Whaa Happened?

Anyone ever see "A Mighty Wind"? "Whaa Happened?" is a line that always makes me laugh from that movie. Gets me every time. I love those Christopher Guest movies. Maybe I'll watch one tonight...

Ahem. Right. I was going to quickly jot down some things that Addy does/ we have done lately that I have forgotten to take pictures of (bummer), and if I don't write them down, they'll probably be lost in my pregnant brain forever. Here goes...

Addison and I made play dough for her class! It needed to be orange, and let me just tell you: if you ever have to volunteer to make homemade play dough, DON'T PICK ORANGE. Yikes! Talk about tedious! Add some red food coloring, then add some yellow. Then some more yellow, cause the red is REALLY RED. Then, oops, add more red, because the color doesn't really distribute well. And when you add red, you have to add more yellow. How much yellow? Not real sure! Sometimes one drop is too much, sometimes you need twelve! It's never the same! Add this to the fact that I was terrified of messing the play dough up- what if it wasn't doughy enough? What if it was too doughy? This wasn't the most fun experience for me or Addy. In fact, Addy hung in there for a couple of minutes, then headed outside to play while Daddy did yard work. And then Daddy gave her a bath. And read her a story. And brushed her teeth. And put her to bed. By the time he was finished with all of this, I was just about finished kneading and mixing and muscling the damn play dough together. I do have to say though, that the next morning when Addison proudly carried her beautiful orange play dough to her class room and delivered it to her teacher, it almost made all of my hard work worth it. And when her teacher oohed and aahed at my perfect shade of orange, saying she's never seen such a deep, pretty orange in home made play dough before, it almost made my sore arms feel better. Almost. Dang, that's a long paragraph for a silly story about play dough. And not one picture to show for it. Bad mommy.

What else? Lately Addy has started to hold my hand when she cuddles with me on the couch. It's just the sweetest thing. Her sweet little hand in mine, her fingers stroking my hand as she holds it... I live for it. Love it.

Addison and I decorated for Halloween a while ago, and it wasn't nearly as exciting for her as I'd hoped. She seemed to think that all of the decorations were for her to play with and didn't like me telling her that they just sat on the table, or the porch, or wherever. So, we stopped decorating, and I re-decorated when she went to bed. She did, however, help me decorate a few weeks later by hanging ghosts from the trees in the front yard. (again, no pictures!) This was lots of fun for us, as we crumbled up newspaper and stuffed it into individual white bags, tied them up, and headed outside to hang them. Every time we drive by the front yard (our driveway is in the back), she proudly says "There's our ghostses!"

Addison also helped me make Halloween goodie bags for her school friends. This was lots of fun for us too. We got little play doughs, bubbles, stickers and Halloween crayons and she packed each bag herself. She was so excited to take them to school this morning! I love the look of pride she gets when she helps with these kinds of things.

Of course, Addison loves her new cousin. The day Annalie was born, I waited until she got up from her nap to tell her that Auntie had her baby, and she was SO EXCITED. "Baby came out of Auntie's tummy?! I have new cousin, I have new cousin!" She jumped up and down in her crib, she couldn't contain herself! That is, until we actually saw the baby. At that moment, she didn't want anything to do with her. We might have been a little over-zealous in trying to get Addison to kiss and hug her new cousin, and I quickly learned not to force it. In her own time, Addison slowly came around and wanted to see her. This taught me that when her own baby sister/brother comes, we are all going to have to be very careful not to make TOO big of a deal about the new baby, and to let Addy get excited about being a big sister in her own time. She did show a couple of signs of jealousy in those first couple of days, too. When I would hold Annalie, Addison would appear out of nowhere, "Mommy, hold me!" I explained that when I held the baby that I couldn't hold her, that she would get her turn soon, and she quickly found a new way to entertain herself. Like by trying to feed the baby chips. Or trying to open the baby's eyes. Or by telling the baby "talk, baby, TALK!!!" Sigh, she has a lot to learn about babies ;)

Hmm... when I started this post I had so many thoughts, but I didn't expect them to be such long winded thoughts. My apologies. I think there were a dozen other things I wanted to get out before I forgot... but now it's too late. Pregnant mind has absorbed them and thrown them into lala land, along with the last place I had my sunglasses, which way to wear my underwear (true story: the last two days I wore my underwear inside out), and whether salt goes in the pantry or fridge (I found it in the fridge this morning).

One thing I can't forget to blog about: Addison had her Halloween parade today at school, I will make a separate post about this later. While you sit on the edge of your seat waiting, just know that it was the cutest thing EVER, ever, EVER.

Until then, "Whaa happenned?"