Conversations with Addison

Erik:  Addison, are you ready to take a bath?
Addison:  No, no bath
Erik:  But you have to take a bath, you stink
Addison:  Thanks

Carley:  Addison, we've got to get you potty trained
Addison:  Choo Choo!!

A Girl & Her Tiger

That's Addison on the front page of today's newspaper!  Not just the sports section, but the front page!  We took her to fan day yesterday specifically to see Mike the Tiger.  She had been talking about it for 2 days.  We had to wait in line to be able to get her picture with him.

When it was finally her turn she ran up to him.

And of course she had to kiss him good-bye :)

She loved the cheerleaders and they loved her!  Here she is saying "LSU, LSU"...

And last was our photo op with Jordan Jefferson.  Let's hope he holds on to the ball this year as well as he held onto Addison.

GEAUX TIGERS!!!

Oh this heat!

This weather has been crazy lately!  Seems like we had an abnormally cold winter and now an abnormally hot summer.  Or maybe our summers are always this hot....  Either way, this is not fun.  Check out the temperature reading in my car the other day:

Soooo in the interest of cooling off, Erik broke out the sprinkler.

Addison wasn't big on getting "rained" on.  So we tried a nice cold drink instead.

I'm thinking her bathing suit is a little too small - check out that belly :)

When we visited the Greens a few weeks ago they had rigged up their playhouse slide right into their kiddie pool.  It was so cute and Addison loved it.

I've been searching and searching for one of those blue plastic pools to put Addison's playhouse slide into, but I can't find one anywhere.  Walmart only sells them at the beginning of the summer.  Let me know if anybody knows where I can find one this late in the season.  For now, we'll be mostly playing INSIDE!  Come on Fall!!

Cake Class One: Complete!

I did it!  I finished my first cake decorating class.  Even got the certificate to prove it...

We made another cake for our final class.  With this one I wanted to do the icing rose which is the most difficult thing we learned.  I think it came out ok.  I was going to do some little flowers here and there on the border at the bottom, but I was too tired once I got home.  They always say "less is more" so I left it like it was.  Let me know what you think!

Meeting Maw Maw Moss

Friday we drove to "Wonderful" Aunt Dawn's house for Addison to meet her Great Grandmother Moss for the first time.  Nana came with us, and we had a ball taking our quick little girls trip.  Addison warmed up to Maw Maw right away, and soon she was playing and giving her kisses.  We went out to lunch and spent the rest of the day  laughing, talking, and watching Addison be herself.  We hope to make this a regular thing! 

Addison thinks she's sneaking up the stairs, ssshhh don't tell anyone!

A mama and her girls

4 generations of women

We had the best time!

Addison wants to remind everyone to stop and smell the flowers, even if they are fake :)

My first cake!

So I went to night 2 of my cake decorating class last night.  Our homework was to make a cake and make some homemade buttercream icing and bring it in to decorate.  I had a blast!  So this may not be the fanciest cake you've ever seen, but I'm pretty proud of how it came out!

Can't wait for night 3!

In other news, Addison shows there's more than one way to wear a hat... 

And we figured at almost 2 years old it was about time to retire the highchair.  So I leave you with Addison in her very first booster seat (except for the one at Nana's house).

She thinks she a total big girl now :)

Around the House

We had a nice quiet weekend since Erik had dental surgery on Friday.  Addison decided to entertain herself by playing in our closets.

Her choice from daddy's closet (excuse the chocolate on her mouth):

Her choice from mama's closet:

And this is what happens when Daddy fixes her hair:

Still cute as can be!

She insisted on wearing that hat the rest of the weekend, and yes she has it on this morning.

Happy Monday!