Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

I know I've talked about this several times but I found out that Mickey's Magic Show was coming to Knoxville and just had to mention it again. Addison has this fasination with Mickey Mouse's Clubhouse. No one has any idea how much she LOVES Mickey Mouse until you actually see her do this. This show has been an absolute life saver in some situations. No matter what mood she's in or how sleepy she is, Addison will watch Mickey Mouse over and over and over again until she falls asleep or someone turns it off. And when I say over and over I mean: she woke me up at 6:30am one morning and I put in Mickey Mouse and put it on repeat and when I woke back up at 8:30 she was STILL sitting there watching Mickey.

She got tons of Mickey toys and clothes for Christmas. Even a Mickey Mouse chair that she loves to sit in. I'll sit her on the bed while I get ready and she'll not move an inch the entire time as long as Mickey is on. We watch the same DVD every single night when we go to bed and if she's having a fussy night then that saves my day. My dad recorded Mickey's Christmas Carol at Christmas for her to watch...not really the same. She watched it for a minute when she saw that it was Mickey Mouse but she wanted down and got fussy after 10 minutes or so. For some reason it's ONLY Mickey's Clubhouse. I figured it might be the bright colors so every once in a while I'll sneak in Handy Manny or just about anything else...doesn't work. She even knows my cell phone plays Mickey Mouse so she'll get it and look at it, flip it over, then hand it to me wanting me to pull up you tube. I love it! I get asked all the time if she's always a happy baby. I always say yes she is. She is! With as much as she's been thru, she is the perfect baby.

I am truly blessed to have 3 perfect kids. I kinda dropped being pregnant on the boys at about 7 months so it was a complete surprise to them but they love her and hold and kiss on her all the time. They are so good with her. Jacob loves being the little mommy sometimes and has even gotten up a few times at night to get a bottle for her. He loves doing stuff for her and taking care of her. Eli's still a little young but loves to kiss her and make her laugh. I couldn't have asked for better kids.

This is her watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on youtube at work with me. LOL

Again watching Youtube with Jacob. :)

One of my favorites. Shows how good she sits there. I have several of these now. LOL

Snow day(s) 2011

The kids have been out of school I think a total of 3 days now because of snow. We haven't had this much in a while and I'm actually enjoying it. Driving in it is a little "fun" but the kids love to play in it and even Addison is liking small bits of it. I took her out to play in it some yesterday and she loved it. Of course the boys were more concerned about throwing snowballs but Jacob and Tia tried feeding Addison some snow and she took one bite and shook her head "no." We of course didn't stay out very long (so don't panic) because yes it was very cold. :)

Watching Jacob outside. Love this pic!

Jacob's having to hold her up because the snow suit is so thick, she has a hard time sitting up in it.

Tried to sit her in the snow and this is what happened at first. Crash and burn. She actually laughed at this tho.

Mission accomplished!

He didn't dare. :)

Yes...it was clean snow.

3 hour nap! First time EVER!

This picture perfectly describes how hard it was to put the suit on. LOL

Twins...not. Still looks like Josh. :( LOL

Chilling, watching the boys snowball fight.

Snow ball fight

3 of the 4 boys fell over after getting hit.

Tia and Addison sledding. And yes that's a pool float. :)

She didn't cry or drop her pacy at all. LOL

Sickness

Ok EVERYONE in my house/extended house has been sick. First Jacob came home with it from his dad's (so maybe I should blame him. lol) Jacob was throwing up and diarrhea for a good solid day. He spent a lot of the day while I was at work in my room watching tv. He of course didn't call me til around lunch time to tell me that he had thrown up and was going to stay in my room. My response was "um...ok." He's getting so big and sometimes he acts like he doesn't need mommy anymore. :( That of course is not cool with me. Even tho he's a double digit kid now, he's still my baby.

Then Blake, Ryan, and mom get it all at once. Addison actually started gagging some (remember she can't throw up) and having some diarrhea so I went ahead and took her to the hospital. I'm still a little paranoid about her getting sick since she's not able to get out infections the normal way. She ended up having a sinus infection and I think a virus. (It's been a few weeks so gimme a break. lol)

Then Josh's 7 year old gets it. Then Josh's mom gets it. They both ended up going to the ER and THEN when Josh took his mom to the ER he calls me to come get them because he's throwing up in the parking lot of the hospital. So there's Jacob, Ryan, Blake, mom, Josh's mom, Gabe, and Josh all within a week maybe.

Then the day before New Year's Eve I come into work and get sent home because apparently my eye was red enough to where the Employee Health RN wouldn't come near me and told me I couldn't come back to work without a doctor's note. Good grief! BUT at least I wasn't vomiting or anything so I'd rather take the pink eye. And to make it worse I've completely screwed up my dieting so it's been a crazy holiday season but I'm looking forward to all the exciting things to come in 2011.

On the plus side...Addison has learned to feed herself finger foods. She's been eating banana puffs and will grab anything that's near her and help herself to shoving it in her mouth before anyone can take it from her. I've started putting her in the baby bed covered with her new Christmas toys and she sits in there for what seems like hours just playing and playing. Since I've started doing that she's learned to pull herself to a standing position in her crib. Yay! She's not quite crawling yet but she grabs whatever she can and pulls herself wherever she wants to go. As long as she's sitting up at least. She still doesn't really like being on her belly since all of her stomach problems so I'm starting to doubt whether she will even crawl anyways since she hates being on her belly that bad. She wants to always be standing up so we're thinking she may just skip that and go right to walking. I think crawling is cute so I kinda want her to crawl. :( Anyways...pictures! Hope everyone had a good Christmas and safe New Years!

Pulling herself up by herself in the bed and she's getting curls!

Eating banana puffs...one of her favorites. She literally will dive for these things. You can see her little scar on her belly in this one too. It looks really good and is barely noticeable anymore.

Christmas 2010

Addison's 1st Christmas went really good. For some reason I don't remember a lot of the boys "1st's" so I'm hoping these blogs help me remember Addison's. I had my laptop stolen with all the boys baby pictures so I don't even have pictures to remember all of it either. I know I'm not old yet so I'm hoping that doesn't mean I'll have Alzhimer's really bad. LOL. Anyways. We had a BUSY weekend this year. Jonathan had the boys Christmas Eve morning and during the day which made it really easy so they wouldn't feel left out while Addison did her thing with her other brother and sister. We went to Josh's mom's Christmas Eve and had Christmas with them. Addison loved opening presents and watching the kids. Then went and wrapped a TON of Christmas presents.

Christmas morning at mom's there were presents EVERYWHERE. Santa brought presents for all 5 kids (including mine & Joey's stockings of course lol.) Then there were tons of presents again from us, mom, dad, yadda yadda. Addison didn't know which toys to play with first and everyone took their turn helping her open her presents. The boys got all kinds of toys and it was so cute because they were just as excited making sure that Addison saw all her toys. And just because I thought this was funny, Eli told me that his daddy got him a bebe gun. My response..."yay, keep it at Daddy's." LOL! I'm very thankful that Jonathan let me have the boys Christmas Eve night/Christmas morning 2 years in a row so they could spend Christmas with Addison this year. We've been thru a lot with her and everything else and I'm very very thankful that we've gotten this far and she's doing as good as she has for everything she's been thru. That's enough before I cry. :)

Then we went to Aunt Gail's for Christmas part 356. LOL. Of course that all involves food, opening presents, dirty Santa, peanuts...it's crazy.

Then we had Christmas with Josh's mom and Granny and the kids so they could open their presents from Santa that were at Josh's house. Again, presents EVERYWHERE. I think Addison enjoyed watching all the comotion from Christmas Day more than she did opening presents. She stayed awake the entire day (besides sleeping the 5 minutes here and there we were in the car going back and forth.) She wasn't fussy or cranky or anything. Perfect for her 1st Christmas!

Of course like every other holiday there's always the things that you wish would have gone this way or done something different but everything actually went pretty smooth this year considering all the changes that happened this past year and we had a really good Christmas. Love you all and Merry Christmas! I'll add pictures to this as soon as I can.

Body After Baby continued

I was supposed to do a Body After Baby blog last week but never got around to it. I have slacked on the exercising lately. Well, stopped completely actually. But I still haven't gone back to the Mountain Dews and still watching what I eat so I don't fall back too far. But the good news is that I haven't gained anything. I'm still at 2 pounds lost so I'm ok with that. I haven't put any effort in it lately so that's my fault. Things have been so crazy with Christmas shopping and staying over late at work so there's been no time. This week is going to be crazy too so I'm going to attempt to slide in a couple trips to Court South then definately start back right after Christmas. I'm just happy I haven't gained any weight. Yay! Goal is to lose 2 pounds either this week or next week and start working out again for sure.

True Blend Photography - Addison 7 months

We took Addison to get her 6 month pictures (of course it ended up being 7 months) at The Cove in Farragut. She did really good and the lady that did our pictures said that she was very photogenic. She's a ham is exactly what it is. I loved the lady that did them. Her name is Nicole and she's with True Blend Photography. For $40 she gave us a 1 hour photo shoot with as many pictures as we could get in an hour and then gave us a copy right free cd. I love them! I'm taking the boys and Addison to get Christmas pictures or at least winter pictures as soon as possible. Needless to say there's over 250 pictures but I'm only going to post a few. I'll email some more if you want to see but here's a few. :) Enjoy!