New car seat

Addison's in a big girl car seat. She's not really supposed to be facing forward til she's one but I think the weight is 20 pounds and since she's only 2 months old...she's turned. LOL Plus now instead of screaming everytime we're in the car she's actually talking non-stop of falls asleep automatically. She loves being able to see everything. Her's a picture of her new "big girl" seat.

Day at the park

First I want to mention there were TONS of kids and Fountain City Park yesterday. I didn't see Jacob and Eli until it was time to leave. They spent the whole time playing with "the kid in the purple shirt." Don't you miss those days? The boys find a friend no matter where we go and we end up leaving and they don't even know their name, nor do they care. I remember doing that actually.

I stuck Addison on the baby swing and she loved it...until she about fell out, then she was done. So I put her on the kiddie slide. She just looked at me like "is that it?!" So...Josh decided to take her on the "big girl" slide. When I say big girl I mean this slide is about 8-10 feet tall. No joke. Josh got up there, while holding Addison...got stuck. Like this...(Notice his left leg. Dork wouldn't have got stuck if he wouldn't have bent it.)

So he somehow had to hand her down to me so he could get unstuck. "The handle bars were bent." Yeah uh huh. Then he goes to the other slide (same height.) This one "works" but Addison I guess had already been traumatized from the first attempt and DID NOT like it. She actually started crying. Of course once she got to the bottom and realized it was over, so was the crying. :)She was starting to get a little mad in this picture.

She was ok with the swing. Looks like she's trying to figure out how to get her socks off. :)

The end outcome. "Ah I'm safe on the ground now. Man that made my head hurt!" LOL

Pictures/Valentine's Day

I finally got some pictures of the boys. This was the day after Valentine's Day when mom gave them their Valentine's presents from her. I didn't get pics of them with what we got them but I was just glad to get a picture of the boys finally. It's not as easy to peel them away from the video games when they're playing with Blake and Ryan. Boys!

This is Addison in her "workout" outfit. Kallie was working out so she dressed Addison up in a workout outfit as well. Kallie is the babysitter's 6 year old. So that's Kallie's clothes. (I find it funny that Addison can fit into them somewhat at least.) Her shirt came to her knees, shorts fit enough to where they didn't fall off, and the socks were pulled to her knees. :)

This is Kallie's purple hair extensions that she put on Addison and a purple cheerleader shaker. She thought it was funny, I thought it was cute.

Addison and her Valentine's presents from Mamaw.

Jacob's Valentine's presents from Mamaw.

Eli cheesing with his presents from Mamaw too. But the webkinz came from Mommy. :)It's so hard to buy him stuff when it comes to Valentine's and Easter since he refuses to eat candy (I'm not complaining.)

Everyone had a good Valentine's Day. I got the boys their Valentine's webkinz and we got Addison a lady bug pillow pet (which she LOVES!) And by the way if anyone has kids with webkinz and wants to play with the boys online LET ME KNOW...but first you have to tell me how they do it. :) The boys come home saying they can play with this person and this person online because they have webkinz but I have no clue how to do it. LOL

8 things

Saw this on someone else's blog and thought I'd do it. Here ya go!

8 Television shows on my DVR. (I don't have a DVR but here's my fav shows.)
Hawaii 5.0
Mike and Molly
S*** My Dad Says
Supernatural
Smallville
Rizzoli & Isles (if it would ever come on again.)
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse :)
Wizard of Waverly Place
(Yeah I know but I have 3 kids...what do ya expect?!?) LOL

8 Favorite Restaurants:
Olive Garden
Wasabi/Misaki
Bonefish Grill (just got added!)
Hound Dogs (When I have the kids)
...to be determined :)

8 favorite singers or bands:
Sugarland
Eagles
Rascal Flatts
Big & Rich
opening up to some rock bands but couldn't begin to tell ya what they're called

8 books I have read:
Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn
Harry Potter (all)
Wicked
Davinci Code
started Vampire Diaries...can't seem to finish

8 things that happened yesterday:
worked
...Valentin'e Day...(2 thru 8) :)

8 things that I'm looking forward to:
vacation
summer
Addison's 1st birthday
taking the kids swimming all summer (everything's starting to revolve around warm weather)
several things to move forward
moving out of mom's
finishing school...eventually LOL
have I mentioned vacation?!? :)

Oops!

So...we were in the ER on Friday again. This time it was actually for an "accident" and not someone being sick finally. We rarely get these trips thank God but since we knew Addison was ok, it was something to laugh at afterwards.

Well Josh called me at work and said Addison fell on her head and he wanted to know what I wanted him to do. I asked what happened first. Josh will shoot me for saying all this but it's one of those "funny dad moments." LOL He was trying to put Addison's car seat in the car, there was something in his way and (I'm guessing) since it was muddy, he didn't want to put her car seat in the mud...so he put it on top of the car. Yeah I know... So she fell off of the car (in her seat) and landed on her head. He brought her to me and we went to the ER. She was perfectly fine and playing when he got here. Even behaved perfectly in the ER the entire time. They did a CT scan of her head to make sure everything was ok...yeah she didn't like that part AT ALL. We were standing in xray while they were getting ready to see her and the xray tech said, "has she complained of dizziness and fatigue?" I looked at Josh, then at Addison, then at the tech and said "she's 9 months old, she's not gonna talk." Duh! He started laughing. Apparently, he was just being funny. :) Everything came out fine tho and now she has her 1st road rash. I'm sure with the 3 brothers and 1 older sister, she's eventually going to have worse than this. LOL

Jacob of course fell down a flight of stairs on his 1st birthday and has hurt himself several times playing baseball. Eli is my easy going on...he only swallows quarters. LOL




This is actually her being "her." She's crawling now and I sat her in the floor to fix something to eat and within 2 minutes she had picked up the dog's water bowl and poured it on herself then crawled to the table and I found her like this. She slid under the chair and couldn't get back out. (Of course I had to laugh and take a pic before I helped her. LOL)

9 months!

Addison went for her 9 month check up today. She weighs 19 pounds 8 ounces (60%) and is 27 1/2 inches short (50%) lol. Of course her head circumference was only in the 15% but I think that's because normal babies have HUGE heads. :) She's been doing a lot of new things lately like: Papaw's trying to teach her to give kisses so she'll open her mouth wide sometimes to give kisses, she can get her fork to her mouth if we put the food on the fork, she thinks it's funny to turn herself in complete circles while sitting down, she's eat ANYTHING you stick in front of her face, she says dada and sometimes baba but I seriously doubt she means Daddy and bottle. (Of course if you ask Josh, she's talking about daddy.) She takes a sippy cup no problem and only has a bottle when she's taking a nap or at night. She does a camando crawl across the floor...still won't pull her knees up to actually crawl but who needs that when you get where you want. Actually sat her in the floor the other morning and dozed back off on the couch and within 2 minutes she was across the room pulling all the Wii stuff off the tv. And she'll walk and stand while someone holds her hands. She'll be walking before she's 1 if not making a really good attempt to it. Maybe she can be like the kids on tv and take her 1st steps when she sees Mickey Mouse. LOL! Dr. Machen was talking about how happy she is everytime he sees her. She's doing awesome from where she was 6 months ago. We've also put her in her "big girl" car seat. She LOVES it, even cries when I put her in her baby car seat.

1st time feeding herself with a fork.

Brushing her teeth...she got in my bathroom bag and always goes for the toothbrush. LOL

Papaw feeding her her 1st pop tart

Riding with Nanny in her big girl seat for the 1st time.

Here's where she was 7 months ago (today almost.) She's come A LONG way!