Adeline and Tag

Once again, nothing too exciting for us. Abe didn't have to go to school today since it was Veteran's Day, so that was nice to have the day together. It's freezing cold here now, and I'm sure in the next week we will probably have snow! That will be a change for us after living in Cali for three years. One GREAT thing about here is that gas is only $1.89/gal right now. It's so nice!!

Adeline has been as cute as ever lately. She seems older to me every day. She is learning a new word every day, which is kind of fun. As I was taking a video of her in the bath tonight (you can see below), I asked her to say cheese and she said "cheese". I didn't even know she could say it. In the past several days her favorite word is "NO!" Unfortunately she says it all the time. To Chloe, to me & to Abe. I told Chloe to get off the couch tonight, pointed at her and sad no. Afterwards Adeline turned to Chloe, pointed her finger at her and said "NO!" What a little mimic. Here are some cute pictures of her:



Here are a couple cute videos in the last couple of days.....
Adeline in the bathtub

Adeline feeding Chloe dog food

Adeline trying to put her diaper on her doll


Karen tagged me forever ago, and it has taken me awhile to do it. Sorry Karen. The tag was 8 things….but I changed it to 5 things, because 5 will already be hard enough.

5 Favorite TV Shows:
Lost
Intervention
Extreme Makeover
Anything on HGTV
The Office

5 Things I Did Yesterday:
Went to the store
Played with Adeline
Designed baby announcements
Made Calzones for dinner
Had our friends over for our new ritual: Dinner & game night!

5 Things I Look Forward To:
Christmas
Going home for the holidays and seeing family
Our granite counter tops
Getting Adeline up in the morning
Getting our basement finished

5 Favorite Restaurants:
Panera Bread
PF Chang
Olive Garden
Cheesecake Factory
Claim Jumper

5 Things On My Wish List:
Decorations for our house—it’s still very plain
New clothes
New shoes
King size bed would be nice
????

Cats and Dogs

Nothing has been too exciting with us the past week. Abe is just working hard at school everyday and Adeline and I are finding things to fill our days. Adeline's new thing is grabbing our finger and saying "go"! Then she directs us to where she wants to go. 99% of the time, that is to the door to go outside. That girl would live outside if she could. Since we have had 60-70 degree weather, we have spent a lot of time outside. The weather is starting to turn though :(

Everyday Adeline takes me to our neighbors house to see their cat and bird. Luckily our neighbors are wonderful and love the company. I can't believe how much Adeline loves cats. She is so gentle with them and would love one of her own.... but the problem is that we don't like cats as much as her!

Of course Adeline loves Chloe....they are best friends

Beggar's Night & Halloween

Last night we celebrated Beggar's Night, which is the same thing as Trick-or Treating. I have always known to trick or treat on Halloween, so this was new for us. I guess that every year it is a different day and sometimes it falls on Halloween. Why? Not sure. So last night we took Adeline Trick or Treating. I wasn't sure if she was going to like it, because she seems to get shy around people she doesn't know. I was wrong though. She loved it! She even helped to tap on the doors and gladly held out her pumpkin for them to put candy in.... and she KNEW she was getting candy. Afterwards, she would even say "tank tu" to them. Our neighbors that love Adeline so much even got her a little special treat bag filled with treats. I was very pleased with how the night went. Our neighborhood was packed full of little kids walking around and a lot of the neighbors were camped right outside of their doors passing out candy. Here are a couple pictures of last night.




When we got home from Trick or Treating, Adeline went through her huge stash of candy and picked out all the suckers and was trying to eat all of them. I ended up giving her one and she ate it in about 2 minutes. She practically begged me for another one, so I gave in for a second sucker. Halloween is only once a year, right? By the way, I have almost finished off her stash of candy :)


This morning for Halloween, Adeline and I went to the mall and met Alexis and Laura (& their kids) to go to a little Halloween party. It was pretty lame, so we just ended up letting the kids play in the play area in the mall and then went to the pet store. Tonight, Abe, Adeline and I went to a Halloween party at our neighbors house. We got invited late last night, so did not have costumes. I just ended up being a cat and made pretty lame cat ears and Abe wrapped himself up in cling wrap and was "dressed" up as leftovers. He won't let me post a picture, so you can just use your imagination. Let's just say that both our costumes were pretty lame! Here is a picture of Adeline and I tonight-- two cats.

Baby Emerson

I was able to fly out to California for a pretty last minute trip to spend time with my family and see Sierra's new baby! Sierra was due the day after I got there, but day after day went by and I thought I was going to miss it! Finally 5 days late, baby Emerson Thomas Campbell arrived! He is so darling and I am so happy I was able to be there.
Here are some pictures of baby Emerson:



Adeline and Jojo were running around the hospital room with these blown up gloves and were loving it. It was pretty funny. Here is Grandpa Smart with his 3 little grand-babies.

It was SO fun seeing Adeline and Johanna play and interact together. They held hands in the car, played together, fought over toys, Jojo taught Adeline how to jump, etc.... it was the best. I think Adeline may be missing her.

Cute little Jojo

Adeline




My friend Tara was in the area and stopped by so we could see each other. Adeline and Mikey played so well together. It was so much fun seeing them, especially since the last time was when Adeline was born!


And.... a video of the little girlies. Adeline's dance moves got pretty good while we were in Cali :)

There are so many friends that I would have loved to see in Cali, but there was just not very much time, as I was with my family the whole time. So, sorry to those of you that I did not contact when I was there!

Adeline had a weight check today... she weighed in at a whooping 17 lbs 13 ounces, which is in the 1st percentile. Her height was just above 30 inches, which is the 67th percentile. So she is just really skinny!!

What a good week

This week has been a pretty good week. I can't complain. Exactly one week ago, we went to the Dayton Farmers Market, which was a lot of fun. They gave Adeline a free pumpkin and a clown made her a little doggy balloon that she loved. The best part about it though was that there was live music and yummy food. Adeline LOVED dancing to the music. Heres a funny video of Adeline spitting hot chocolate everywhere and dancing--


Another great part about this week is that we finally have contact with a guy that is supposed to instal granite in our kitchen and practically had fallen off the face of the earth with our money. Yea-- he was trying to scam us....that is until I went to the police department and the cop called this guy and did a little threatening. It is starting to look like it is going to turn out now. We will let you know what happens :)

On Thursday I watched my friends baby Sol and he is only 10 days younger than Adeline. It was fun seeing what it would be like to have twins! Here are a couple pictures from them at the park.


Last night we went to the Beavercreek High School football game. Do we know anyone that plays?? No. Abe just loved his football. It was a fun night though and Adeline actually did pretty well and enjoyed it. Here are Abe and Adeline walking back to the car.

Another thing that was great about this week is that gas is only $2.50....that means a $1.50 drop in the last couple weeks. We were so excited to see that it only took $35 to fill up my car today

Last but not least, Adeline was in the Church news today! She is so adorable. If you would like to see it, go here

My enormous christmas stocking.

So I knitted a Christmas stocking for Adeline, and then I eventually want to knit one for Abe, me and our other kids to come. I actually started it in California last year, and never finished it. Thanks to Alexis, she helped me figure out how to start on the heal and finish the sock. We have been trying to get together every week and let the girls run around and play, or fight while we knit. It has been pretty fun. Anyway, I finished Adeline's stocking, BUT, it is ENORMOUS. If I hold it up next to her, they are the same size. I think she could fit in it. So I am a little disappointed that it looks like it belongs to a giant. As I was kind of comlaining to Abe about it last night, he tried to make me feel better and said, "It looks good. You are like the only person I know that can do this!" Thanks Abe :) Even though I'm sure LOTS of people could do it. My next ones I will try to make smaller. Here is the final product.




This morning we walked up the street to the park so Adeline could swing and go down the slides. Chloe met a big Boxer friend and they ran around together. I think Chloe thinks she is big sometimes. The owner of the Boxer couldn't believe how fast Chloe ran. So we came home, Adeline ate lunch, we Skyped Nana and Grandpa Smart and then I went upstairs to put Adeline to bed. When I came back downstairs, this is what I found.....Chloe had put herself to bed on the couch (she is not allowed) AND snuggled up to the blanket. She is so tired she is falling asleep sitting up.


Oh, and of course a picture of Adeline....what a cute little monkey

videos

My mom called me this morning and notified me that my vidoes have not been working. So I am re-posting the last two videos that I posted on my blog. Hopefully these work!

Here is Adeline last night being very hyper....


This was Adeline last week just being silly...