Spicy Addi

Addison still continues to keep us on our toes. She has such a strong personality and opinion that we never know what to do with her! She likes her socks jacked clear up to her knees. She wants her toe to always be painted and sometimes her fingers as well. She usually picks a light pink sparkle color. Having Will over is still one of her favorite things to do. They like to play kitchen together and run around jumping and chasing each other. Addison still only likes to lick the frosting of her desserts. No cake or cookies for this girl! Her hair is always wild and crazy even though I comb and style it every morning. She insists on having a clip in her hair when she sleeps now. Her ultimiate treat is having her very own spicy juice of rootbeer. It is amazing what I can get to her do or not do if spicy juice is on the table! We love you Addi June!

Baby Avery

Avery you are going to be a Mama's girl I can already tell! She loves to be held and will be full on screaming and then start to smile once you lean over to pick her up. We have spent a lot of time rocking in her room during the late/early hours depending on how you look at it:) I am still trying to figure out a night routine for her. She seems to change day to day on when or if she wants to go to sleep! You are content to sit in your carseat and be toted around to everything we have to do. Avery takes the best and longest naps sitting in her carseat. It amazes me that she will go sometimes 3 hours all bundled warm in there. Addison's latest big sister duty is to rip your socks off and go running away fast. Most of the time you only have one on depending if I have gotten to you before Addison sneaks the other! Addi still holds the award for getting Avery to smile the biggest. She is trying her very hardest to be a thumb sucker. I have had to start putting gloves on her hands again so she stops scratching her face so much. You continue to brighten our days with your contagious smile and constant drooling mouth!

Baby It's Cold Outside!

We got our first of many snowfalls last week! It welcomed Jenny right as she came. Dave took Addi out a couple times and so far she likes it! She of course likes to eat it and make snow angels. Saturday after Jenny left we met the Quinn's at a hill to go sledding. It is now almost 4 days later and I'm still feeling it! I wiped out a few times to say the least. Addison loved to go down if she was with someone. Her and Kalie we buddies going down on each others laps. We came home and warmed up with come hot chocolate that Addi insisted needed to be eaten with a spoon! We got out our Christmas decorations as well and are in full swing for the holidays. Addison decorated our little tree all by herself and continues to take the ornaments off and on all day. Hopefully we still have a few in tack by Christmas. This is the year that Addison is starting to understand what is going on with Christmas. She loves to sit at her table and play with her nativity set. Her favorite is the donkey? We are working on perhaps baby Jesus making it to the top of the list. We have a small set of glass santa boots that Addison asks everyday, "What are those?" It makes me laugh that she is so fascinated by them. We bought supplies to make a gingerbread house and have been enjoying holiday music and books. Santa already knows what he is bringing the girls so hopefully no more naught behavior! This year we are getting a special visitor from the North Pole coming to our house. She is a little elf with a sparkly skirt. Addison still needs to pick a name for her, but she seems pretty excited to have her "watching" her behavior all the time. This is Dave's last week of school EVER! He has a nice dinner to go to on Friday to celebrate with his classmates and then we are doing rootbeer floats on Monday. I am so incredibly proud of him and all of his hard work and dedication. He has balanced so many things and still managed to be a good dad and spouse. To top it all off we finally found out where we are going to be stationed! DAYTON!! I of course and beyond excited. I keep telling Dave, "A Happy Wife is a Happy Life!" We are really looking forward to being to close to family and especially grandparents! 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving 2013! This was the first year in I don't know how long that we didn't travel. It was kinda nice to have family come to us and enjoy a low key holiday. Jenny flew in from California from a Monday to a Saturday. We really enjoyed having her here and Addison was happy to have her BFF Harley back. Poor guy gets worked to the bone while he is here with Addison chasing him around. Jenny and I fit in two movies...yes I finally went to a movie! It seems harder this time around to leave Avery for some reason. We saw Catching Fire and The Book Thief.  They both were amazing movies simply because the theater by us has reclining movie seats! Jenny even brought a blanket the second time around:) I escaped having to do a turkey for one more year! Jenny made a really moist turkey with fresh herbs. We worked as a team to make the sides and everything turned out really yummy. Addison enjoyed eating not one, but four rolls for her meal! We all went around and said what we were thankful for and Addison said Harley and her Little Sister. She just says the cutest things! Dave and Jenny softened up and each were able to say something nice about each other. I of course told Dave I was grateful for donating an X chromosome so we could have sweet Avery with us this year. We watched a lot of movies and Addison and Jenny (and Harley) did a lot of tea partying.  Aunt Jenny spoiled everyone with gifts...including Dave! She brought Addison a new Rapunzel tea set and dress that she will only tuck under her arm pits?? She gave me fancy Vera Bradly slippers for my birthday that I love of course. She hand delivered Avery's cross stitch masterpiece! I love it and I know someday Avery will appreciate that hers is bigger than Addison's!! Haha I guess I need to keep having babies to keep her cross stitching sharp:)  Dave received the biggest bag of beef jerky possible. Addi has been begging for Jenny to take her for some more pink ice cream with sprinkles. They went out on a little date one night and Addi was in heaven!We went to an indoor trampoline place that everyone enjoyed. Jenny managed to do a few toe touches and I bounced around trying not to wet my pants! There was a lot of quality napping that went on and lots of snuggling. We were grateful for Jenny making the trip and feel very blessed this time of year as we reflect on our bounty!

Catch Up

My life seems to be getting ahead of me more and more every day. I can't seem to keep caught up with my mind! Becoming a mother of two has thrown a curve ball at me and staying organized. I am going to just sum up the past few weeks and be done! Dave is almost finished with school! December 6th is his last day of clinical. He will take the boards in February and then ship off to basic training March 5th- April 5th. Then the Air Force will move us to our next adventure. We got a list of four places and ranked them. Dayton, Vegas, Virginia and Northern California were our choices. That is the order that we ranked them in and it is killing me not knowing! I want Dayton so bad it hurts. I know we will go where we are needed, but it doesn't hurt to want to be by family a little does it?! We had a weekend of nice weather so we went to the park one last time and ate lunch and went for a stroll by the creek. Addison loves being outside. This winter is going to be tough. My parents stopped through on their way back from Boston. We went out to Mexican to continue my birthday celebration one more time:) Addison was happy to have a roommate for a few more nights. She talked Papa into reading her lots of books and playing blocks. Grammie was my hero and stayed up with Avery one night so I could try and get over my cold. Almost 2 weeks later and I can finally breathe through my nose. Addison is almost over her cough as well. Avery has a little cough here and there, but cross your fingers that we can stay well this winter! Addison has gotten creative lately and done a lot of coloring on herself. No matter how many times I tell her not to she colors her hands with markers! Good thing it's washable. Addison's hair is long enough now to put in a pony tail and she loves it! She looks so grown up with one it makes me want to cry. I did it again...I put tiger's balm on my face and got a burn. I have been told many times not to, but when I have a terrible headache it is the only thing that will help! One day i'll learn:) 

2 Months Already!

Avery Mae is turning 2 months tomorrow! She had her well visit yesterday and these are the stats:

Weight- 11lbs, 7 oz (69%)

Height- 22.6 in (64%)

Head- 14.9 in (31%)

She took her first round of shots like a champ. A little cry, but no fever or fussiness later (she clearly got my pain tolerance!) She still has a little patch of dark hair on the back of her head and dark eyes. She is growing perfectly and I feel so blessed to have her added to our family. The doctor put her on an antacid medicine and it's like she is a new baby! No more crying from 7pm to midnight!! We put her propped up to sleep now and she doesn't scream til all hours. Unlike Addison , Avery loves to be swaddled up tight at night. I sometimes forget to do it, but as soon as I do she knows it's time to sleep.She is nursing a million times better and seems happier during the day as well. I have even been able to get a few 7 hour stretches of sleep at night. She is starting to go to bed around 10:30 for the most part if she hasn't slept too much during the day. Avery gets to sit in her swing a lot while I try and keep Addison out of trouble. The birdies that hang from the mobile are her favorite. Almost everyday Addison asks to hold Avery on her lap. She will look at her and sing twinkle twinkle little star. It is one of my favorite things to watch. Avery is a very sweet baby who just loves to be held. She will do this fake little cry to coax us to pick her up. She already is a very persuasive little lady!

Happy 27th Birthday!

The big day has come and gone! I am 27 years old now and the scale is tipping toward the big 3-0! I always like to make a huge fuss about my birthday being celebrated. I did really good this year and old reminded Dave the Saturday before that it was coming up. Having a birthday on a Tuesday was kind of a bummer plus I was (and still am) having a terrible cold. I cancelled plans for a birthday lunch since I didn't think my friends wanted me to cough, sneeze and blow my green snot nose on them. Addison still has a gross cough as well. Juana however, still offered to take Addison for a few hours for me. I took really long to get ready and then went out and ran some errands. Addison took a great nap and told me that she would be nice to me all day:) The Quinn's brought over a beautiful and delicious carrot cake the size of the moon! It was very thoughtful and of course my favorite kind of cake. Dave got me an iPhone for my birthday! I am beyond happy and I feel like my life has become a little easier with it for some reason. It is bright green and so light and slim. Addison hasn't gotten a hold of it yet so knock on wood! Dave had cub scouts that evening, but cooked me a nice dinner beforehand. Addison sang her very best version of happy birthday to me and blew out my candle. It was a quiet day, but I felt very loved from all the phone calls and texts!