addie turns 2!

it was a fun day, decking the house in sesame street-only to find she wanted to wear her 'fancy nancy tutu dress'

family and friends arrived and miss addie fell in love with her new 'baby alive' and her big bin of 'snap and style' dolls, her little people wheelies and cupcakes to color...

and ended the night in her mermaid costume watching "the little mermaid" with mama and aunt stacy.

i would say she was a very happy and lucky birthday girl.

addie and the fishies

so miss addie jane has a growing obsession with fish-and we her parents are glad to oblige...
for her birthday we decided to take her to the best viewing place for fish of all kinds in the city-NEWPORT AQUARIUM...
we made it in time to see the penguin parade, and then she just ran from "bubbles" to "bubbles" and was so excited at every new window we took to...her eyes were HUGE the whole time and she even had the guts to touch the ones they let you.
it is so much fun watching her discover anything new these days...

and our adventure lasted all the way until lunchtime so of course daddy had to share his enormous shake with the very well-behaved birthday girl.

my best girl.

you fell asleep on my shoulder tonight..and i have been a mom long enough to know that i should get you into bed as soon as possible. but i couldn't help sitting there holding onto you as long as possible. you have gone so fast from baby to little woman. and this week you turn a whole 2 years old.
I went walking with you tonight around the neighborhood...you just kept talking about all that you saw, and all that we were doing "addie is walking, mama is walking, addie and mama are walking together" "that tree is green" "i have flowers on my coat" "my pants have stripes" "mama do you see the airplane"
"mama i wub you".

somebody pinch me please. what did i do to deserve you?