Prepare to Shake Your Bootie and Other Random Funnies

When I was a very little girl (3 ish) my mom was helping me say my prayers one night and she said thank you for our health and strength. I paused for a few moments and tried to process what that meant and then quickly repsonded oh yeah, thank you for our house and street! It is always funny to hear little children's perceptions of what we grown ups are saying.... or singing in Addi's case! A few weeks ago I received a phone call from our babysitter's mother who asked me if I had heard Addi sing "I Love to See the Temple" . I replied that she sings it around the house constantly. She laughed and said no have you heard how she sings the last verse??? Here is Addi's version:

I love to see the Temple, I'm going there someday
To feel the Holy Spirit, to listen and to pray
The Temple is a house of God, a place of love and beauty
I'll prepare myself while I am young, to shake my bootie! (this is my sacred duty)

Gotta love that girl!!

When we went to the temple open house in June she wanted to know why "all you guys coming to my temple"? As soon as we entered the tents outside the temple she wanted to know where the Holy Ghost was! I replied that we don't see him and instead we will feel his presence in our hearts and minds, to which she quickly replied, " I thought this was Jesus' house, the Holy Ghost should be here, I bet he's over there (pointing to a little tunneled off area)!

This morning she asked me to sit by her on her barstool while she was eating her breakfast, before I could even respond she replied "Oh yeah, you can't cause you have a big, big, big, big, big, big, big, bum!"
You gotta love the honesty of a child :)!!

Addi's Hit the Big Time!

One of my favorite sites to visit is http://tipjunkie.blogspot.com/! The other day I checked it out and one of their new sponsors is Rabecca's Art Studio! She is the one who painted this picture of Addison to put in her gallery!! It was fun to read a few comments of people who liked the painting of the little baby with the big blue eyes!!

{Tip Junkie's currently hosting a mom-prenuer shop, stop in and check it and Addi out!!}

Hide and Seek!

Addi loves to visit B-ball Grandma's and Grandpa's. One of her favorite activities is finding the rubber duckys that Grandma or Hallee hide. Lately, however she is just as content to hide all the little duckies herself and then, you guessed it find them herself! She gets so proud of herself when she finds them all tucked just where she left them! As you can see in the picture, she hid one little duckie really well a few weeks ago and nobody can find it!! This little one is pure joy!

When Addi Ain't Happy.....Ain't Nobody Happy!

Enough Said!
No really, a few days ago one of my dear friends Heather took the plunge and the bottle away from her almost 2 year old! I have many "reasons" that my already (just barely:)) 2 year old is STILL drinking her bottle!! Now remember she is my last little baby and I don't want her to grow up! Well and there is that other FEAR that she is perhaps one of the most stubborn individuals I know and that perhaps, just perhaps if we took her precious "ba- ba" away we might experience a little drama, chaos, unrest! Nevertheless, Heather (who up to this point had been my comrade since she too still had her wee one on the baba) gave in and reports the transition despite a few incidents is going well!! Well, we did it, we followed suit, cold turkey, and let me just say.... WHAT WERE WE THINKING?!?!?!?!? Despite a few (and I use that term generously) good incidents it has been TORTURE!!! This poor little girl is going through major withdrawls and wants her baba all day long (even though she only had one for nap and nighttime)! I keep telling her that all the babas are broken, there are no more in our house!!
She told me yesterday that "gma and papa me baba", I assured her that not even her grandma and papa would get her a bottle! (Which is really not entirely true since my mom believes that there is a grandmother's handbook that entitles you to do whatever you please even if it is contrary to the house rules, ei. giving children babas despite their mothers BEGGING her not to!! I do believe to her defense that she did not cave in and give Addi a bottle yesterday despite her continued threats to do so)!!!
Last night she went down well and then decided to cry from 11:45 until 5:30am - needless to say if Addi ain't happy, ain't no one happy (especially a tired, grouchy, mommy)!