Women

"You know girls that are grown ups are called womens". Addie

posted from Bloggeroid

Mothers day party at Addisons school

Each child was able to sing a song and Addie sand Twinkle Twinkle and all the Moms were so impressed how well she did. Little do they know we start our children out early with a whole arsenal of songs, another reason I love primary! I was very proud of her showing such restraint and just mouthing the words to everyone elses songs. Addie is such a firecracker, I love her! It was a special day for me to be there and get my special time with Addison. I will miss working in the classroom regularly when the year ends, I really do enjoy it.

posted from Bloggeroid

Answerduce = introduce

"Mom I can't even wait to answerduce my cousins to my friends at my birthday party". Addison (4)

Answerduce, love it!

posted from Bloggeroid

Poor Addie had to get 4 shots and a TB test for Kindergarten

Mom I got a TV shot, but don't worry I watch a lot of shows.

Mom did you know the TV shot reminds me not to watch too much shows

-Addison (4)

posted from Bloggeroid

Happy Halloween 2010

We spent Halloween night in Darmstadt, Germany. The castle there is called Burg Frankenstein (Frankenstein Castle). They did a family friendly early evening. The characters were out in full force but not harassing the small children, just the adults and/or teens. It was really impressive, of course you really can't ask for a better backdrop for a haunted house than the ruins of a castle with a colorful history including an inhabitant who in the name of alchemy was reducing down human and animal body parts in hopes of creating an elixir which would grant the drinker eternal life.

Addison loved it. By the end she had "pounded" it with a troll, hugged a zombie, danced with a witch, and had a lengthy conversation with Frankenstein the monster before he turns evil and seeks to kill Victor not the green guy with bolts in his neck. (Note: Because Frankenstein was the star of the show, it having been rumored that Mary Shelley got the idea to call her scientist Frankenstein because of this very castle, they had at least three different versions of the Monster and one Victor Frankenstein milling about the castle grounds. Addie most liked the one that looks most like the version from the movie with De Niro.)

It was a pretty great Halloween.


































































































































































































































































The biggest differences we noticed between this and US haunted houses, was a) it was in a real castle that is believed to be haunted; b) the characters were allowed to touch you. They would walk up and put their hands around your throat. We saw teens pinned to the ground, carried away and locked in coffins and boxes, tied down to an inquisition style rack and stretched until he said stop (at which point he was tickled mercilessly), and at one point a skeleton wielding a real sword walked up behind Megan and ran the sword up the inside of her calf. And this was all at the Halloween for Kids version where they are all on their best behavior.

*They adored Addison though, and even at the end as we were leaving they were still pinching her cheeks and giving her high fives and ooohing and awwwing over her. One of my favorite moments of the night was when the skeleton in battle armor was pushing anyone who stood to close away to protect "Die Prinzessin". She was even giving them all hugs. They were so sweet with her, it was awesome. She kept saying "the monsters are just so totally awesome" *


Proof that she did this of her own free will!! haha

Dads new do...

Ryan and Addie laid down to take a nap. When Ryan woke up he realized that Addie had not been sleeping but playing "hairstylist"

Laguna Beach and the tide pools!

We took a break from our undying commitment to Disneyland (we have been to Disneyland every day for the last 2 1/2 weeks) to go to the beach! Addie loves the tide pools and throwing sand. She was in heaven and we always love watching the sun set on the water.
I was so excited that I was able to get so many great pictures. I haven't even touched them up with photoshop yet! Addie is just so dang cute and can't for the life of her say "sea anemone" instead she says "sea enemy". She cracks us up, she always some funny outlook on everything. We love our little 2 year old! We will miss California while we are in Germany, good thing we are coming back.

nc zoo

last weekend we went to the NC zoo. Addie loved it! She was so cute and wanted to climb on everything. here are some pics of our adventure.

pic spam

So I finally have some pictures! I also have some new pictures that i took with the fancy camera ryan got me for christmas. I thought several of them turned out awesome and i excited to learn more about my camera and hopefully in no time i will be a pro. And as soon as i get my desktop across the country with me i am going to take my cousin lindsay's idea and post my top ten favorite pictures.

durham update #2

church was interesting. There are some really nice people, i think most everyone seems pretty friendly. They are doing a spotlight about us in the ward newsletter. haha I hope that makes people want to hang out with us and not vice versa.

It was humid today like painfully soaking wet humid. We are talking sweating in places i didn't even realized could sweat. We were going to BBQ today but by the time we got home from church it was pouring down rain. (it was 95 when we left for church! ) and it looks like a lightening storm is on its way!

Addie has been trying to stand on her own. She is also eating just about everything in sight. She has also gotten a lot better at drinking out of her juice box. She has totally mastered the straw thing and we are moving onto big kid cups, since she wont take a sippy.

i feel like i am finally a real true blue mother. this morning Ryan was playing with Addie in bed and then turned around to wake me up and she crawled up over me and just as she was bending down she puked all over my face. Lucky for me, i sleep with my mouth closed! It was gross but not as gross had it been someone other than my own flesh and blood. However i wanted to die and it was hard to get the juicy juice smelling throw up out of my hair.

Oh and we went to wal mart last night... downtown ogden wal mart doesnt have anything on durham wal mart! ha.

TEN MONTHS

HAPPY TEN MONTHS ADDISON!

Today addie is 10 months old. I can hardly believe it. This year is just flying by. Here is a list of our top ten favorite things that Addie does now:

10. to carry any object with her while she crawls she always sticks it in her mouth. She is like a little puppy dog!

9. she reaches for people when she wants to show them affection even if she is all the way across the room and then continues on with whatever she was doing.

8. she claps for herself when she is proud of herself or if other people around her are clapping. I always love when she is playing or crawling across the room and if i am watching american idol and the begin to applaude she drops everything to clap with the t.v.

7. her sweet dance moves! She likes to boogey to any music that she likes! if she doesnt like it she will yell at it till i change it.

6. Peek a boo! She loves to play peek a boo and if there is anything nearby she can cover her face with, she will and then wait for you to say peek a boo!

5. her big toothy grin! There is nothing better than seeing that little toothy grin especially when it is acompanied by the cutest laugh in the world.

4. The way she poses for pictures. If you pull out a camera and call her name she will look at you and smile till youve taken the picture

3. the way she stands in her crib and will yell and scream till we come and get her. I also love when she pushes her face up against the screen and smiles.

2. her crawl! i love how she knows she isnt suppose to crawl into the bathrom and if you catch her and say her name she will turn around and give you her mischievous "carter smile" and then crawl as fast as she can to get to wherever she isnt suppose to be!

1. that she is our little girl! and when i talk to her she talks back and trys to mimic what i am saying with goos and gahs and da da's!

Home sweet home (but not for long)

it's good to be home. Addie is feeling great and her yeast infection is almost all healed and we will be done with the amoxcillan on saturday. The plan ride didnt seem to bother her ears at all. It has been fun to watch Addie discover all her toys again. She is also climbing on everything. She likes to sit up in her bed before she cries to let us know shes awake now too. So whenever i lay her down to change her diaper she just sits right back up. She is also talking a lot more and lots of different noises. She is even more interactive and has a whole batch of new facial expressions, that are pretty funny.

I have been searching high and low for a great place to live in North Carolina. I figure I have about six weeks to find a place to live and pack us up, sell all the big stuff and our car (s). Anyone want to buy an '97 gold infiniti? Perhaps a 2003 silver honda civic? ha ha. I found my dream apartment but i am not so sure we can afford it
http://www.westvillagedurham.com/

addison update:

Last night was kinda scary, i woke up to check on her in the middle of the night b/c her meds had worn off and it was time to give her more and i took her temp b/c she felt alarmingly HOT. She had a fever of 105.4! Ryan and I managed to get it back down fairly quick with a cool bath and cool towels and medicine. I am so ready for her to get better, that was a little scary. I would never want her to have convulsions, apparently at 105 they can start convulsing. So glad we caught it. Phew! Sick babies are the worst. But she is doing much better since its been almost 48 hours of antibiotics. She is actually dancing and clapping to Yo gabba gabba right now!

she is too too cute!

SHE'S HERE!

This really is the most amazing thing. By the end my epidural had started to wear off and i was really in pain but i swear the moment they laid her on my chest it didn't matter and i would have done it all again.

Addison Linda Spiers is 7 lbs and 21 inches (she's TALL and obviously that didn't come from my side of the family!) she was offically born on July 19th at 7:19pm

I am so in love with this little girl!