Well we hit a dreaded milestone: addy wants to go out to play. all.the.time. She does not want her brothers to go out without her. She screams. She cries. She makes everyone feel so guilty. And once she is out, there is no getting her back in. At least I get some pictures out of it….

Today we played outside until I lost Addy. I knew which direction she headed so I didn’t worry too much - it was a dead end. But still, she never came back. So off I went into the garage to find her except the garage is clean and there is no place to hide.

Except one:

If there is one thing worse than letting the baby outside it is letting the baby get into the bike trailer. If there is no accompanying bike ride, there will be a meltdown. I promise.

So off we went to the park.

Noah did what he does best…..the Heimlich. Just kidding. The “choochoo train” down the slide. He’s a good big bro:

Addy was proud of her big girl sliding skills. She’s actually pretty apprehensive about the big slides but the park by our house has smaller slides and she felt independent enough to scream “STOP” at me every single time she started to climb up the play structure, in case I was thinking about coming up with her.

I love this picture because Addy looks like such a tiny baby in it still:

Addy is a big fan of the swings. Until she’s not. She can be done so fast, it will make your head spin. But she had fun

If you are into seeing awful painful teething, like I am (not), you can click on the picture above and see Addison’s lower left canine painfully jutting through her sore gum but the other one is nowhere in sight. Will we ever see the end to teething pain?

Addy developed some odd obsession with climbing trees. We need to visit Lucy for some REAL tree climbing. I have no idea where or how she has determined that trees are for climbing but she will frequently approach a tree for climbing.

Even Noah caught the climbing bug:

But finally they just worked together:

Noah is such a good brother. He wanted to go for a hike through the woods and Addy obliged.

Right up until she found this bush full of berries. She had to pull every single one off, one by one, and ask “I eat it?”

This is Addy’s “I ate a poison berry” face:

Kidding. I didn’t let her eat them, silly.

We decided to mosey over to the lake hoping to see some ducks. Addy LOVES ducks. But apparently she HATES the lake. She was terrified of going anywhere near it. And there were no ducks in sight. But suddenly……her biggest brothers showed up! What a surprise! Dalton got her to go near the water as long as he wouldn’t let her go:

And then….oh my gosh….the ducks appeared out of nowhere! The day was saved!!!

This is Mr. People Beggar:

He would like to be fed and gives us this coy look:

When that doesn’t work, he opens his mouth wide, waiting for us to stuff crackers inside:

Mr. People Beggar is a regal beggar:

He brought a buddy, Mr. Bottom Feeder:

He wasn’t into the whole begging scene. He was just along for the ride. There was a deal where he provided the muscle in exchange for a hefty cracker kickback. But fish were more his style:

Finally Noah could not bear it anymore and offered Mr. People Beggar the closest thing around: a charcoal briquette. But apparently Mr People Beggar has the audacity to be a picky beggar.

Buh-bye Mr. People Beggar. Next time we will bring crackers, even if the authorities will have our hides:

At this point poor Addy was shivering and her nose was red. It is COLD here today and Mama did not pack a sweater (or a drink or anything else including the travel potty which -yay - we had our first successful pee-on-the-tree incident, so to speak. I’ve only ever done this with boys so I have been dreading this incident for a year!!)

So we had to go home. But we had fun at the park. We might do it again tomorrow when it is actually warm out and we bring treats for ducks.

A bonus picture:

This here is what you might call a Midwestern Bird Feeder. In the Midwest, the squirrels don’t actually fit through - they are too big! Where can I get a Southern birth feeder? Or would that be what you call “roadkill”??!?

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