Sunday, June 26, 2011

Adey up to date...

*Adey says so many new words...it blows my mind how much she says now..here are just a few of the many:
bath, this is, turtle, green, pie, shot, love you, bite, please, welcome, thank you, bubbles, apple, rock, snack, cereal, peach, banana, bumpy, Dada shoes, chalk, pool, water, tea, treat, bed, orange, red, white, black, oskar, hello kitty, blues clues, lion, tiger, giraffe, elephant, choo choo all gone, that one, two, three, five, six, eight, nine, ten, eleven, thirteen, heart, star, moon, circle, phone, orange juice, apple juice, cookie, strawberries, strawberry shortcake, cake, cupcake, blueberries, book, milk, water, chocolate milk, pizza, baby doll, stroller, my puppy, dinosaur, buggy,  swimsuit, can say a few peoples names from daycare plus Jay and Allison and Leandra and Julia and Danny, park, Adey's car, walk, pretty, cute, funny, kiss, hug, adey's sad, puppy's sad, flower, awake, kitchen, sweep, mop, vacuum, wash, hands, eyes, and all the other words i have listed in previous blogs...and more that i can't think of right now
*Adey can name all her colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, black, white...we are working are grey and brown
*Adey can count but misses a few numbers here and there...this is the order she says: two, three, five, six, eight, nine, ten, eleven, thirteen
*Adey is still dainty as ever...for example last night she got whip cream squirted into her hand and while her other cousins shoveled the yummy goodness into their mouths, Adey liked it lightly into hers...
*Adey can dress herself for the most part
*Adey hates having her diaper changed but we are in the process of potty training and she hates having her teeth brushed but it hasta be done because i don't want her to get cavities
*Adey loves to play dress up, take care of her babies (she is such a little mama), pretend to cook with her new kitchen that she got a little early for her birthday, do arts and craft, blow bubbles, painting her toes, coloring in her coloring books, finding her owies and getting us to kiss them, going for walks and helping us walk oskar or her little squeaky puppy, swimming (i definitely have a fish)
*Adey is definately turning into a big girl...it makes me sad but happy that she is growing up in a loving home where she is nothing but loved and gets all the attention she needs plus some...every time we are out i always hear people saying she is so cute or pretty or tall for her age or gonna be a heart breaker or tan or beautiful...we are so lucky to have been blessed with a beautiful, talented, happy little girl!

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Playing in the desert

Josh is enjoying field school.  He came home from his first 10 day stretch on Wednesday June 15th...I took him out to Texas Roadhouse after he showered for dinner...it was hard being a single parent while Josh was gone and I hope to never do it again. You can tell Adey and Oskar both really missed him and of course me too!  Josh came home with a few cuts and scratches but a ton of nat bites even though he wore long sleeves and pants and a hat and a net thing...guess he must be sweet?!  He was full of stories and almost 400 pics from the beautiful scenery and things he saw and camp too.  This next stretch he left on Monday June 20th but after I dropped him off I got to go pick up Leandra (one of my BFF's) who is staying with me for the summer.  here are a few pics from his first trip:



pretty flower

choo choo rock


footprints not of a human?!



beautiful sunset

bed...not as comfy as home!  && look there is bearmy

petriglyph

Japanese Grill

We went to this YUMMY Japanese grill for Mol's (Malinda) 31st birthday....It was a lot of fun to be with Clarissa and Alan and their boys and Malinda and Evan and their 2 and soon to be 3 kids.  Adey and Ella had a good time laughing and screaming at each other and the boys did great and enjoyed the entertainment put on by our chef and Wesley HATED the fire at the beginning.  Adey loved the soup and the crab filling to the cheese wontons....the chicken is what I had and Josh had the steak...all pretty good...the service (not the cook) could have been better. Josh, Adey and I ended up going home afterwards and just resting...we were gonna head to IKEA but too fill and tired...anyway here are a few pics from our fun lunch







Sunday, June 19, 2011

Family walk

Our last night before Josh left we took a family walk down by the Jordan river and had a picnic dinner.  It was perfect weather and perfect time of the day...we saw a couple different kinds of wild birds!  we sure are loving Utah! (sorry some of the pictures are sideways...couldn't figure out how to fix them)






a little lady bug...do you see it?

what a big girl walking her puppy?!

such a beautiful bird

look at how tall that plant is!

Hogle zoo....AGAIN

Since we got a year pass to the zoo we thought we would you know....go often!  Parking is free and so we just have to go to the zoo 3 times in a year and it pays for itself...so far we have been twice but have at least 4 more trips planned this year! So we decided to go on June 4th before Josh left for his first 10 days of field school.  This time however we also got the 12 ride pass for the train and the carousel (as i have mentioned Adey loves the carousel).  It was nice to know what we don't see this time we can come back and see another time so we only stayed about 3 hours and it was plenty long enough!


we are on the train...Adey loved it!





we took this one for my mom

We loved the momma and baby monkey...they were so beautiful!



SO tired after the zoo

Carousel at the Mall

Adey loves carousels and just had to ride the one at the mall...so Josh joined her (this was taken before he left the first time):