OCD or Practice makes perfect?

Well our little artist has been at it again. She has been working so diligently on her smiley faces. She has been using the PBOP note pads and each piece of paper is the SAME smiley face. She could do it for hours upon hours, if we supplied the paper. I laid out the smiley faces that she did in about 10 minutes and with one partially used notepad. We decided to stop after this and take it up at another time. While drawing these faces, if she does not draw it exactly how she is picturing it...oo she gets upset. She started drawing one and made a dot next to the mouth before drawing it and I could see the anxiety welling up in her face, so I told her it was a freckle and the faces then had an addition of a freckle for the rest of the notepad. Is it OCD? I am not sure..I know I have some OCD issues myself, I hope she didn't get those traits. I am going to say she is just striving for the perfect face!

Much Love,
The Reynolds

Captain America

So Thomas has been really wanting to get Addison a Captain America shirt, but have not really wanted to spend alot of money. Well I found this great idea on one of my craft blogs to do a DIY Captain America shirt. I used Saran Wrap to paint the shirts to make it look worn. It was super easy and I think Daddy is happy with it. We made one for Addison and Lily! I hope to make one here in the next couple of weeks for Baby Peanut!

Much Love,
The Reynolds

Critterfest

On Sunday we took Addison to the Science Spectrum for their annual, Critterfest. This is a great event for the kids in Lubbock to look and touch animals. Since we do not have a zoo here in town or anything close to it, it is a very big deal! Addison was able see her friend the camel that was at the library at the beginning of the summer. They had a gator show and a tiger show, but we only saw the gator show because the tiger show was out of control with people. She was able to see different reptiles and touched 2 snakes (she described them as "slimy") She petted some giant rabbits and a hamster, they had many different dogs, petting zoo animals, and her best event was the horse back riding. It was only like a 2 minute ride, but she LOVED it! She kept saying YEE-HAW! We had a great Sunday afternoon and we think that Addison had a great time!

There are more pics of the event on Facebook!

Much Love,
The Reynolds

The Sandbox

We have finally added sand to the bottom of Addison's swing set to make her own little sand box.  We have been taking her little sand tote to the park with us, and she would love to dig in my garden, so I think it was definitely time to get her own sand to play in.

Much Love,
The Reynolds

PS. Please ignore Addison's saggy drawers!! We are in the middle of sizes right now and we often have pants falling off or baby buttcrack! LOL.

SHARK!!

I had to share the drawing that Addison did on her own one day while was getting lunch ready for us. She called me over and told me that she had drawn a shark and that I needed to do the eyes and the mouth. Therefore, the only part that is mommy-drawn on this are the eyes and the teeth (which doesn't like an adult drew it more a toddler drawn face), everything else is her. You can see the head, the scales/fins, and the tale. I was so very impressed with my little artist!

Much Love,
The Reynolds

Choo Choo Soul

For reading/listening to 25 books in the library summer reading program, Addison received a bag of goodies that were train themed. Her favorite prize was a conductor's hat. Last week while watching the disney channel, a small clip in between regular shows in Choo Choo Soul. It is a little music video and it is train themed. Addison saw that it was on and ran and got her hat and was ready to dance with her friends on the tv. She was having such a fun time, my little dancing girl. Sorry for the crazy hair under that hat. We are having a little bit of "in between" curly hair at the moment!

Much Love,
The Reynolds....CHOO CHOO!!

Happy Father's Day!

We had a pretty low key Father's Day! We gave daddy his gifts a couple days before because we were very excited about it. Daddy got a Addison painted popcorn bowl! She absolutely loved painting this bowl! We will doing more fun activities in coming years! Daddy also got a new Wii game to play and enjoy. On Father's day we went and fed the ducks at the park, did some morning play time under our tree in the front yard, watched a movie while Addy was taking a nap, and Thomas did some Wii playing. Oh yea...Addison and Daddy did some snuggling in the her itty bitty bed.
Happy Father's Day Thomas! I love you so much!

Much Love,
The Reynolds