Ears pierced!

This morning started off to a bad start. My car has been acting up for quite a while now. This morning it was dead again when I went out to start it. So one of the guys of course had to come jump my car off...again. Then I go to drop Addison off with Josh and while I'm inside I hear my car making the noise like someone was over starting it. (Like my technical words? lol) So I go outside and it's still making this noise and I cut the car off. Well of course it won't start after that. Then Josh picks his glasses up and realizes the dog had found a new chew toy. Nice! So on our way to take me to work we had to stop by Walmart to get his glasses fixed. While we were there we took Addison to get her ears pierced!!! Of course he made me hold her so she sat there and let the two ladies put marks on her ears no problem. Then she sits in my lap and actually sits there while they're playing with her ears. She's being completely still this whole time. Then the woman tells me to hold her arms down and hold her head back. That's when the crying started. Who wants to be held down anyways?!? But after they finally put her ear rings in she cried for literally a minute and was done. She did so good! Made my day a little better. :) Of course here's the pictures.
She looks so pitiful. :(

Wiping her face on my shirt. :(

Now she's perfect again. No crying. :)

6 month update and boy scouts

Addison turned 6 months old on the 20th. She weighs 14 pounds 7 ounces. She's starting to come along now. She turns over from belly to back and back to belly with no problem. Today was actually the first time that we saw her go back and forth. She likes sitting in her bumbo seating but still isn't getting the hang of sitting up on her own yet. She'll do it for a few seconds and then she'll start smiling and kick herself over. She's holding her own bottle and feeds herself bread or her butter cookies when she can. She definately has no problems getting whatever she wants to her mouth. We will be taking her to get her ears pierced sometime this weekend hopefully. Of course Josh has already told me that I have to hold her during it. :) She's done really good since she had her g-tube removed. We're only having to go to the GI every 3 months now. Her scars are even almost completely gone. You couldn't even tell that 3 months ago she had 3 different surgeries and was failure to thrive and having a hard time. She is short and small for her age but look at her mommy. (I'm definately not the tallest in my family.) :) And of course everyone STILL says she looks just like Josh. I guess Eli's still my only hope. LOL

Jacob and Eli have started Boy Scouts now. This is the first activity really that Eli has participated in. He refuses to do sports or even karate because he doesn't want people looking at him so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he will stick with this. He did very good in class with the other boys his age and didn't even look around to make sure I was in the room. (I tried to hide but still kept an eye on him. lol) Jacob of course was "c-ya" and took off as soon as we got there. He has no problems doing things on his own. I took them to Walmart last night to sell popcorn. Jacob of course did fine but I was a little worried about Eli. He had Gabe there so I think that helped. But he did perfect! A guy even came up to him and gave him some change and Eli said "do you not have any dollars?" :) I thought I was going to die laughing. But so far so good!!!

Baby contest and Rockwood Fall Festival

We took the boys and Addison to the Rockwood Fall Festival this weekend. We put Addison in their Prettiest Baby Contest. After we registered her we were getting a little worried because they mentioned something about it being only Roane County residents. I took Addison up there in front of the judges and of course she did perfectly. She was such a ham and kicked and smiled in front of the judges. We stood in line while everyone else was showing off the other babies. They were all really cute and some even had on some of those expensive pageant dresses. But Addison won 1st place!! She got her own little medal that said 1st place and a $25 gift card to Walmart. Then we walked around the festival and let the boys play and paint their own pumpkins. Jacob got a little hot towards the end but they all had a blast. Thank you Karen for telling us about it and going with us. It was so much fun. Here's some pictures of course. :)

Belly time

Addison now weighs 14 pounds 3 ounces. Dr. Ruth said that she's smack dab in the middle of the growth chart now. Yay! She's still a short squirt like her mommy and every time we go somewhere I get "ah what is she 3 months?" Nope 5 months thank you. :) I've been laying her on her belly as much as possible and now she scoots all over the floor and rolls over from her belly to her back. She likes laying on a pillow and playing with her toys in the floor or even watching Mickey's Clubhouse laying on her belly. She's so much happier (not that she wasn't extremely happy before) but she doesn't care to have her belly touched or tickled or even fall asleep on her belly. She's been released from her surgeon (Dr. Fowler - which I will recommend to ANYONE who needs a pediatric surgeon.) I changed Addison's pad on her belly the other day at mom's house. Between Cassie, Daddy, and Joey, I asked Cassie to help me. LOL Joey and Daddy saw her belly once I took the bandage off and they both made a beeline out of the room. So me and Cassie changed her bandage and of course all the boys had to be right there watching and doing the "ooo that's so gross" and "nasty!" Addison just laughed. Here's some recent pictures.



Eli falls asleep like this almost every day after I pick him up after work. I think school and playing at Mamaw's is wearing him out. :)


Almost gone!

G-tube is gone!

We went to see Dr. Fowler yesterday. I was a little nervous because I was so afraid that she wasn't going to take the g-tube out and it's been starting to bother Addison, but she took it out! Finally! She had estimated that she could have it in between 3 months to a year and she had it in 3 months to the day almost. Addison did very good. Dr. Fowler took it out in the office. All she did was use a medicine syringe to deflate the bubble on the inside of her stomach and just pull it out. No needles or crying or anything. Addison didn't cry either. LOL. Of course me and Josh both had to take pictures of Addison's little hole but it looks so weird (and gross) before she put the gauze and tegaderm patch on it. Kinda looks like a gun shot wound. Yes it's yucky but I'm gonna post pictures anyways. :) We're just happy that she's doing good and everything is out and now she can start doing all the belly stuff like most babies her age are doing. Yay!!!

Waiting on Dr. Fowler

Addison's hole where her g-tube was. I know I know...gross. But I had to. :)

Addison celebrating after with a piece of bread. (This excites her.LOL)

Play time

So Saturday morning we get up and start to get ready for a swimming party that we were supposed to go to. Then the entire morning Addison kept getting choked and gagging from being congested so bad. (Besides I was already worried about a string that I thought was wrapped around her g-tube.) So I went ahead and took her to Children's. First I took Eli over to play with Blake and Ryan and Jacob went with me. Big mistake going to Children's because I failed to mention that this was at 12:30 when the Florida game started at 3. Our 10 minute drive to Children's took us almost an hour I think. They ended up not really doing anything for her because she can't take anything and she has a mild viral infection. (A cold.) So we went home and got Eli and went down to the lake in Karns and played in the water a few minutes (mainly because I locked my keys in the car and had to wait on mom to come and let us in.) We were actually just going "riding." LOL Anyways. We got back home and Jacob and Eli were playing with Addison. Jacob totes her around everywhere now and she played wrestling with them and even chewed on John Cena's head. :) Then Jacob hollars at me and tells me to come find Addison. His new game is to hide Addison and then get me to come find her. He did this with Josh once so I already had an idea of what he was doing. I've attached a picture. We made a trip to Babies R Us and found a Mickey's Clubhouse chair. Addison loves Mickey's Clubhouse so that's definately going to be a 1st Christmas present for her. Shhh! :)

By the way, Addison weighs 14 pounds now. She's basically discharged from the GI doctor since we no longer use the g-tube (which we're hoping to have taken out on Thursday) and she only goes every 3 months now just to check her weight and stuff. Enjoy the pictures!

This is Jacob and Eli showing her how to play with wrestlers...the right way. :)

Jacob and Addison are dressed up as ninjas. I think she just has one of Jacob's white t-shirts on.

Addison being attacked my Mickey Mouse. She loves watching Mickey's Clubhouse every morning while waiting on Daddy and I'm getting ready for work.

This is the Mickey Mouse chair that's going to be a MUST for Christmas. She laughed every time I put her in it.

Jacob putting Addison in the lake. (I think it's a lake. Lake, river, same difference.)

Can you find Addison?

Tennessee football time

Addison got to wear her 1st UT outfit. I figured I would post some pictures. Uncle Kenny would be so proud. :) The Gouge and Elrod families are big into UT football so of course Addison has to join the crowd and be all decked out. Not sure how Josh's family is on the Vols yet but with mine it's definately a sin to not join in. The boys had matching UT clothes this morning too (until Eli spilled toothpaste on his shirt) but I can never sit still long enough to get morning pictures of them before we're rushing out the door to catch the bus. :(

Here's the 1st UT outfit (notice I said 1st...she has several.)

Me and Traci agree she's starting to look like Sarah Kate. I think this one she looks like her.


This is just a picture of her new toy. She was playing with it then got really tired and ended up falling asleep.