Almost 18-Month Update

So, it's been forever again and this will be relatively short any sweet. I'm sorry to my blog followers that I haven't done a better job keeping this blog updated. I just hope you understand the chaos that is having a nearly 18-month old child, working full time, and working on our new house. I took a moment tonight to download over 100 pictures off our camera and upload them to our Picasa site as well, so make sure to check out the pictures of Addison from 15-18 months. She's super cute and growing every day. I'm finding it difficult the older she gets actually getting her to look at the camera and smile, so you'll notice there aren't many of these types of pictures anymore :)

Addison: 15 - 18 Months

As for a high-level Addison update, she's been asthma attack free since last fall, which is awesome! However, now she seems to get an ear infection every single time she gets a cold...which is pretty often. With every ear infection comes a ridiculously high fever (the highest has been 103.7), so she tends to scare her mom and dad a bit. We're hoping she won't have to get tubes put in, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. Some other things to highlight are:

• She's talking A LOT now. She repeats anything you say and anything you ask her to say, so we have to watch our mouths a lot more than we ever have.
• She's starting to put sentences together like "Eva up high" (when Eva was up on the top of the couch one night) and "Where daddy go?" We're so proud of her and so ecstatic that she's picking up her language speaking skills so quickly.
• She has all of her teeth in from 1st molar to 1st molar on top and bottom. I'm just hoping we're done cutting teeth for a while.
• She counts from 1 to 5 and tries to do her fingers at the same time. She's not very good at the finger thing, but she absolutely loves to count.
• She says her ABC's from A to E, sometimes skipping E entirely and going right to F.
• She sings "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and makes up the words as she goes. She loves to sing, so she finds ever opportunity to make up songs.
• She tries to sing along to popular songs on the radio like "Hey Soul Sister", "I Got a Feeling" and "Down". Any time any of these songs come on the radio or my iPod, she has her specific parts that she likes to sing. For example, if I sing "I got a feeling", she follows it up with "Whoo hoo". It's so hilarious and so cute!
• She tells us when she poops, which makes me hopeful that when we potty train her that it will go well.
• She asks for her "medicine" at night when we need to nebulize her with her Pulmicort. This is our sign that she's tired and wants to go to bed.
• She pulls pictures off of shelves and begins naming the people in them. She especially likes to point out her 3 cousins.
• She greets people by name (if she knows them) when they walk in the door.
• She introduces her mommy and daddy to everyone she sees in public, whether she knows them or not. She also likes to say hi to all strangers she sees. Going to the grocery store is amusing with all the people she MUST say hi to.

More to come. She turns 18 months next week and should have some new pictures for us to share with you. I'm sure I'm forgetting something she's doing now that she wasn't the last time I posted. It's just been so long that I can't remember it all. We're proud of our pumpkin and can't wait to share all of her milestones and updates with you in the future!