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 :-)

Time for the first haircut

Addi's hair had finally started to be a bit unruly. It was time for the first hair-cut. We put her in her travel feeding chair, put on a video of elmo and I went to town. I'm sorry that I don't have a picture of her squirming or of her trying to get out of her chair (while buckled in). These first few pictures and the before :-)

Pre-Mullet stage

I don't really know what I'm doing.

Thankfully, she likes elmo.

On the downside, she will only look up :-)

The best part was that she was trying to see

what I was doing and kept turning her head.

Sooo, it's a little shorter on the left side...ah well.

This was the best shot I could get from the back

because she was done sitting.

Leaves and a one-year-old :-)

Welcome Fall! Today we woke up to a blanket of leaves as a lot of wind came through last night. Grammy took Addi out to play earlier and we decided to go play again for the pictures (and the fun of course). Adalie was standing at the door saying, "walk" which means, "Hey Mama and Papa, let's go." She loved when we threw the leaves and even tried to throw a few herself. Even though Mom and Dad's camera is awesome, the pictures keep showing up very blurry in the blog - any suggestions?

This one is my favorite

"I'll try"

Buried by Mama and Papa and not

too sure about it.

Papa and the distracted baby

Mama too

Hello All

In all fairness, I would have blogged sooner (well, maybe not), but our camera has gone to the great place in the sky where all good cameras go when they are left on an airplane (oops!) Thankfully, my parents have a camera, so we've not lost ALL of our memories :-)
Work has been going well for Nicole. I'm getting to know students and staff in all of the classrooms. This is a fantastic school district to work for. I feel completely supported which is awesome as this is a brand new position. I still find it hard to be away from Adalie during the day, but am thankful for the way things are getting busier. We've been having fun working on projects around the house. The garden is set for the fall and we're getting our summer things put away.

After the intense heat of this summer, it was nice to have

some September evenings that were comfortable. Addi's favorite

place to be is outside. She particularly loves flowers and the

neighbor's cat, Spot.

When you say, "Addi, smile," this is

what she does.

"Look mama, I did not eat that leaf."

"But I might eat this one"

"Mama, will you give me that worm?"

"Here spot, do you want it?"

Addi likes to help Grammy when she cooks.

So far, the sink is working well as a work

station.

This is the only picture we have of Adalie's first boat ride. We went to the Columbia (we ususally go to the Snake) to go fishing. It was SOOOO windy and wavy. There were a few moments where I was planning how to swim to the shore towing Addi. We all got a little grumpy - except for Adalie. She loved it.

Last Saturday, we went to Klickers. It's like Lonepine. We took a few pictures, climbed on their giant hay pyramid and got a video of my parents going down the big slide. I would post it here, but.....:-)

More helping

Adalie found the broom and decided to help. She is such a good helper.

She did pretty well and only almost poked our eyes out a few times.

Such a strong girl

Our big October adventure has already happened. I was able to go to the AAMFT (American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists) conference in Sacramento. We decided to make it a family trip. Sandy, Adalie and I flew down to Sacramento for the long weekend. We stayed with Sandy's parents and got to see the whole fam (shout out to Dale and Joy). I drove into town each day and was thankful for very manageable traffic. The conference was great and time with family wonderful. Adalie entertained us all. I don't have any pictures of this trip because on the way there, I left our camera under the seat on the plane (just one of those things....but man, it's a bummer). Lindsay and Joy took some pictures, so I'll post them when I steal...I mean get them from snapfish.

Hopefully, we'll be blogging more regularly now ( I know I always say that, but, we'll see). We are so thankful for so many things, but miss those we left in Eugene (and I guess Springfield :-)