Milk and Cookies... Oh what fun! Addie Girl turned ONE!

12 Months went by too quickly. Our sweet baby is 1 year old already!!

At her 12 month check up Addie was 29 ¼ inches tall, weighing in at a whopping 18.5 lbs. She is 50 % for height and 40% for weight.

At 12 months Addie is pushing things all over the house to help her walk, climbing on chairs, climbing on tables, loves playing by putting things in other things, and enjoys her siblings SO much. She tries to follow them everywhere! She is really outgoing. She still likes to cuddle.

She is still taking a 1-2 hour morning nap (when time allows) and a solid 4 hour nap every afternoon, with a bedtime around 7:30. She is my best eater. Don't let all the sweetness fool you though, this girl's got attitude! She does this high pitched scream when she wants something you have and you don't get the hint the first time she asks. She also raises her hand up and does a come hither motion while saying, “me.”

I had to throw her the birthday bash of a life time. I wanted her first birthday to be special, so I tried to incorporate a few of her favorite things.... Cookies and milk. So we went with that theme. Milk and Cookies with a vintage twist. She had the time of her life. We had it at her favorite park with 40 of her closest friends and family ;) There were 5 different types of cookies, brownies, oreo balls, and strawberry, chocolate, or plain milk. To top it all off, she got her very own individual cake. She partied hard all night... literally. We got home and she was so sugared up that she didn't go to sleep until 1 am. She got the most out her special day.

Addie's Eleventh Month

I'm a little behind, but here is a post devoted to Addie's 11th month.  At ll months my sweet girl was standing supported, playing peek-a-boo, shaking her head no and yes, and crawling at warp speeds to keep up with her brother and sister.  She LOVES eggs, anything sugar, and all carbs.  She is my girl.

She loves to push her "walking" toys around, play outside, and swing on the playground.

Isn't she the cutest thing ever!?!  Seriously, cutest ever

Happy Birthday America!!

We have been loving summer!! Lexi had swim lessons the two weeks leading up to the fourth of July.  She did AWESOME!! As long as she has her goggles on, she has no fear.  She started jumping in, getting her head wet, and even completely submerging herself.  She even started trying to swim.  By the time swim lessons were over, she didn't even need her floats anymore!  Impressive.

Her buddy Ella was in her class.

On the last day she jumped off the diving board and swam to the edge.  This week, she swam all the way from one side of the pool to the other..TWICE!

For the Fourth of July Grandma and Grandpa Thygerson and Uncle Zach came out to visit.  It was so fun having them here all weekend!  For the fourth, we started our day with the Firecracker fun run and 5 K.  I won first place for the women.  Lexi ran the whole mile of the fun run!  The last 10 feet or so she sat down and started to sob.  Grandma asked what was wrong and she said "I told my dad I was going to win!  But I didn't those guys did.  Now I'm just a loser."  We told her that as long as she did her best, that was all that mattered and she finished the race.  I gave her my medal.  She was thrilled.  After our little fun run and pancake breakfast we headed home and relaxed all day until we headed over to the park at Valley View for a firework show.   

It was so fun!  We ordered pizza and had it delivered (via Adam Bhul the bicycle delivery boy).  We just relaxed and played games and hung out until the fireworks.  Gauge even snuck in a little nap.

The firework show was awesome!  It was really long, really colorful, and really entertaining.

Everyone was exhausted after.  It was a long walk to the car.

Addie is 10 Months!

Addie has been 10 months for a while now... but I have been one busy mommy.  Glad I'm finally getting around to posting.  At 10 months Addie is more active then ever.  She is a super-fast-turbo crawler, pulls herself to stand up on all the furniture, pushes things around so she can walk, and loves getting into everything.

She loves to eat!!  Her favorite  foods are cheerios, grapes, yogurt, and ice cream.  She loves to be right next to her mom most of the time, but leaves her side to explore occasionally.

Despite this picture, she is a really happy girl almost all the time.  We sure to do love this sweet girl!

Perfect Pet Piggy

We've been debating getting a pet for a while now.  It is hard.  You have to commit to a lot.  After a lot of research and exploration we finally decided a micro mini pig is the pet for us.  We started searching for breeders in our area and were disappointed when we found out how expensive the little buggers are!! We're talking 2,000 and up.  Crazy.  Plain Crazy to spend two grand on a pet.  We didn't.  We lucked out and found the perfect breeder who only charged us 500$.  Still a little too pricey for my liking but, I'll take it.  We got there and fell in love right away with the sweetest (though deathly frightened) little piggy.  We brought him home that day. On the way home we tried to come up with the perfect piggy name.. Bruce, Zeus, Pink Sparkle, Sizzle, Lex, Mit, chinny, Moley, and many more.  Zeus was the winner due to veto power by Dad.

All three kids are OBSESSED with her... Obviously.  I guess Ty and I are pretty fond of her too.  

This girl holds Zeus all day long!!

He loves Addie.  Addie liked holding the leash until he came up to her... then she was so scared and tried to crawl away as fast as she could looking at me with pleading eyes. 

Zeus doesn't love the harness yet... but soon, I'm sure he'll get used to it.  He's already making such great progress.  He isn't scared of us as much anymore and goes potty.  He's had only two accidents yesterday and one today.  Making progress.

Gauge just keeps saying, "where pig?" "Hi pig!!" "I lugh (love) you pig."  He's very sweet to it.

Addie, 9 Months

I feel so lucky to have this gorgeous little girl in our family.  She is so cheerful and bright every single day.  At nine months she has her FIRST TOOTH.  It is down on the bottom left side.  She is getting really quick at crawling and can now go from crawling to sitting, laying, and standing.  She can crawl on her hands knees, but still thinks its faster to army crawl and let her legs flail un-moving behind her.

She loves to eat!! She'll eat anything.  She's pretty into people food right now, but will still eat baby food.  A few weeks ago I have her pieces of a hamburger (meat only) and she loved it.  She loves meat!  She also loves cheerios.  She gets so excited whenever I pull out the box.  It's super cute.. She starts clapping and breathing hard, loud, and fast, almost snorting. 

She has started to love being read to and watching live shows at Disneyland or the library.  

She loves to wave.  She does it at anyone she makes eye-contact with.  Let me tell you, it is quite dramatic.  She raises her hand as high as it can go... then gives a little twirl with her hand.  It is ADORABLE.  Speaking of adorable, she started making this kissing noise with her mouth today that is the cutest.  I love my girl.

And so does everyone else.  These guys were begging for a picture with the little bug.  I love this picture.  This is real life.  This is my life. I am so blessed.

Exploring

Living in Southern California, with millions of other people, it seems like there would be a lack free land to let the kids go out and explore, but the opposite it true.  Even with its fast-pasted, free-way ridden ways, California offers multiple places to go out and enjoy nature.  We are fortunate enough to have one literally within walking distance of our house.  The Lake-bed is an open area, surrounded by big houses, with ample trails, blackberry bushes, trees, flowers, and wildlife.  My kids never get home from the Lake-bed without being totally and completely wore out... just the way I like em'. ;) 

About a month ago now (I am so behind on posting!!) we decided to have a little picnic and collect things to  do our "nature paintings" my children are so fond of.  We packed up a picnic lunch, loaded the stroller and headed over.

Addie loves riding in the stroller now.  She feels like a big girl!  I'm not ready to admit that she actually is getting to be quite the big girl now.

Lex loves her sister.  She's always begging for a picture with her.

Yes, that is an Easter bucket we're using to collect our treasure.... Sometimes you just grab the closest thing, I've found myself being more creative than I ever thought possible now that I have three kids.

One outfit change when we got home, and I went to put Gauge and Addie down for naps, came downstairs and found her right there.  She slept there for THREE hours!! Like I said, they come home utterly exhausted, every. single. time.  and I LOVE it.

We saved our painting for the next day... She wanted to paint her like an "IndianWarrior"  so  we did.  

Addie is 8 months!

Why does it feel like time is going by twice as fast as usual?  These sweet babes are growing up right before my eyes.  I wish so desperately that I could make time stand still.  I am trying my best to enjoy each and every moment. I am holding my babies more, rocking Addie to sleep occasionally and even holding her for some naps.  I don't want to look back and wish I had enjoyed her baby stage more.  She is cute.  She is happy.  She is funny! 

At 8 months Addie can crawl, sit, stand, and eat.  Boy can she eat!  Shes mastered the pincer grasp.  She has pristine eye site.  She can spot the smallest most insignificant piece of anything and crawl over and put it in her mouth in the second it takes me to turn around.  She has figured out how to open drawers and empty them out, but she still doesn't go from crawling to sitting.  She will pull herself to standing from sitting.  She is sleeping through the night! Hallelujah!! She loves watching her siblings and is thrilled whenever people give her attention.  She started to wave the most adorable hand twirling wave while we were in Vegas.  She continues to love Bath time, being rocked and cuddled, and doing her own thing.  

She loves to relax, but she loves to explore. I switch out her toys really often because she seems to tire of toys easy.  

She was getting so mad at me for not helping her sit down.

She was coming after me.  I love this little girl.  I am so grateful every single day that she came to our family. She is a little slice of Heaven.  I love you Addie Jan!

Williams Vegas Vacation 2014

Tyson NEVER takes off work.  Like 7 whole days in 2013.  He is "allowed" 4 weeks.  I was thrilled when he told me to plan a vacation! It would be our first ever family vacation without anyone else.  I picked Vegas and Tyson and I sat down and planned out the week.  I could hardly wait!

We stayed at the Trump International.  It was SO NICE! 

The first thing we did was get in the pool.  The kids could hardly wait.  

The next day we went to the Natural History Museum.  It was underwhelming, but the kids did enjoy all of the taxidermy animals.

They had exhibits for each type of habitat.

King Tuts recreated tomb was a favorite of everyone.

They had a fun hands on kid section.  The kids really really liked the submarine.

Up next we checked out the Discovery Kids museum.  That place was AWESOME!! The kids love love LOVED it!  

They got to lift up the car.  Gauge loved using his big muscles.

The water room was by far everyone's favorite.

You could put the ball on the track, which lead it to the fountain, which shot it up to a different track where it went on a long ride all around the room and back to the pool.

There was one room that had a giant play ship and a castle, with a stage in-between.  It was complete with a huge closet full of dress up close.

One room was set up to test your building skills against earthquakes.

This was a frozen man on the street, he stayed in that position for so long!  Lexi LOVED looking at all the street performers.

The M&M factory was so fun!  They had this cool interactive 3D movie, not to mention floor to ceiling M&M dispensers.  YUM!

The Coke Factory was pretty awesome too.

I didn't get pictures of all the shows we went to, but the kids said they really liked the fountain show in Ceaser's Palace, the crying and terrified faces during the show must have just been to keep up appearances.  We also watched the volcanoes erupt, and the fountain show.  The conservatory and secret garden was fun too.

Another pool day after a trip to target to buy some floaties (who leaves the floaties at home?!  Geeze).

Bubble bathes are the best!  The only thing better is when you talk daddy into climbing in too.  The family sized bath was another one of our favorite parts of the vacation.

The bubbles got a little out of control... At one point we lost Gauge, and eventually they overflowed all over the bathroom.  I was glad we were in the hotel bath!   

It was the best vacation ever!! No one was ready to go home, back to reality.  We all loved having daddy all to ourselves for 5 whole days!  Absolute bliss.  I'm already scheming on our next vacation.