Wordless Wednesday

Our latest obsession, Jake and the (Neverland) Pirates!  Well that and Mike the Knight.  But pirates for sure.  This was our attire of choice for going to town this weekend.

Lansing Lugnuts

Last week we decided we wanted to take Addison to a Lugnuts game and see how she did rather than tote her to Comerica Park, spend all the money involved in a Tigers game only to have her unable to sit still.  Plus the girl has been obsessed with "going to a baseball game" since we missed out on the Tigers game we had tickets for earlier this year due to crappy weather and a husband that didn't want to go to the game.

Anyhow Thursday night I got out of work a little early and we waited for Tony to get out so that we could head up to Lansing for the game.  Addison was pretty excited and did her usual non-stop talking for the entire car ride.  (seriously ride in a car with her, it's exhausing.)

When we got there Addison quickly discovered the splash pad/water fountain out front.  It was pretty much love at first site and she kept asking to go back to it while we were inside the stadium for the game.

We have to go again if nothing else to let her play in the fountain!

We found a good place to sit that wasn't occupied and allowed for a crazy toddler to run around. We grabbed food, more food, more food and fed our kid ridiculous amounts of sugar.  (seriously)

Their Mascot, the Big Lug, is a purple dinosaur.  Addison was in Dinosaur heaven...For real she would have went home with him.  She wanted to go to him wherever she spotted him throughout the game.

Addison definitely LOVED it, and for an almost 3 year old with more energy (and sugar) than most, she did great.  She got a kick out of being able to scream and yell "GO Lugnuts" she must have yelled it a hundred times.  Someone does need to work on her quite during the national anthem as a helicopter flew over nearby during the anthem she screamed "helicopter, helicopter, helicopter!" :)

 She got a game ball and a foam finger, an entire bag of cotton candy, a ball park hot dog, and some crackerjacks.  What else could she want in life?

Weekends make my world go round.

Thursday night:  Toddler Chaos.  We are huge into selective hearing right now.  Huge.  Momma is going to be huge into wine.   

she knows she's a nut.

yes, by all means, cleaning up your toys means banging your little toy pans together!

Friday morning I had an early morning eye doctor appointment, which if you wear contacts and super hate wearing glasses.  It's a great idea to schedule your eye exam BEFORE you run out of contacts.  That being said I am the worlds most awful contact lens wearer and my last 6 month supply lasted me two years....So this time I am taking a different approach.  I bought the entire years worth of contacts and I intend to make a legit attempt to wear them properly (or at least only make 30 day contacts go 60 days)  Oh I will never learn.
Anyhow, I decided instead of screwing around with finding a sitter for a 30 minute appointment I would just take Addison with me.  Hoping that early morning = well behaved wild child.  She did excellent!  Sat in the extra chair with a coloring book like a little angel the whole time.  Told the Dr. she made her momma look like a pirate when they covered one eye for me to read the chart.  :)  Apparently it was National Doughnut Day so they had some doughnuts in the lobby for people and Addison wasn't going to go without that chocolate doughnut that was calling her name!  (such an appropriate car snack...yuck)

rocking the four eyes

After the eye Dr's we got in some grocery shopping and got home right as Addison was falling asleep in her car seat and I had to keep waking her up all the way down our road around nap time.   I got her in the house, on the potty and into my bed for a nap where I watched her sleep all stalker like cause damn it she's so sweet when shes sleeping!

When she woke from her nap her Grandpa Paul had just gotten to our house to spend the weekend.  So we had lots of play time and a cookout and picnic in the driveway.

Saturday I had a early morning photo session and when I returned we got Addison ready for a day of helping her daddy and grandpa build her new swingset.  Of course if your working in the yard you need a crazy hair do, which is referred to as a "garden do".

Daddy & Grandpa hard at work:

While they worked and Addison assisted/played I ran to the greenhouse for some more new plants for my flowerbeds.  I ran out for another quick photo session & grabbed some steaks for dinner before returning home to get to work.  I Donned my old pre-pregnancy well loved favorite jeans turned to baggy, saggy, and ripped up, only suitable for yard work pants and got to work.

Don't mind the awesome fake crocs that I garden in, they don't track in mud like tennis shoes do!

On my quick trip up to the gas station to grab ice for the cooler I saw for the second time of the day that this trellis was sitting abandoned on the side of the road over the highway over pass.  My guess is it slid out of the back of some one's truck.  If you won't turn around to pick it up I guess I will!  Free trellis for Amber.  I had just planted this climbing rose last week so I was in the market for a trellis anyhow!

 Addison found her weed whacker and got to work helping me.

My mom stopped by to check out the progress on the swing set (Addison's grandparents all chipped in to help pay for the set as her early b-day gift this year).  She and my Step-Dad had also stopped in and picked up my wedding band and a necklace that I had dropped off to be repaired at their local jeweler who had misplaced them (SINCE NOVEMBER!!!).  Every time I would stop in he'd look for it, act confused that he couldn't find it and tell me he'd call me...so they went in to play bad guy and though it took him a while he found it in a random drawer.  Hello.  While the repairs only cost me $25 we won't be going back there again.  But look after over a year without it, my wedding band and I are reunited.  

Late in the day they had made enough progress on the swing set that Addison got to check it out, the girl was so geeked.  She showed it off to her uncle's and had a great time checking it all out.  Everything is done but the roof, which will make it even more awesome.

Sunday was spent cleaning the yard for me while Tony took a rest day in the house.  I weed wacked like crazy picked up more sticks, knocked down more stray trees in the hedge row, trimmed more lilac bushes and raked.  OH MAN can I feel it today!  Addison and I had a lunch picnic in her new swing set and while I worked she make me a "special ingredient cake".

All in all it was another successful beautiful weekend!