So for some reason Addy decided today that she needed to throw me a surprise Bday party - just in case i miss mine! :) So she got herself all fancied up, found and put out decorations, and yes has convinced her cohort to assist her in baking a cake. There is actually a cake in the oven! WOW... that girl is amazing. This is how she appeared in my office to tell me the news (All by herself at 4, such the party planner already)

 

So I’m reading her this book last night about a snow flake that doesn’t know what makes her special, all these other snowflakes are unique and special, but Lucy just doesn’t know what makers her special. So she’s all depressed when she finally lands on the ground, then the sun comes up and she starts to sparkle and glisten and gets all excited because that’s what makes her special – she sparkles and glistens, yay. So the book ends with: God makes everyone unique and special.

I close the book and see Addy has a “not-buying-it” look on her face – she looks at me and says: “What makes her so special if she’s just gonna melt?”

Addy: "Mom! Monkey scratched me! What does that mean in puppy language?" (nothing, she didn't mean to)... "Yes it does! Tell me! Tell me what it means in puppy language!"

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Addy at breakfast: "Daddy, ya know you're really wrong about something. (what?) Oxy Clean really does get the tough stains out. Even on color!"

(this kid is sooo wooed by commercials)

I don't think Addy has ever made us laugh so hard as last night. About 11pm she woke up crying and mumbling a whole lot of panicked words that we could not understand. I knew she was talking in her sleep, but I ran upstairs to address her sound of panic before she ended up running out of bed in her sleep. So I go in just in time to see her glazed over eyes grab her stuffed dinosaur and begin to guzzle from it's horn, slowly tipping it further back as if it were a sippy cup. I stood there speechless and fascinated and trying so hard not to laugh but also not feeling the need to help a girl out just yet :) ...wondering how long it would take until she realized she was not actually drinking, and just hoping B would walk in in time to witness this hysterical event. He did. She attempted the horn for much longer than I thought she would, and then realized it's dryness and threw the animal. I quickly handed her her drink before she could get frustrated enough to wake up. That seemed to work and she laid back down. We walked out trying so hard not to wake her with our laughter, and then we just kept remembering it for the next hour and would randomly start laughing again. This recap just does not do it justice, it was freaking hilarious..

Addy was having a conversation with Oma and Opa and Brandon cut in and said something (I can't even remember what this was about), and Addy says, "Sometimes he's just a pain", and brushed him off...