Little Addelyn is so sweet ... and she clearly gets her sweetness from her parents! I had a blast with these great people last week. They were troopers ... they climbed up on big tree stumps when I asked them to, walked through pathways that were just covered in yucky ants (that was by accident) and got drenched in bubble machine mixture just a few times when we carried Addy's favorite toy around the park with us.
Addy made me work a little harder for a smile this time than the last time I took her pictures. She's very contemplative and her pretty eyes just seem to have so much knowledge behind them already. She says, "Thank you," when she takes something from you and also did an awesome job pointing out the birds and saying, "Bird!" when we saw them.
Addy did SO WELL at listening to her parents. I am thrilled with how many of these pictures have all three members of the family looking at my camera. So often with toddlers, it's tricky to get them to look at me with enough time to capture the right moment. Her mom would just say, "Look at Mandy! Look at Mandy!" over and over again each time we were posing for pictures and Addy always listened to her and obeyed. Some of the time, it was, "Look at Mandy and you can get a treat!" and she for SURE listened to those requests and was rewarded with Cheerios. :) Even without the Cheerios though, Addy was a great listener. I was impressed.
Another few reasons I say this Sinclair family is sweet? Well, for one, they didn't laugh (long) when I slid and fell dramatically on my bum after jumping off of the huge tree stump I was standing on when I took this picture below. I still don't know how I didn't blow out my knee, given the way I landed. I guess that's what you get when you wear cheap Old Navy flip-flops and try to jump from a high distance down to slightly soggy grass. I'm sure I looked ever so graceful -- do you think the Sinclairs would believe me if I told them I was a ballet dancer for 15 years? :)
They also stayed with me for nearly 30 minutes and helped me look for my sunglasses when I realized I'd lost them somewhere along the way (we never found them, but I went to Target the next day and picked up the exact same pair I'd lost!). They SO didn't need to do that, but I'm grateful that there are such kind people still out there in the world these days. Little Addy needed to get home to bed but they didn't hesitate to unbuckle her from the car and come back out to the park to help me search. It was so kind.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this bubble picture! Addy had the coolest bubble machine. She loved turning it on and off (and on and off and on and off) by pressing a big button on the top of the machine. I have to go find one of these for Emma!
Pictures like this one below always get to me. It's images like these that make you realize that sweet angels like this grow up way too fast. Addy, like my daughter Emma, was quite the independent explorer. She always looked back to see if her parents were following her, but was completely content going on a trek of her own choosing. I love watching children this age -- they're so inquisitive.
