Addison

We were riding to dinner last night and Jordan told Addison to tell me what happened during the day. She responded with "I hit Ellett." Greaaat! She then told me that she got a "pop pop" from her Nana after she hit Ellett in the face. She was very matter-of-fact about it. I asked her if she was going to hit Ellett again and she's like "Yeah!" I told her that it made Mommy very sad that she hit Ellett and she laughed and then fake cried. I hope that she was able to learn a lesson...

She's pretty bossy with Ellett although she loves him to death and can't wait to see him most of the time. We're working on learning to share-both toys and people! Addison has a mini-hissyfit if I hold Ellett or talk to him or hug on him. You could say that Addison is slightly jealous.

The other night we were watching the Backyardigans (because if Addison is awake and we are at home, chances are she's wanting to watch the Backyardigans) and Jordan had to leave to go to his friend Joel's house to help with a car. About 30 minutes later I was putting Addison to bed and she asked for her Daddy. Before I would even answer her to tell that Jordan wasn't home she said, "Daddy's not here. He's at Joel's house..." then "Daddy can't sing right now." My girl is just so smart. She picks up on everything and can talk so well! She just amazes me! (and no I'm not biased at all...)

Addison-ism's

My child is very vocal. Jordan and I were talking about her development and looked online to see some kind of stats on what a 21/22 month old should be able to do. It said they should be able to say around 30 words. I'd say that she knows well over 100 words and their meanings not including what she can repeat on demand. She says the funniest things as she's exploring her vocabulary and learning to form sentences. Here are a few things she's been saying that I want to remember. She really makes me laugh! :)

* While riding in the car, Addison apparently saw a bird because she suddenly says, "Bird! Tweet, tweet! Caaaw, Caaaw!"

* Addison labels most loud engine-y noises as airplanes (eh-paaane!) and looks up and says "upupupup in da sky!"

* We were on our way to the outer banks last weekend (a post with pictures will come soon!) we went across one of the long bridges over the sound to the island. All you could see was water and Addison looks to left and says "Wa-er!!" then she looks to her right and exclaims "TWO wa-ers!"

* Addison is learning to count. She's getting better with it but you have to start with One, two, three and she'll say four and five sometimes six or waits for you to say six then says seven and eight. The nine and ten don't normally happen, although she did she "seben, eigh, Nana" the other day, so that was getting close! :)

* Anytime we go past a pasture with pretty much any type of animal, Addison tells me that it's a "Moo-tow!" She loves Moo-Cows! and giddy-ups (horses), and bak-baks (chickens), and sheep! pretty much all farm animals!

* One of her favorite things is to request songs that she wants us to sing to her. When she's really sleepy and clingy she asks for "hush-il-baby" (Hush Little Baby). She asks for "E-I-O" (Old MacDonald had a Farm), "March!" (either If You're Happy and You Know It or Lord's Army which she also calls "yessir!"), "Sessame" (Jesus Loves Me), "Issy Spyr" (The Itsy Bitsy Spider ...she loves the hand signs and grins and giggles while you're singing!). I'm sure there are other songs she requests but I can't think of them right now.

* My little sweetie is repeating everything she hears now! We really have to be careful what we let her hear on the TV and the radio (or what we say... I don't really want my almost-two-year-old says "Dang" or "Oh my gosh!").

* This is one of the funniest things she's said...and so smart! We were sitting in my bedroom and Addison found a nearly empty ibuprofen bottle and started throwing it, saying "Addison fow it!". Jordan and I both scolded her about throwing and took it away from her when she continued to do it. She cried so I told her she could have it back, but if she threw it one more time, I would take it away for good. She nodded and held it tightly to her chest. She was walking around with it when she looked at me and says "Daddy said fow it..." She was totally making that up and testing me with it! We laughed so hard and when I finally stopped laughing, had to tell her that NO, Daddy did not say that she could throw it! Funny Girl!

* This doesn't really have a lot to do with Addison talking but she is getting close to being able to start the potty-training process. She sees me potty and has to get her little potty and set it right next to the toilet. She then sits on it and will smile up at me then pause for a minute and tell me "Addison pee pee!" Now, I have no idea whether she's actually peeing at that moment or not since she's fully diapered and clothed. But she tells us immediately when she poops and she is definitely interested in the potty process. I think in the next few months we'll really start to get serious about it. I'm not going to push it too much yet since she's not even two yet. My goal would be to have her potty trained by the time she's 2 1/2. We'll see.

* I'm getting ready to make the switch to a size 4 diaper for her. She's been in a 3 for probably over a year now and it still fits pretty well but it starting to get kind of snug so I think the 4 will definitely be more comfy for her!

* When she's running away from me or doing something that she shouldn't be I'll call out "Addison Kate!" and she repeats it, which is just super cute! "A-i-son Tate!" We got her to say Addison Cline for a while and then she would say "Mommy Cline, Daddy Cline, Nana Cline, Papaw Cline" (all of which were right)"then "Grandee Cline, Papaw Cline, Kyla (Lyla) Cline" (which were not right, but it was cute!)

She's such a sweet girl and has started asking for hugs when she's saying goodbye. It's really cute and I am so hoping that she will continue to become more and more snuggly! I love some sweet Addison snuggles!

All About Addison

(Yes, I have an Addison Obsession. And, Yes, she is the only thing I have to talk about...ever) Addison is becoming such a big girl! She is so sweet and just hilarious to watch. Here are some Addison-isms:

* She can answer you when you ask what her name is and you can actually tell what she's saying (for the most part anyway...sounds kind of like "Aa-i-sin" if you say it really fast). She used to say "Addie (Aa-EE)". Where's my baby gone?

* Last week Jordan, Kyla, Addison and I went out to eat (Chang Thai-new Thai place we discovered which is so, so good! Addison spent the whole car ride saying "Chang Thai!" in the cutest little voice) and on the way home Jordan burped really loud. Kyla responded with an enthusiastic "Niiiiice!" to which Addison promptly repeated. Kyla and Jordan thought that it was hilarious so they kept making themselves burp so Addison would say "nice!" Thankfully she hasn't really done it since so I'm hoping she forgot it (unlikely). We're (or rather...I'm) working on her saying "excuse me" for burps. She knows that when you poot you say excuse me (or "moo me" in Addison-ese). If some around her poots and she hears, she'll suck her breath in and look at you really wide-eyed then laugh, say "moo me!" and then she'll say "Mommy (just for example sake) poo poo!!"

* Addison has a new facial expression that we call her mirror face. She stands in front of the mirror and raises her eyebrows as far as she can and brings her chin against her neck (creating multiple chins) and smile. She holds this face for a few seconds then laughs very dramatically at herself and then repeats the process. This girl is DRAMATIC! Can't wait until her teenage years! (Can you hear my sarcasm?)

* Addison knows how to group our family and friends into pairs or family units. We can ask her "Who does Pat (my aunt) go with?" and she'll say "Giiiinnn!" (Glenn-my uncle). She does this for most of my aunts and uncles or couples that we know. At night when we put her to bed she always prays for everyone she can think of. It's cute because I'll prompt her with a family member when she runs out of people to name and she names the rest of their family. I'll say "Lori" (Jordan's sister) and she repeats (La-wee) then says "Ellett" (Eh-it), "Conner" (Non-nah) and "Brent" (Bent). She looks at me and waits for me to repeat the name before she goes to the next one. We do this with lots of our friends and family. The first name out of her mouth is always "Sylas" (Sy-iss) then "Banyon" (Mam-in) sometimes followed by "Kirby" (Lob-ee) and "Dustin" (Ust-in). Then at the end she always says "Amen!" (several times)


* Speaking of "Amen", this Sunday Addison stayed with me for most of worship (as opposed to going to play in the nursery) so she was in the auditorium for the closing prayer. She stayed quiet and folded her little hands and squeezed her eyes shut, peeking out at me every few seconds. After the man leading the prayer said "amen" and before it got loud with everyone starting to talk, Addison yells "Aaaammennn!" out into the silence. Everyone start looking at her and laughing so that's all I heard about for the afternoon. It was really cute and only a little embarrassing!

* Addison is very much a girly-girl. She loves purses, chap stick and playing tea with her tea set. It's so cute to watch her carry her purse on her arm because it won't stay on her shoulder, so in order to keep it from falling off her little arm, she walks (or rather, she runs) around with her arm up, hand raised. She keeps little nick-knacks in her bag, such as multiple chap sticks, a stick of baby sunscreen that she calls her BIG chapstick, a Belle (from Beauty and the Beast) tiny figurine, Tigger figurine, one of her baby dolls' bottles, and some fake credit cards. She likes to empty everything out and then put it all back in. She also makes anyone who visits our house come to her room and sit down ("Nit Nown" while patting the chair) at her tiny Pooh Bear table so that she can serve them tea. Her favorite thing is for you to say "More, please" ("Mowe, peez" she repeats while grinning) to get a refill from her tea pot. It amazes me how she knew immediately how to "pour" the tea from the pot into the little pink cups and give it out to her "guests". It must be ingrained in her female DNA or something.

* Something else that amazes me is how she plays with her baby dolls or stuffed animals. She was doing one of her puzzles the other day and had her kitty cat with her (by far her favorite of the "babies", the one that she must have along with her night night (blanket) to go to sleep at night) and held the puzzle piece handle in the kitty cat's paw and put it in its spot. Then she looks at the kitty cat and said "Thank you, kitty cat!" (Nay noo, Tiddydat!) then repeated it several times to me including the sign for "thank you" until I realized what she was saying. Now she says it all the time. She also plays tea with her kitty cat by propping it up in the chair and passing the tea cup to it and taking it back saying "thank you kitty cat" and "more please." When I'm rocking her at night (between naming people in the ongoing nightly prayer) she sips on her milk. She has to offer it to her kitty cat and night night, as well as me and the rest on the toys across the room, while she makes sippy noises as we all "drink" her milk. She thinks this is funny but also uses it as a bedtime-delaying tactic. she definitely has a good imagination. She also likes to put chap stick on all her toys (but not really because it's rolled down too far in the tube).

She does tons of funny, cute things and I can't remember them all but I hope these gave you a smile or laugh for the day. :)

Not Much. Just a Butterfly Kiss

**Be sure to look back at Addison's 15 month post and my 15 week pregnancy highlights post. I've added some super cute pictures (well the ones of Addison are really cute...mine, not so much).


Addison is so silly! We were eating taco salad last night and Addison was dying to have some of the taco meat. She was begging and whining for it while it was cooking and so as soon as we got her in her highchair and the meat was cool enough we gave her some. She gobbled it up! I was surprised that she liked the seasoned meat but she ate about as much as I did (or so I thought... until I got her out of her highchair and found a ton of meat down in the seat. Tripp enjoyed cleaning her seat out last night :) )

We've been in the process of trading/selling cars lately and I have been stressing over what I'm going to be driving. I think we have finally settled down and I'll sign papers on it tomorrow. So my car will be a 2007 Acura TSX. It's a small somewhat sporty sedan that I can easily park but with enough room for the kiddos in the back seat. I'm pretty excited about it, mainly about knowing what I'm going to be driving on a day-to-day basis. My co-workers laugh about it because they never know what car I'm going to be driving from one day to the next. Hopefully it will settle down and I'll keep this one for a while. We'll see...

This is completely random but funny. A few weeks ago I was talking to Jordan and telling him that I was going to try to teach Addison how to give Eskimo kisses (the one where you rub noses) and hummingbird kisses. Jordan just looked at me with this weird look on his face, so I went on to explain. "You know, the kisses where you flutter your eyelashes on the other person's cheek. A hummingbird kiss." He's still looking at me and says that he knows what I'm talking about but don't I mean a BUTTERFLY kiss.

Yeah, I don't know where hummingbird came from but that's what was in my head I guess. I mean there's even a song named BUTTERFLY KISSES. I'm going to blame it on pregnancy.

This and That and a Girl Named Addison

**The other day Addison and I were in the car and Addison had her little snack trapper that she carries around with her everywhere. (I love that thing, by the way! It saves us lots of fights!) I can keep an eye on her in my flip down mirror now that she is facing forward in her car seat and I love that! She was being pretty good and eating her snacks when she discovered the bow on her head. Of course she had to immediately pull it out and then chew on that for a while. When I went to get her out of the car I started looking for her bow because we've lost many of them and I'm determined to keep track of the remaining ones. I couldn't find it under her legs or in the floorboard and I just couldn't figure out where it went. Then I saw it...

She had stuffed it down in her snack trapper for safe keeping I guess. Haha! It had me laughing so hard! I don't even know why I thought it was so funny but I just laughed and laughed at her!

**The other night Jordan, Addison and I ate dinner at my mom's house. One of her sister's has been visiting for a few weeks (from Reno, NV) so we wanted to see her and spend some time with her. So it was my Aunt Danni, her son Paul (my cousin), us, mom, dad, and Kyla. We all ate too much and then just sat around the table telling stories and jokes and reminiscing when I started to tell about making Jordan go to Sonic to get me Root Beer Floats (a craving I forgot to mention in my weekly preggo post). Kyla immediately thought I was going to tell about My Sonic Story that I posted about in one of my first blog posts ever. Well that lead to every one telling me that "_____ was my favorite!" and "I loved ____" referring to different posts from my blog! I loved it! It was so funny to me that people (albeit, family) read and remember about things on here. Someone else brought up the post about Chuck trying to go through the drive thru at McDonald's backwards. It was so funny to hear my family retelling my memories! Good times!

**I forgot to put in Addison's 14 mo. post that she can say "hot" also. She whispers it. It's so cute! Whenever she gets near the oven or certain fireplaces or touches a hot plate so whispers it and looks at us with big, wide eyes. We were eating dinner with Jordan's parents this week and Addison was going to over to the stove where Jordan was frying something and Gena told her "no, no. HOT!". So Addison whispered "hot" and walked away. She went over to the trash can and was getting ready to pull stuff out when Gena caught her and said "no, no..." Addison looked at her and whispered "HOT". She was a little off the mark there, but so funny!

Funny Addison Pictures

Here are some pictures that my sister Kyla cropped and edited when she found out I was pregnant with #2... They crack me up!

Ha, ha! So Funny! I love these! Thanks Aunt Kyla!

My Baby Girl is becoming a TODDLER!!

I know! I can't believe how big and grown up my Baby Addison is getting! She is crawling around like crazy and cruising all over the place. She got a new toy (a hand-me down) on Sunday that she is in love with. It's an adorable little Radio Flyer wooden horse scooter. She's never been on a toy like that where she has to straddle the seat and walk (okay, never mind. I realized as I was typing that that is exactly what she does in her walker-it just has a tray and a seat that contains her instead of being open with handles.). I didn't think she would know what to do with it but as soon as we put her in it she took off across the room. When she got to the other side, she stopped and turned around with the biggest smile on her face which was all lit up with excitement. Now every time we walk by the toy she reaches for it and cries to ride it! What a cutie I have!!

Last night I was playing in the floor with Addison and she was crawling/walking (while always holding on to something-she just won't let go yet-and that's okay with me!) all over the place. She was trying to get to the horse toy (mentioned above) which was in the kitchen. In our house to get to the kitchen from the living room (where we were playing) you have to step up onto a platform (that is the first step to the upstairs. straight across you go into the kitchen. left turn you go upstairs) and back down into the kitchen. Addison scurried over and climbed up on the platform. I was right behind her and had to catch her before she went down onto the tile floor in the kitchen. While we were on the platform she happened to notice there were lots of steps that stretched upward. Well the girl just takes off climbing them. I didn't think she'd be able to climb them since she never has before but she went up three. then four. then five. I was hovering right behind her with my hands inches from her ready to catch if she stumbled. My big girl climbed all the way up the staircase 3 times last night! It was crazy!! Like she'd been climbing steps all her life! We'd get to the top, I'd bring her back downstairs and she'd head right back over to them. She obviously has a new obsession; one that we will have to put a stop to with the baby gate.

This and That

Aghh... I have been so slack about blogging! I don't know why, but I just don't feel like writing anything. It's not like I don't have anything going on. It's not like I don't have a beautiful 11 month old crawling around doing all sorts of cute, funny things that I could tell about. It's not like I didn't just move into a new house that we've repainted and are currently decorating trying to make it our own. It's not like I'm not trying to plan a huge birthday party for 2 weeks from now. I have so many things I could write and share about but I have no motivation to do it. But then again, maybe it's because of all these things I haven't been able to make time to write... Oh well I'm doing it now, so here goes...

I was sick about a month ago. I was diagnosed with everything from strep throat to mastitis to a sinus infection to pink eye. All I know is that I felt like death with a fever and no voice and gunky, swollen eyes. I tried to blog-ument my illness and multiple doctor visits but just never finished the post. I had to miss 3 days of work with a weekend in between. I finally am better. The first antibiotic the the first doctor I saw prescribed made me vomit and extremely nauseous. I will never take Keflex/cephlexin again!!

The second doctor I saw told me that I had to stop breast feeding for the 10 days I was on the antibiotic/eye drops. I was so, so upset when I left the doctor's office. It's not that I want to breastfeed forever (quite the contrary, actually. I'm ready to be done nursing and pumping.) but I want to make to Addison's first birthday so that I don't have to use any formula. I want to ease it out instead of simply being cut off. He was just so definite and harsh about it, I felt that I had no options. And I was so scared that Addison wouldn't adapt well to changing her diet. When I got the meds filled, though, I asked the pharmacist about it and she said, without hesitance, that neither medication was unsafe to take while continuing to breastfeed. I was so relieved to hear that. I know most people don't understand why this was such a big deal for me, but I just wasn't ready yet.

Since then (It's been 3 weeks) I have started the weaning process. After being bitten a few times I decided that it was time to stop nursing. I'm still pumping, but Addison is getting bottles that are mixed with whole milk to ease into taking no breast milk. So far it's going well and I'm feeling better about the whole weaning process. After she gets used to the whole milk (we'll start upping the whole milk to breast milk ratio little by little) I'm going to start phasing out her bottle for a sippy cup. They make transitional sippy cups that have a soft top instead of a hard plastic top and I think those will be good for her. Addison will take either kind now, but only for her juice or water. She doesn't seem to like it when we try to put her milk in the sippy cup. It frustrates her for some reason.

Addison is such a sweet little thing! Yesterday when I got home with her, I was getting all her stuff ready to go upstairs and give her a bath (The only thing we use the upstairs for is to give her a bath and for her overflow closet usage...girl has a lot of clothes. :) ) and Tripp was acting really playful. I was carrying Addison and she kept leaning around me to see Tripp and she would just cackle at him. So then I started chasing him around the house and jumping out around corners at him (all while holding A) and she was loving it! She laughed so so hard and I was laughing right along with her (in between huffing for air, that is. Running around with a 20 lb baby on you hip for 10 minutes is hard work!! Totally, Totally worth it, but hard work!) I just have so much fun with her and she has so much personality.

Another Addison funny: Little Miss Thing has discovered Tripp's dog food bowl. It's right down the hallway from the kitchen leading into her bedroom and across from the laundry room. A few weeks ago I was working on some laundry and had A on the floor playing in the kitchen. She got really quiet, so I started to listen for her. After a moment I hard the dog food move around and realized she was playing in it. I ran over to her (she was just out of my sight around the doorway) and got the 5 pieces out of her clinched fists. Ever since she discovered it, her goal when in the area is to get to the dog food. Now she knows that I'm going to tell her "no, no!" so as she crawling toward it she will pause and look over her should and smile at me while I tell her "no" then giggle and go faster. It's really cute and I can't help but laugh at her. Sometimes I forget for just an instant what she's going to do and when I find her there, she's licking the food. So gross! She just looks up at me with the biggest smile on her little face!

Addison's birthday is on May 17th!! I cannot believe it's already here!! We're planning her party for the 22nd. It's going to be big with a lot of people but I'm trying to keep it low key, mainly in order to keep my sanity and to not go into debt for a birthday party. A party for someone who is too young to remember it! Yes it is a big deal, but I'm not losing my head over it! We celebrate her on a daily basis! :)

So I'll try to get some pictures up (been a little slack about taking pictures too, surprise, surprise...) and do better with my blogging regularity!

Little Miss Silly Pants

So Addison is just adorable. I know everyone already knows this, but I have to say it!

We had a really good weekend. Saturday she and I met my dad for breakfast at Bojangles (yumm, sausage gravy biscuits!) then went back home and did laundry and cleaned and played. I cleaned out her dresser and closet, which was a huge undertaking. She did so good the whole time. She played with toys in her crib for about 45 minutes then played in the laundry basket, haha. I took pictures of her in there while she was having a blast and will post them later.

She kept trying to pull up on the edge of the basket. She is getting so big and is turning into a...TODDLER!

I now have about 4 large diaper boxes full of clothes that Addison can no longer fit into. I'm keeping them for hopes that maybe one day I'll be able to use them for another little girl. It was sad to see some of those adorable outfits being boxed up, knowing that there is the possibility that I may never have the chance to dress another little baby in them. I'll deal with that on another day, though. For now, boxes go in the attic with out another thought. I was also able to bring out some clothes I'd been waiting for her to grow into.

It was so nice to be at home and have motivation to be productive while being there all day. I have a hard time finding the energy and drive to get a lot of housework done on the weekends when I actually have the time to do it. But after last weekend's 7 load laundry marathon, I decided to make sure I stay on top of it. We'll see how long that lasts, but for now I'm doing good with it and not even dreading it. I feel good when I've been productive (as long as I ignore the backache from carrying all those clothes up and down the stairs a million times, haha). I ended up washing nearly every blanket in my house, as well as the clothes we dirtied up over the last week. It was so nice to feel caught up.

Sunday was a bit different. Addison has been having a hard time going to sleep at bedtime (ex: She didn't go to sleep until after 10 on Friday night. We started the normal 20 minute bedtime routine at 8. Every time we held her, she would go to sleep but every time we laid her down in her crib and walked away, she would wake up and scream.) I think all of this is from teething (mainly because I don't know what else it would be). Back to Sunday. Addison was very clingy and hard to satisfy all day. She was extremely fussy on Sunday morning, refusing to nap and I since I woke up feeling super crummy, we didn't make it to church. It wasn't a horrible day and Addison wasn't bad just high maintenance and needy. I still enjoyed my day at home with her little sweet self. I like to get a taste of what its like to be a stay at home mom. I can't decide if I would love it or hate it. Most days I lean toward the loving it. I can dream right?

Last night, Addison was so much fun! We ate at Jordan's parents. They have the walker for when Gena keeps Addison and because she can get around better at their house. We put her in there and she zooms all over that house. She has already claimed a couple drawers in the kitchen and will open them and reach in and pull out whatever she can grab. She was in a great mood and back to her-in-to-everything-self.

After we got back home Addison was playing in the living room floor while Jordan was watching her and I was getting a load of laundry ready to was (I know, it really NEVER ends). As I walked through the living room with my arms full of clothes, I was watching Addison play.

I see her look intently at something on the rug.

Then I see her pudgy hand reach out and grab (with her fore finger and thumb...Developmental milestone: pincer grasp, check!) a tiny little piece of paper.

As I drop the huge amount of clothes in my arms and run over to her, she does what she does with everything she grabs, puts it in her mouth. I got to her just as she popped this tiny little piece of candy wrapper and proceed to pry open her mouth and look down her throat. I see it stuck on the roof of her mouth, the tiny yellow culprit, and feel the pull of certain chocking and suffocation looming in the air. I yell for Jordan to come over and help me pin her down to get it out of her mouth. Addison is trying to figure out why I won't let her sit up and play and is refusing to be still. Reason comes back to me and I realize that 1) Addison is NOT going to be still enough for me to safely put my hand in her mouth to grab it and get it out, 2) I'm pretty sure that you are never supposed to stick your finger in a baby's mouth in order to retrieve a foreign object in fear of lodging said object further down baby's throat and 3) the little piece of candy wrapper is not being swallowed or chocked on (yet) therefore I do not need to freak out (yet)! So we calmly let her play while we watched her like a hawk. I made a few attempts to swipe the paper out of her mouth, but couldn't get it. I had to walk into the kitchen for a minute and I heard her coughing, so I ran back over to her. Jordan was holding her with a triumphant look on his face and said he got it. Addison was still trying to figure out what just happened and really just wanted to play some more.

Then I finally put her to bed and it went a lot easier than it has been. I went to bed at 11:15 and woke up around midnight-ish to sheets/blankets moving around. I turned on the video monitor and Addison is rolling around like crazy.

She wasn't being vocal at all, so I tried to roll over and go back to sleep, but she just kept moving around. So about 30 minutes later I looked at her again. She had turned completely around and scooted down to the other end of her crib where she found the toys she'd been playing with form the day before. She was wide awake and having the best time playing with her toys. As tired as I was, I couldn't do anything but laugh at her. She's just so darn cute! She was rolling around and started to talk to her toys as she picked them up. After about 15 minutes of just watching her play, I went in the there and she greeted me with the biggest grin ever! My heart just melts every time she smiles, especially when its at me! I nursed her and she calmed down and finally when back to sleep after I laid her down.

That silly girl! She is into everything! I love her so much and the though of anything happening to her terrifies me! This is where I trust in God to keep her safe. This is where I ask God for guidance as a parent. This is where I plead with Him not to take her away from me.

My MLKJ Day

This past Monday was a holiday (Martin Luther King Jr. Day) so I got to enjoy a day off work with my Addison (and Jordan too)! I had arranged to meet up with my friend Keli that used to work at the Credit Union with me. You remember her from here and here. So Jordan, Addison and I met up in Burlington at Alamance Crossing with Keli, Nicholas and Emily and and Ashlea, Scottie and Caden. We ate at Mimi's Cafe. I had never been there, but wow, it was soo good! I had Salmon with a sweet ginger glaze. They had the biggest menu! We had a really nice time there catching up and talking about the new babies! Ashlea is due in March with sweet baby Jaxten and Keli is due at the end of May with their sweet baby boy! I brought Keli all of my maternity clothes so that she can get as good of wear out of mine as I got out of hers when I was pregnant! Caden and Emily are both 3 1/2 years old and they had the best time playing with each other. They are both so adorable and good kids!

We also went to Peaches 'n Cream Children's clothing boutique. It had the CUTEST clothes in there! I only ended up buying one outfit for Addison, but if they had had more items for a good price in the right sizes, I would have gotten a lot more. I'll take a picture and upload it later of the Christmas outfit I got her for next year or the year after. It's a 2T, so I don't know when she'll be able to wear it. I would guess in two years when she is 2 1/2.

We got ready to all go our separate ways and Jordan and I didn't even make it out of the parking lot before Addison decided to cry for the first time that day. She had been so good and down a jar of applesauce and 1/2 a jar of green beans baby foods at lunch! But it a been a couple hours since then and she was hungry and wanted her Mama, so I nursed her in the car in the back corner of the McDonald's' parking lot! Since we were there, Jordan decided we needed hot fudge sundaes, so he went and got us some while Addison nursed. She was really sleepy and went to sleep right after we got going.

I hate that I didn't get any pictures while we were together! I even remembered my camera but it stayed in the car the whole time. We had a great time and will definitely meet back up soon!

A trip to the Dentist and an Addison Funny

I had to go to the dentist last week to get a cavity filled. My dentist is a super nice guy and I love all of the hygienists, too. So the dentist comes in and numbs up my mouth then leaves the room while the numbing is taking affect. He then comes back in the room with one of the assistant girls and they are having a conversation as the enter the room. I hear (they are behind me, so I can't see them) them talking about how much it is going to burn and that it really is bad and it's going to hurt a lot more than people think it does.

Okay so I am sitting in the chair and thinking Man, this is a mean joke to play on someone that is about to get a cavity filled. Why would they think this is funny?? It's a good thing that I'm not scared of going to the dentist because I would have been freaking out a little if I was. So I, going along with the joke, remarked, "Oh I know! I am so nervous!" And they pause for a minute and then start backtracking. Turns out that one of the people in the office wanted to get a set of vampire teeth made and they were discussing how much getting them put on hurts (It's the same process that would take place if you get a temporary crown before you get your permanent one, but with no pain management. And apparently it burns.)

Oops. So they weren't talking to me... I felt kind of dumb. Oh well, what do you do?? ha ha!


So now for my Addison funny of the day. I bought a mirror to put on the headrest in the back seat of the car so that when I look in my rear view mirror I can see my little Miss Pris. For the past few days I've noticed her really studying the big WARNING sign on the side of her car seat. It's right next to her face (normally what her face is resting up against when she falls asleep) so when she looks at it see goes kind of cross-eyed. It's so cute because it's like she's trying to read it and figure out what it says. I sure do love that girl!!