January...it is finally Winter in Minnesota!

Exhausted after a morning at the children's museum in St. Paul!
celebrating New Years Eve! party girl!
wow! Santa is my size!
Playing with the blocks at the Children's Museum!
sleigh ride with my friends!
bath time...nice!

The blog has been pretty much neglected the last couple of weeks due to us trying to enjoy the amazing weather! Really!!! Just last week I spent two afternoons in the park with Addison due to the highs being in the low 50s! Some of the golf courses in the city even opened for free golf to celebrate the unseasonably beautiful, record-setting weather!

Needless to say.......the temperature has finally dropped......after all we knew it couldn't last forever! The last couple days and heading in to this coming week, we will need to start spending a little more time indoors. The other day I spent part of my coffee time in the morning preparing a list of all of the "toddler activities" to do in the Twin Cities! I want to make sure we take full advantage this year and next! :-)

We have been really getting a kick out of all of Addison's new words and gestures lately!! :-) She is excited about "hi!" and "bye!" so much that anytime we see ANYONE, ANYWHERE, she chooses once of these to greet them, along with a big wave and smile! Addie's daycare is pleased because she now waves bye-bye to all of the children as they leave vs. crying and wanting to exit with them. :-) She now "says" I love you by throwing kisses when she hears these three words...quite precious! We are amazed at her language development and have so much fun hearing her repeat things that we say! :-)

Addie is obsessed with her baby doll now! She has been carrying her baby EVERYWHERE, changing her clothes, pushing her in the doll pram up and down the hallway, cuddling with her, kissing her and even trying to feed her bottles and sippy cups. I have greatly enjoyed watching her be a "mommy" to her little one-so cute!

Some of the highlights of the last couple of weeks in addition to making the most of the beautiful weather with time at the playground and Wally walks include:

-a trip to the children's museum with daddy and the Voss family

-a night with Annie babysitting! (mommy and daddy had a nice dinner and movie night!)

-a playdate at Levi's house

-more music class at McPhail!

Noah and I are busy making plans for taking a trip in February for a few days....will be our first time away from Addie for more than a night.....more to come............