A post I started about Addie several months ago...

"Last night I had my favorite dream I've ever had," Addie tells me as we are driving about 10,000 miles home from Grace's volleyball game.
"Oh yeah?"  I ask.  "Tell me about it."
She is leaning forward more dangerously than she should, while sitting in Miles carseat.  She is tiny enough to fit comfortably and is wearing her seat belt.
"It was the best dream ever because it was hilarious," she starts to giggle and as she continues, "I like, I didn't even want to wake up because in my dream I invented this bra that had a cape on the back and it was so awesome because you just had to flip it and SNAP IT ON!  And Kora had one and my friend Gretchen, too.  I never wanted to wake up and when I did, I wanted to just go back to sleep and keep on dreaming that dream."

My Adelaide is awesome.

Oh...and I don't suppose I've taken the time to mention that she turned TEN two months ago.  Oh well.  Here are a few unedited pics...which is killing me...but if I take the time to edit them...then I won't ever edit them which means I won't ever create another blog post again in my life.  Or something like that.

Addie still has some emotional break downs from time to time but things are getting much better.  In general she is happy...or...at least content and not angry and sad more than for a few brief moments per day.  I credit it to many things.  I'd say the biggest 3 are emotional/energy work, good school and Petey.

Sheesh...now I realize I don't know if I've even posted about Petey.  And I'm not up for looking back through my posts to see if I have or not.  But Petey joined our family last March or April.  I was not going to get a dog, then I started talking to Jason about it, then I started feeling more like maybe, but I really didn't want to, and then I saw Addie playing with a cat at the park, which was really strange because Addie doesn't even like animals...and I had a thought that she really need a dog, and then Jason's cousin Bug called us and asked if we wanted a dog that he roommate had rescued.  She said he was a Chiweenie named Peter Pan.  I said if he could be a Mexican Hotdog named Peter Parker it was a deal.  So, that's all I feel like writing for now...except that Grace was the one that really really wanted a dog and then he became almost completely Addie's.  Her most loyal friend.  Never holds a grudge.  Loves her even when she flips out.  He sleeps with her at night.  About a month ago he dug under our fence and got lost.  I wouldn't say he ran away because he seems to have no predisposition to be out of our presence at any time.  But anyway...we had to go driving around looking for him and Addie was switching from hysterical to grief stricken zombie.  We prayed and I asked lots of other people to pray and then I begged the Lord as we drove to let the sweet prayer she offered for her sweet Petey to be answered.  And it was.  Whew.  I guess I did want to write some more.