BiRtHdAy GiRl

What a Year! In this short time you have managed to wrap the whole family around your little finger. You scream, we jump. You cry, we all try to figure out how to help you. You laugh, we all laugh with you. Your smile is infectious and lights up the room! Garrison completely adores you and you adore him and as a mother there is nothing greater than that!

About two months ago you came crawling out of your room with something in your mouth, when you got closer to me I realized it was a pacifier you had found in your toy box. That and a blanket (aka burp cloth or Uncle Jimmer calls it a dish rag) have been your constant companions ever since. As with your brother (and cousin Ella) you have become obsessed with the tag on your blanket. I just smile every time I hand you your blanket and you have to immediately put the tag in your hand or mouth. You've also found a new freedom this past month with learning how to walk. I am constantly stepping on Cheerios that are magically appearing EVERYWHERE!

I know this year will be just as fun growing with you and watching more of your personality and quirks come out.

Happy Birthday Princess Poo Poo Face!

*that's what Gar and I call you when you are having a moment. Gar cracks up everytime because what 4 year old doesn't like to say poo?!?! and this usually gets us all laughing again*

Three little Pigs

I am not one of those happy glowy pregnant persons and newborns scare that crap out of me! So to many it is no surprise that Adi is our last baby. I have not once thought about how sad it is that I will never experience this again, in fact I look forward to every day that Adi (and Gar) grow and hit new milestones. Until last week........It hit me like a ton of bricks. I went to pick Adi up from daycare and the cute girls had put her hair into 3 piggers (pigtails).

So Dang Freaking Cute!!

I'm not sad that I will never experience those things again but I'm sad that time is flying by so quickly! She is not my newborn baby anymore.....she is almost a toddler

9 Month Well??? Check

Wow, 9 months, I cannot believe it, time is flying!! No major malfunctions this time and Adi was such a super trooper and gave everyone big smiles. Kaley said all the ladies voted in the office and she was the cutest little thing to come in that day and I couldn't agree more. She is pretty darn stinkin cute! However, while the dr was looking in her ears he discovered she had an ear infection. What?! How?!? Who?! How does one not know she has an ear infection, Mother of the Year here people. Once again, I thought the runny nose and coughing was teething. Or wishing it was teething because the two teeth on the top are starting to get longer and it's really going to look silly when she doesn't have the other front tooth yet. Here's how she's looking......

Head 17.3 inches - 25th-50th percentile

Weight 16.5 lbs - 10th percentile

Length 27.1 inches - 25th - 50th percentile

Still a peanut

and just in case your wondering a new front tooth popped through on Saturday. YEAH!!! Not sure why she has to get so sick every time she is teething.

Watch Out World

Baby girl is on the move.........

Pep talk by big brother

And the hits just keep coming

*this picture pretty much sums up June*

Double ear infections and a new tooth behind us we dropped the kids off at Aunt Sue's (yes, I do have the best sisters!) on Friday, ready to start our vacation. *Side note, my hunches were right and Adi did get a new tooth with the ear infections. Not one of the front teeth she needs but one of her eye teeth, yes, our daughter has a fang ( really!?!?). Anyways, we dropped them off and flew off to Hawaii for some fun in the sun! (literally we needed the sun , hadn't seen it in quite some time with all this rain)

However, when I called on Saturday morning to check in on Aunt Sue's mental status (and the kids) Adi was not doing well again. Maybe the ear infections were back? Being the Super Mom, Sue survived the weekend and packed up all 4 kids and took Adi to the Pediatrician on Monday. I should mention that on the way to the doctors office a tire tread shattered Sue's car windshield ("Aunt Sue, watch where you are going!" haha). Her ears were good but now she had a very sore throat but the only thing to give an 8 month old is Tylenol and Motrin. As luck would have it Sue's 2 kids both came down with the flu on Tuesday and Wednesday, Good Times! Gar started running a fever but really nothing more, luckily. We got home the following Friday and everyone was back to health, minus the windshield. On Saturday, Adi woke up with a little cough and runny nose but I didn't think much of it until Sunday morning. The poor little thing could barely breathe her chest was so congested. By noon I was in my usual freak out mode, I don't handle sick kids very well, and took her into Insta Care. They hooked her up to an oxygen reading machine (which of course Adi screamed about) and they didn't like the results. They decided to give her a Nebulizer treatment, wait....did I say they gave her? I meant they made me give her. Have you every tried to hold a sick, squirmy, screaming bloody murder 8 month old down while holding a mask to her face that is making this awful sucking noise with steam coming out of it? It sucked and I cried! After all this the doctor came up with a diagnosis of asthma, WHAT?!?! Coincidence that Aunt Sue had the same symptoms during the weekend? Anyways, we now own our own Nebulizer machine which was a god send for the next 2 days because she was able to breathe a lot easier and is now back to her old self.

Oh Yeah, Happy Father's Day! I didn't mention that on late Sunday afternoon I got the flu and was out of commission. Sorry Sean, I owe you another day.......

I'm now happy to report that in between all this another tooth popped through on Tuesday. A front tooth next to the fang, now she'll just look lopsided!

More to come on Hawaii but now I've got a game of "Go, Fish" calling my name

Double the Fun

It all started out so innocently last Sunday, a small fever, nothing a little Tylenol couldn't handle.  Monday morning brought a little bit more of the same but I chalked it up to teething.  No worries until around 1 that afternoon when I get the dreaded phone call from day care asking me to come pick up Adi, her temperature is now 103 and she had a dose of Tylenol an hour ago.  We tried a dose of Motrin but we couldn't get the fever to break.  A quick call to the pediatrician and they say there is some sort of fever that has hit the valley, not to worry it goes away in time, just keep giving her Tylenol and Motrin.  That night she screamed for hours so I finally sat in the recliner with her and let her sleep on my chest.  Around 3 am I woke up soaking wet, Adi had sweated out her fever and she was doing better so I was able to put her back in her bed and get a little sleep.  Tuesday morning she was a little warm but nothing like the day before but she couldn't go back to day care yet.  Lucky for me Aunt Kim was available to watch her half day.  She did great all day and I was happy that her fever was almost gone and the worst was over but around 7 pm the fever came back.  She was on fire again, this time we got temp readings from 103 to 105.  Wednesday morning she wasn't any better and I was a complete mess!  At my work, the first part of the month is our absolute busiest time and we've only got so many days to get everything in and reports out the door.  This is one of those times when all I want to do is snuggle Adi better but I've got to be at work.  How do you chose work or family, the balancing act is impossible!?!  Aunt Kim swoops in and saves the day again(I don't know what I would do without my sisters!)  I am able to get an appointment to see the dr that evening and we figure out that on top of the fever she has an ear infection in both ears.  That explains how miserable she has been!  We start the  amoxicillin and I feel better knowing that I am finally doing something to help her.  The fever had broken early Wednesday so Thursday she is able to go back to day care.  I drop her off but around noon I get a call that she has been crying all morning.  I head over there to see what is going on and I notice that she has a rash all over her body, is she allergic to the amoxicillin?  I call the dr again and they want to see the rash to be able to tell.  Sean picks her up and takes her to the appointment but they can't tell if she is or not so they suggest to stop using the amoxicillin to see if it goes away.  I'm stressed out again!!  Friday morning the rash is clearing up and Adi is smiling again, YEAH!  I pick up some ear drops and she becomes a whole new woman. 

It was a hell of a week and I am so glad it is behind me!   

*Thanks to Kaley for working at the pediatricians office and being so patient with me also*

6 Month Drama

Our cute little monster, errr angel had her 6 month check up this month. I picked her up a little early from daycare to go and the cute girls that watch her had changed her into a fresh outfit and put a bow in her hair for her big appointment. As they sent me out the door they gave me fair warning that she hadn't slept for more than half an hour the whole day. I was so prepared and impressed with myself because that morning I had remembered to bring the diaper bag with me but as I quickly figured out not prepared enough to have a bottle made for the ride. The dr's office is literally 5 minutes away and she was in the backseat going on and on. We get there and we are a little late so I head right up for the appointment without stopping to get some water for her bottle. While we are checking in she is still carrying on. We get checked in and Kaley (my oldest niece works for the pediatrician) immediately comes and gets us (THANK YOU!). We get into the room and we have to get Adi naked so they can weigh her. Normally nake nake is her thing but today she just wasn't having it, she was in no mood for any of this. We get her weighed and I pick her up to take her back to the room and she pees on me. I am finally able to get a bottle made and this makes her a little more bearable. The doctor comes in and does his thing and she tolerates it well enough, she even gives me time to talk to the doctor to ask questions. He leaves and enters Kaley, the one with 4 shots to give, it gets ugly. I have never seen her carry on and on like she did, she was so upset! She cried getting dress, she cried while we were making her next appointment, she cried down the elevator and all the way to the car. As I was driving away she was still crying and finally after about 5 minutes in the car she fell asleep. Blessed silence!

Our little peanut weighed in at 13.8 lbs - 10th percentile. Height 25 inches - 10th percentile. Head Circ. 16.5 inches - 25th percentile

Sitting up and Carrots

What do these two things have in common? Nothing that I can think of except within this past week they have been two new skills Adi has added to her quickly growing bag of tricks. She was able to sit up all by herself without tipping over immediately. You still have to be sitting right there with her because she goes to grab for something and she face dives to the floor. But this weekend she was able to sit there a little longer without tipping to either side, she was even able to grab for something and still remain upright. I am savoring every minute of her immobility because I know it isn't going to last much longer!





We had been giving Adi rice cereal in her bottle but I realized that it was making her throw up a lot so I stopped and now it seems like she is just always hungry. Our pediatrician had recommended that we start with baby foods around 6 months so I decided last week was a good time to start spoon feeding her since she would be officially 6 months old on the 7th. I was trying to decide what would be the best food to start her off with and everything I read or heard was contradictory (I didn't even bother to check the baby books this time, it just upsets me that I didn't keep better records). As I was thinking about all the opinions I remembered Gar's love of carrots, or obsession with all foods orange. Look at this picture......

He ate so many jars of carrots that according to his pediatrician the beta carotine built up under his skin and turned his nose coloring orange. That was it, decision was made. On Saturday (April 4th) we loaded Adi into the high chair and gave her the first spoonful. I was expecting a bigger reaction but she just sort of ate it like it was nothing new to her, no funny faces at all. Now when she's sitting in her chair and see's the orange container she gets really excited and I can't feed her fast enough. Maybe we'll have another orange nosed tot around our house again.

Da Da Da Da Da

First off, I am horrible at filling out baby books and even worse at scrap booking! I decided to start a blog because it is such a great way to track moments/memories in our lives for everyone to keep up on and so far I find it so much easier for me to stay on top of it. Since having Adi I have found myself wondering, when did Gar do this or that? I've gone back to his baby book (wait, make that baby books) and wouldn't you know it, the page is blank. Yes, I have two for him and I still managed to miss stuff, lots of stuff.

So for memories sake, I'm just putting this out here but all I've heard since Sunday is Da Da Da Da Da. Which is very cute and I called Sean and put her on the speakerphone and let him listen but we(mothers) all know it's not an official first word yet. I can feel a Ma Ma Ma coming on soon, than it will count!

Rollie Pollie

It's official, the "Fusser Bee" (Sean calls her this and she grins from ear to ear) was able to roll over from her back to her stomach. She's been so close for weeks but hasn't been able to get her arm out of the way until last night. When she did it I don't think she realized what she had done and she was kind of mad because she doesn't like to be on her stomach. She quickly flipped herself back over to her back and the look on her face was like what just happened? It was so much fun to watch her the rest of the night go from her stomach to her back from her back to her stomach. I don't know who was more proud/excited, me or Gar!

If you'll excuse me now I'm going to have to start baby-proofing our world again.