Thanksgiving to my grandparent's house in Adrian, OR. I hadn't seen the house since it was finished, so it was a special treat for me. Addi did well on the drive which is always a plus :-). Nana and Pappy have a beautiful loft house. It was a little tricky getting Adalie to sleep when she could hear us having fun. There was a lot of "No, mama" and "Mama, up".
After the first night, she got it figured out and did pretty well. We had two full days of food and some good visiting. I was able to use our new camera (because I left the other one on the plane in October..sheesh) to take some good videos of Nana and Pappy telling family stories from their childhoods. I won't post them here, but they are treasures.

Addi on a rare break from her car seat when

we stopped at the grocery store to get ice cream.

We didn't have a cooler, so dad tied it to the top of the car

with the luggage rack.

Grammy and Adalie at Nana and Pappy's house.
Everybody cooking

Pappy carving the turkey

Our little family

Mom and Dad (or rather, Dad and Mom)

Addi's fun game with her new remote

Addi the helper

Addi LOVES to help around the house. She likes to weep (sweep), do the dishes and laundry. This is the classic laundry picture and I just had to include it :-)

Ok, ok, I am blogging again :-)

Mom and Dad have music practice for church every Friday night. Addi loves to participate. She sings, dances and tries to help play the piano with Grammy and the guitar with Mrs. Gonzales. Addi has started humming and singing to herself. I'm excited to hear the songs she comes up with as she gets more words.

Happy Halloween

Last year Addi was only a few months old and not at all interested in being dressed up like a cow (last year). This year, she wasn't too sure about her costume at first. She kept grabbing at it, saying, "off." But we persisted and she soon settled in. We visited a few of the houses in the neighborhood - she did very well and even signed thank you (with a little help :-) We had a great time.

Our happy bee (with droopy wings)

Hat off

Hat on

Trick or Treat

Papa and his bee

When we got back to the house, Adalie

searched through the candy dish by the front

door and carefully moved some choice candy from

the dish to her bucket. She chewed on a few pieces

and definitely had fun shaking the nerds boxes.

New wings

First official Halloween candy

Telling Grammy about eating nerds

Yumm!

Oh, so funny....wait, that's gross!

Okay, So Adalie has recently discovered pens and pencils. She has taken to drawing on everything - she really has no idea what's she's doing. That obviously doesn't work well, so Grammy decided to try chalk. They spent some of the afternoon drawing on her new chalkboard. Shortly after I got home from work, Adalie started eating the chalk. My first instinct was to say no and then I thought, "what could it hurt, it's just chalk?" Well, we discovered that Addi really likes to eat chalk....alot.

"Mama, are you gonna let me eat this?"

"This is what chalkboards are for"

"Haha, green and yellow chalk...yummm"

Ew, this was the last picture, because

we were done eating chalk after this :-)