Yes, I officially suck. I have not updated my blog in about 7 months. I'm not sure why, I think I just got tired of posting for a while and needed to take a break. I'll try to be back a little more regularly, but we'll see what happens...as you know the next few months might be kind of crazy and busy!
So, our past few months in a nutshell...Grandma and Grandpa S. came out in May and we had a great time visiting with them. This time no outlet shopping in the States, but we stayed local and went to the zoo, museum...you know, injecting a bit of culture into Addison!
In the summertime we took Addison on her first flight into the States - we went to San Francisco, Sonoma Valley, and Fresno to visit Great Grandma, plus a bunch of other relatives that Addison and Dan had not yet met. It was a HOT week, but fun and full of activities...train rides, visiting Golden Gate, Pier 39, swimming, and trying to stay cool! The week went by much too fast.
This fall has been busy prepping for winter, filling up our freezer and a couple of reno projects. Dan and his dad re-did our guest bedroom downstairs - previously used only for storage purposes! The past few months they (with help of some other friends) have been working on our rec room downstairs - receiving a much needed facelift. The plan is to convert it into a toyroom for our expanding family and collection of toys. We're nearing the end - hopefully by the end of this month everything will be completed, then Dan can get working on another time-sensitive project - storage in our baby room.... I'm assuming that everyone who actually reads this knows from FB that we are expecting a baby boy in January, but if you didn't know yet, well, SURPRISE!!
The big things are done in the room, though I'm constantly cleaning a trail of burp clothes and mountain of baby blankets courtesy of a "big sister" who likes to play in the baby's room more than anyone elses! Addie has nicknamed her brother "Little Daddy", which has been a name that somehow has grown on us. Poor kid will be nicknamed that all his life. We do (I think) have a real name picked out, with a fair bit of input from aforementioned big sister. You'll have to wait until January to find out though!
Addie's looking forward to being a big sister, though she initially had expressly ordered a baby sister. When we told her we were having a baby, she also claimed to have a baby in her tummy. When we told her that our baby was a boy, she insisted that hers was a girl, named Paddison. Still to this day, she will tell us all about her baby kicking, doing somersaults, and cooking in her tummy house. We do have a game plan so that she is not confused and in need of serious therapy come January when no baby sister appears out of her tummy. We've got a Cabbage Patch Kid (girl, of course) that she will get when mom and dad have to go have the real baby - I think that this will suffice for her.
