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Whenever we turn on the vacuum, Addison feels some primal urge to run around and around and around our downstairs (usually yelling all the while). I discovered today that the electric mixer works too.

Saturday morning we got about two inches of snow in two hours. After Add's nap we spent about 20 minutes searching for and donning snow gear to go play outside. We ended up playing for about three minutes at which point Addison's mittens came off and his hands turned bright red. But it was fun, if cold, while it lasted.

I like this one because it showcases the winning smile as well as the thunder thighs. He did this on his own. Can you name the Primary song?

A few days ago I was struck with a revelation as I nibbled on an Oreo Cakester (I'd never heard of them either - thank you Halloween). To quote the sharks from Finding Nemo, I'm a "mindless eating machine." I realized that I was sitting on my duff eating cream-filled chocolate cake that I didn't even like, just because it was there. I'm proud to say that upon realizing this, I gave the rest to Nate. November begins the most stressful portion of the year - the time when I get spacey. It seems that no matter what I'm doing, my head is somewhere else. My hands are in the middle of a stinky diaper and my head is in the dryer with the towels I still haven't folded, and on the computer searching frantically for choir music for our Christmas program, and down the street visiting teaching, and at the store trying to no avail to find the blasted can of pumpkin I forgot to buy but have to have because I volunteered to bake something for one of the 10 ward activi...

This was our first "real" Halloween where Addison was big enough to care. We did all the important stuff - frosted orange sugar cookies, carved pumpkins, and of course, trick-or-treated. Addison was a good sport during the festivities. He put away about half a bag of candy corns, cried when he touched the gunk inside the pumpkin, and said "ticky-teet" cutely enough to score us a year's supply of Milk Duds and Dum-Dums. We spent Halloween weekend in St. George with Nate's fam, because our newest little niece was being blessed. We were visited by various tummy bugs, including one that made Addison throw up "five gallons" (according to Nate) all over the couch in the middle of the night. But they were short-lived and we ended up having a really fun time. Addison was an awesome duck, and some friends of ours lent us a little Tootsie Roll costume for Bryn. Abbey was dying to put eyeliner on Nate, and he dutifully endured it. I'm not exactly sure wh...