Addy Update

Addy is getting older and wiser each day.  She is a super big sister and now that Ella is moving around, she is a huge help when my hands are full and Ella is getting into trouble (more details on my mischievous monkey in the Ella update!)   She is also super cooperative now that Ella is getting into all of her stuff.  She'll start screaming for Ella to stop, but she doesn't have melt-downs when Ella starts chewing on her art or something.  The other day I walked down the hall and realized Addy's bedroom door was closed and when I peeked in and asked what she was doing she said she was playing with her little legos and closed the door so that Ella wouldn't get them because she knows Ella can't play with little toys she can put in her mouth.  Ella is also attracted to the nightlight in her room, so if we are playing in Ella's room, Addy will just go unplug it and set it on the cabinet without me even asking her to.  She isn't changing diapers yet, but if she was a bit bigger I think that she would! 

Addy is always offering to feed Ella 

It is scary, but I'm starting to see a lot of me in Addy.  For one, she is always working on craft projects, mainly drawing pics and her favorite things to draw right now are fairies and Clifford.  We have mountains of her drawings around.  Our neighbor gave her an old diary that her daughter had never used and Addy fell in love with it, and it quickly became her "field journal" (if you watch the Tinkerbell movie, The Great Fairy Rescue you'll know where she picked up this term).  Realized it was great because it kept everything together in a nice little book.  It was great until she locked the lock and then lost the key that is.  Here are a couple of her recent masterpieces.  

Another recognizable trait she seems to have inherited from me is the need to clean/organize things but make a huge mess in the process.  Here she is reorganizing her craft supplies.  Seriously every drawer was emptied, paper and stuff everywhere, but she did end up cleaning it all up somehow. 

Addy still likes to make her own lunch now and again and is quite creative in her menu selection.  The other day she had cashews, an orange and grated cheese - all things that she could locate and do herself.  My favorite new chore she likes is cleaning up the dog poop in the backyard.  She just got the scooper one day and went at it.  I was expecting chaos, but she does a really good job.  I imagine she'll be completely mortified by this picture when she is in high school! 

She also likes to decorate the house for the holidays.  Christmas really kicked it off and we've been going holiday to holiday ever since.  Recently when she found out that Easter was the next holiday coming up, there was a very pressing need to get the house decorate as soon as possible.   I was able to get her to wait until I was done hosting a wedding shower here at the house, but the next day the Easter decorations came out.  Never mind it was still a month and a half until Easter!  There were lots of bunny ears and egg hunts for a while.  Think she's over it now, so hopefully egg dying will get her back in the holiday spirit when Easter actually gets here. 

Other big activities at the house are picking weed-flowers in the yard and generally just enjoying being outside again.