4 Years Old!

Addison Reese is 4 years old!!  Boy oh boy, I really don't know what to think about that.  I can't really say "i can't believe she's 4"  because she really acts like a well behaved 10 year old most of the time.  I can't say "time has flown" because it seems like she's been my little buddy forever.  All I can say really is that I am SO proud of her and I love her more than anything in this world.  Addison is the sweetest, funniest, most beautiful little girl inside & out.  I think all 3 of my blog readers have now spent a little time with Addison, so it's safe to say you all agree.  ha! 
 We celebrated Addison's birthday like we would with any other diva... pretty much all month! We started out with a multi-birthday celebration at the beach, Ashlee's wedding weekend!   Rhiannon's 19th birthday was June 5th, Grandaddy's 87th birthday was June 7th; Addison's 4th birthday is June 18th so we had cupcakes for the girls; an apple pie for grandaddy at our condo on Friday night.  It was great having so many of Addison's family together celebrate her birthday.

 










Thursday night of her birthday week she got her big present... a TRAMPOLINE!!!  Jamey had to work the weekend so we wanted to give her this early so he could watch her jump. AND because he put the whole thing together by himself that afternoon! She loves, loves, loves it! She already has a few tricks that she can do.

Friday I took cupcakes to daycare so she could celebrate with her friends & Ms. Nancy; then that night Addison went to dinner with Nina, Poppy & Nathan and then went for ice cream... yummy!  She came home, opened presents & went straight to bed so I know they had a good time.  She was so excited because grammy & sissy were coming Saturday morning to spend her birthday with her!!

We had a great "girls day"!  Originally we were going to take a trip to the zoo, but came up with a new plan. All of us loaded up and went to the theater for Addison's first movie experience!  When we FINALLY got there (I'm horrible with directions with or without GPS... i have to admit it here) we got tons of popcorn, drinks & candy and found out the movie was actually 3d!   Who knew how this was going to end up: Addison's first theater, loud, dark movie, and now glasses???   Well- it ended up SUPER.  Addison laughed & almost cried with sadness during the movie and made us laugh by calling "Po" everything but Po.  haha   I'm Tigeress by the way.  That was the best movie experience I've had, I'm pretty sure.  I think we all really enjoyed it.   Then we picked up lunch and headed home (At Addison's request)  So she could play with her new toys and eat all some of those awesome cupcakes made by Mrs. Samantha Ramsey (Thanks a million they were sooo good!). We have Addison Wonderland outside & My Little Pony wonderland inside... choices, choices.

I know that Addison has enjoyed her birthday 1/2 a month & I have too. Thanks to everyone who made it so special.  I guess it will be weird once reality sets in... my baby is now 4!  I am so excited for the many, many more to come. To watch you grow in every way and to love you all the days of my life.

I love you sweet baby girl!!!

Blog or not to blog...

that seems to be the question for me!  I liked blogging for a while & then it felt like it was just so repetitious.  I feel like I was just like  "blah blah blah, here are so pictures that you've already seen on FB, blah blah blah" Ha ha.   A lot has happened since my last post in August so I'll try to do a little catch up blog.  Maybe the break will help since the rest of the year should be really interesting!

September was pretty low key for us.  Jamey & I both are just working a lot and coming home to our little family.   Addison is loving school... she is so smart!  She LOVES to sing.  She sings about as much as she talks... which is A LOT! But we love it...so sing on sister! 

October has been our busiest and most fun month so far!  October 4th was Jamey & my 2nd year wedding anniversary!  It seems like we have been together forever and honestly it's just getting better every day!  Awwww  Happy Anniversary Honey!! Love you!

It was also my 28th birthday!  We went on a mini-vacay to the Smoky Mountains.  It was SUPER gorgeous! We stayed at the beautiful cabin owned by one of my manager's, the name of it is "Dream on a Stream" and it truly was. 

November was a great month as well... thanksgiving with our family.  We certainly have a lot to be thankful for.  

I started this blog in October & I'm finishing it in December... wow Abby!! haha   

All About Addison

Addison and I are sitting here talking, as we do every evening after work & school and I thought we would blog a little about Miss Priss.  I know people usually stop doing "look what I can do" updates after you start to consider the child an age in years instead of months... but I think it will be fun! :)  SO- here we go... a random blog about addison!

Addison is 3 years old and she weighs 33 pounds!  We know b/c we were recently at the dr. Addison stays pretty well now a days... which is good.  For a while I was starting to think she couldn't go a month without having a daycare cold or something... In addition to being perfectly petite and blissfully beautiful, Addison is SO SMART.  Now instead of hearing "the dog says woof woof" we hear "dog d d dog, dog starts with a d!"  WHAT?!!   Yes, she sounds out pretty much every other word.  It's amazing.  She can not only count to 20 in English...she can count to 10 in Spanish!   She actually speaks Spanish pretty fluently for a 3 year old.  It's really funny and makes me such a sucker for anything -when she asks and says "por favor?" I will gladly give all credit to Dora the Explorer for her entire Spanish vocabulary.  I was telling Jamey the other day that I thought it was awesome that "they" promote educational cartoons now to Addison's generation. Maybe that's the "fix" for the economy... bringing up a smart generation instead of "fighters" NOW-- i am NOT trying to get all crazy politic-y in the All About Addison blog- but think about it.. we grew up with cartoons that promoted such violence... not really anything educational at all.  I hope and pray that Addison's generation will be able to solve problems with their brains more than their fists.

OK Back to the important subject! :)

Coloing isn't really Addison's thing...she prefers to "marker" instead.  We have been very fortunate so far that her "markering" has only been on paper! She also loves her babies!! She is going to be such a great mommy one day... a princess mommy of course.  Dress up is always super fun... or barbies!  Afternoons in the car her request to me is usually "Mommy, can I text my name?"  She knows how to text Addison on my phone and loves it.  She can also use Jamey's phone really well...she goes through 3 or 4 screens to find the dice game on his phone!!  (she calls it "blocks" lol)   Addy is a GREAT singer... She catches on really quickly so she knows the words to a lot of different songs...even some of the ones I listen to!   Addison currently loves watching Dora the Explorer, Olivia and her new favorite Team Umizoomi!   TU is hilarious because Addison sings along and knows all of the little theme songs for the characters.  She told us that "she is Geo, Daddy is Bot and I am Millie.   (Google it if you dont have kids)  Anyway, sometimes she only refers to us by our Team Umizoomi names so we just play along and sing our respective theme song... it's great fun! 

We have had so much fun this summer with Addison.  She is such a little fish and loves the water. Speaking of water- she's in there now washing her hands after she used the potty.   WOW... it's was so hard to imagine that this day would ever get here, but now it's kind of sad because she really isn't a baby anymore!   She confirmed that the other day when telling me on the way to school  "Mommy, I'm a big kid now... I can swing really high and BABIES can not swing really high" I said yeah, but your still my baby! She said "no...mommy, I'm NOT a baby"   hummmm  What is it going to be like when she goes to school? EEK.    Addy constantly keeps us on our feet and laughing...  She is an absolutely amazing little girl... we are so blessed... Honestly there is no way in the world that we could have a better child! MAYBE she is a little bit spoiled.. .but I will paraphrase her daddy on that subject... we're just going to do what we do and let her husband deal with her one day.... LOOK OUT BOYS!!! :) 

The shirt says it all!!

This little princess folds clothes... in heels!! 

Such a big girl!! Ready for school!

So sweet....

Even when she pouts! :)

Love this laugh!

New Mommy Mobile!

Is it bad that I had to look at pictures before I started writing this blog... so I could remember what all we did since the last time wrote? HA!     I didn't forget about the car, for sure!   We ended up trading Max Monday for a Volvo S40.  I went back and forth about trading because I really like the Maxima but in the end, it really made more sense to trade.  I bought it from http://www.baughfordmercury.com/  Tommie has sold me every car that I've bought execpt for one.. so I'm glad they bought a dealership in Clanton.  And yes... if you were wondering, the car already has a name. :)     Addison named it "glowy" Anyway...  Addison and I have had some interesting times already in Glowy.   Sister has had the opportunity to ride with us... strapped in her carseat OF COURSE!

Update: It's been so long since I started this draft that Addison has renamed the car!  Ruby is now the name.  i guess this car is Max's sister?

Hopkins' family home videos

Check out this HILARIOUS little girl!   Gosh, I love her so! :)

Definitely a musican's child... Almost Famous??

Th song (Airplanes) came on the radio today while we were in the car and I hear her singing along with this part, so I had to film it! This is the funniest thing. Not to mention, additonal proof that she is ALWAYS listening...

snazzy, jazzy new page

Ok it's really not all that jazzy! And it's pretty off centered but I love the pink and LOVE LOVE LOVE that picture.  It's from Sherry's wedding.  The amazing photographers were the Robinson's with http://www.rstudioanddesign.com/       The other pictures are just as great...I have no clue how Sherry picked!    Anyway, maybe I will soon figure out how to center the banner... or maybe not.   I like living a little to the left anyway! :)

Does it get any sweeter than this??

Addison endured a long day of car wheeling and dealing with mommy today (more on that later) just because I promised her that we would go see Lucy afterwards.   As we were leaving she HAD to buckle sister in her car seat of course, and after she was in Addy says "oh no sister, dont cry!"  I asked what was wrong with sister and she told me that sister didn't want to go see Max!  (Max is the maxima.. haha.. Lynard is daddy's truck.. crazy I know)  I left the Maxima at the dealership while I test drove our new car and we were going back to finalize paperwork today.  Well to make sister stop crying Addison started singing Twinkle Twinkle.  I can't believe it but I actually had time to grab my camera and catch it!  She just started talking and it got better and better!

p.s. NO I am not driving and filming... we were in the driveway  :)