I've done this...

I saw this on my sister-in-law's blog and thought it would be fun. You cut and paste it, and bold what you've done.

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band (Jr High band, Elementary School)
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo (long ago, grade 5, never gonna happen again - so don't ask!)
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community (Old Order - does it count?)
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted (chalk drawing on the San Fransisco Pier)
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China (does the restaurant count?)
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle (not a speeding one, but just a regular motorcycle ride)
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper (Grade 6 Spelling bee runner-up for Langley)
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous - or infamous? Pavel Bure, and I spilled his coffee...but I digress
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a lawsuit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee

Rudolph the Red-Nosed....GOAT??

We put up our decorations last weekend (I wish I had my camera to take a pic, but Dan needed it for work today), while Addison was sleeping. Usually we wait until a little bit later, but just seeing the excitement everytime we went to the store and Addison saw a Santa or snowman or a Chrithmith tree...we caved and put it up early. She woke up from her nap when we were about halfway through and as she came down the stairs she was asking,
"what's that?"
(garland)

"what's thaaaat?"
(Stockings)

"what's Thaaaat?"
(Christms Village)

"KRITHMITH TREEEEE!!!!"
Yeah, she knew that one pretty well! She helped us finish decorating the tree and was pulling out decorations from a box, telling us what they were as she handed them over:

"House"
"Stocking"
"Bell"
"Star"
"Goat"

wait a second..goat? Dan and I turn and look at her, and she's holding Rudolph who, to an unknowing toddler, slightly does resemble a goat!

She also helped add to our Christmas Village set this year...we had a Library, a Church and a FireHall...now our village is populated by Little People, complete with furnishings - outside the library, you can see a lovely pastel pink potty, there's a purple car riding through the village, and a lovely dining room set.

Addison's been a funny one this fall. She loves to play "Where's Addison." This doesn't mean that she hides and we find her. On the contrary, she thinks she has discovered how to make herself INVISIBLE. Oh yes, she closes her eyes and says, "Where's Addison?" Then she opens her eye ever so slowly and giggles when we say, "THERE SHE IS!" And we play this game over and over and over and over.....

October

Halloween came and went and it was so exciting this year. Last year it was fun to take her out, even though she was really too young to get anything out of it. This year however, she had a ton of fun! She loved going house to house, especially if a house had a pumpkin; she really didn't care too much about the whole candy thing!

"Mummy! Big Pumpkin! Sad Pumpkin!"

next house:

"NO pumpkin...mummy, wheresthepumpkin?? "


In the almost-week since halloween, about 20 times a day, completely out of the blue Addison will say, "Skelton on DOOR!" or "Bones on FLOOR!" Ahhh, the things that she remembers!


Her favorite word this fall is "Where"...wheresthedoor, wheresdaddy, wherestheball and especially "Wheresthemoon?" - she's all about the moon, asking where it is during the day and evening, whether it is out or not. She LOVES the moon! Her sentences are getting longer and longer - most often she repeats what we've read in a book, so the past couple weeks she'll toddle around saying, "Moonfalldownonenight - catchit!!" (From "When Moon Fell Down".

She can now "sing" all the words to Twinkle twinkle and Jesus Loves me. She can also do most of the ABC song, but she makes up a few of the letters in between. She also loves the "Rosie" song (as she calls it) but doesn't sing it...just loves to "all fall down!"


She's taken a real shine to YouTube as well! We found some Wiggles videos on there and she just loves them (Jeff is her favorite!)...and on youtube there's links to other related videos and somehow we found some Mickey Mouse Clubhouse clips. Now Addison is completely obsessed with the Clubhouse - between the Hot Dog song and anything Goofy, it is all we hear about these days!