Day at Home

Today was just another normal day. I did lots of laundry and dishes and playing with Addy. We also went for a long walk around the neighborhood in the beautiful weather.

I have noticed some interesting things however. The number of houses in the past 2 days we've seen completely decorated for Christmas: 3. The number of mosquito bites I received today: 1. The month: November. Some of these things are just not right...

Instead of a home picture today, check out a preview of Addy's photo shoot from yesterday: http://suitetphotography.wordpress.com/

Visiting Friends

Yesterday, we went to church in the morning. Beforehand, we asked Addy what she was going to do during the homily this time. She wouldn't tell us, apparently it was going to be a surprise. And what a smelly, poopy surprise it was :) After church, we went to Panera and then Target. We got her Christmas present, a small kitchen, which we played at home with her for a little bit while it was still in the box. She was LOVING it. I can't wait until Christmas when we can get it out and really play with it! Then we came home and relaxed until Erin, mommy's friend from her work in Indy came by. Erin was traveling from California back to Ohio, where she was moving from Irvine to Columbus. Hopefully we'll get to see more of her now.



Today was a busy day, I wonder what our water bill would be for just today... over an hour of watering the yard, 3 loads of laundry, 1 dishwasher load, 2 showers, and a baby's bath. We also had to make an emergency run to Sam's Club, since there was NO formula powder in the house! Then we went to get Addy's 6 mo. pics taken. She wasn't real happy; I think her tooth was bothering her. But then daddy made us delicious pancakes for dinner, and everyone was happy :D

Bad Day/Great Day!

Thursday was a rough day. Addy was cranky off and on. I even ended up giving her a dose of Tylenol, just in case something was sore. I was thinking maybe she was having a growth spurt, and it was making her hurt a little. It was a nice day temperature wise, but was quite windy, but we decided to go for a walk anyway. I think some of the neighbors looked at me weird, when I was pushing a stroller in that wind, but we needed some fresh air. I kept checking on Addy (she was covered up by the shades on the stroller) and she was nice and toasty warm and enjoying the fresh air. Toby was the trouble one to walk, which is typical. Then we came inside for some cereal. We went back outside to start the watering for the night, when daddy called, and said his truck wouldn't start, and we needed to come rescue him. So we turned off the water, got changed and left for daddy's work. We jumpstarted the truck, then took it to Autozone, where they said the battery was dead. So we bought a new battery. Addy was pretty upset during this time-she just wanted to go home and be in familiar surroundings. She screamed the whole way home, and it didn't help that we sat through 2 cycles of a red light, before pretty much running the third one on the "orange" light. Oh well, we got her home and she was much better. She even enjoyed gumming a graham cracker :) What a day...


Showing off her puppy dog slippers

Then Friday morning came. We got up early to go to Little Lambs. Addy was very good, but wanted her paci almost the whole time. She sort of listened to the story, and then did very well with the craft. We traced her body onto a large piece of paper, and then decorated it to look like her. She loved playing with the pink and purple crayon and then with a piece of paper I cut off for her. Everyone there noticed how well she was sitting now - whole minutes even. She's been doing really awesome! She also has orange poop, which means.....she loves eating her sweet potatoes AND carrots! Finally we found something she likes. Then, while we were hanging out in the basement, she was sitting on my leg, and crawled her way onto her belly all by herself, without doing a face plant. Toby was just in front of us, so touching him encouraged her to go forward. And the most exciting thing of all happened. I was letting her play with my finger, when I notice something in her mouth--a little sharp corner of a tooth! You can't see it yet, but you can definitely feel it. I think it's the left bottom tooth. That sure explains the crankiness that I wasn't sure should still be associated with being tired :) Yea Addy!


Today was a very busy day. I spent most of it outside, watering the grass and trimming bushes. Josh and Addy also went and bought firewood from local boy scouts. They filled the bed of the truck, so that meant a lot of stacking wood for us! Josh is working on building a fire right now, I can't wait :) Addy was in a good mood almost all day - so cute! Still working on that tooth, but she won't let me look at it. She finished off her jar of carrots too! She's really getting those orange foods down. Well, I'm off to enjoy a night of reading by the fire. Goodnight!!

It's Done!! (Mostly)

The yard is looking great. It's nice that it will finally be quiet around here...well, construction quiet :) They put all the seed down last night, then came back this morning to concrete in the fence post. There is still a missing piece of fence until that is dry, so hopefully by Monday, we'll be all set. Now for all the watering.

Josh got his truck *fixed* (fingers crossed!). We charged his battery off of the Nissan, and got it going, twice. We'll see how tomorrow goes, but we may do the 50K tuneup/check a little bit early ;) Let's hope it keeps working.

Other than that, Addy and I had a pretty normal day. She was still cranky and wanted to nap quite a bit, but today she ate her cereal and about 5 spoonfuls of her sweet potatoes. We also let her chew on a graham cracker at dinner. She seemed to like it, and we were able to eat, so we will probably be continuing that in the future. Tomorrow is her first day of carrots-hopefully she'll like those too!

Addy loves to be naked baby!

Over tired

Today has been an interesting day. Addy woke up about her normal time and drank a bottle. Then, when she was hungry again, I made her some cereal. Instead of excitingly eating it up, as usual, she cried the whole time I attempted it. So I gave her a bottle and then she went down for a nap. I tried twice after the nap to give her the food, but she was still not interested. I tried to give her a bath, but she got upset halfway through that. She doesn't want to play with her toys very long either. She is being kind of cuddly, which is rare, so at least I am enjoying that :) And with all the napping, almost everything is unpacked already! The cute thing Addy has done today and did yesterday, is that she is discovering her hands. She looks at her palm, then turns her hand over and looks at the back. She is just studying it. So cute!

Josh came home early today. Instead of Addy and I going to vote, and then to pick up Toby this morning, (as was the plan) Josh had to take the car, because the truck wouldn't start this morning. So when he got home, we all went to vote. I looked up online where to vote, since our cards got lost in the mail, or so I thought. Apparently, we weren't registered to vote. The guy told us to call our old county to see if we were registered there, and we could go back by our old house to do so. But no, they have that we moved to St. Charles County, but somehow, St. Charles County says we can't vote here. So we didn't get to vote. We are hoping for landslide victories, so that our votes wouldn't have mattered as much. So then we went to pick up Toby. He was excited to see me for a little bit, then he was more interested in smelling everything. Then we dropped him off and went to a Mexican restaurant for dinner. It was slightly disappointing, enough that we probably won't go back again. Then, as we pulled into the garage, Josh broke the mirror on my car. It's not as bad as his car, but it did come off. I snapped it back on, and then taped it, just to be sure. Then, we checked out his truck. We think it is just the battery, and we are charging our battery jump starters to hopefully get it running again. So, all in all, it hasn't been a great day. But....

They did seed the grass today in the backyard. The wall looks awesome, but since its dark, you'll just have to wait until tomorrow for pictures! The fence isn't put back together yet either, so hopefully they'll do that tomorrow. But the basketball post is gone, which is really exciting in and of itself :)

Halloween Weekend!

I was going to put this at the end....but the most exciting news of the weekend - Josh and I are going to be an aunt and uncle....Addy is going to have a cousin! Josh's sister Stephanie and his brother-in-law Jon are going to have a baby in June! Congrats guys!


Happy Halloween everyone!

We had a very busy holiday weekend. On Friday, we left bright and early for Fort Wayne, dropping Toby off at the puppy hotel beforehand. When we got to Grandma and Grandad Gentry's house, we helped celebrate Maddi's birthday. We all walked through the woods in preparation for the haunted woods that we would have later in the night. Addy did her teradactyl voice for most of the time, and she just kept smiling :) During the party, Addy slept, while mommy and daddy scared all of the kids! Afterward, Addy woke up and laughed at all the girls in their facepaint. It was very amusing :)


On Saturday we went to Great-Grandma Huber's 80th birthday party. Addy was good most of the night, except for the sleeping part. She decided she wasn't going to take a nap for anything. But we did go trick-or-treating around Aunt Barb's house and got lots of goodies. She then enjoyed a sour stick (see above). She loved eating the sugar, and didn't mind the sour part.


Sunday, we ate and relaxed until it was time for trick-or-treating. We walked around Grandma and Grandad Gentry's neighborhood and picked up lots of treats. We went around with Aunt Ally and Aunt Maddi and had a blast. (Daddy was the fisherman, Addy was the lobster, and mommy was the chef.) We hung out until it was time for bed.


Monday, we went to brunch with all the grandmas and grandpas, after trying on the witch slippers she got for Halloween. Addy ate the lemons, which she enjoyed :/ Such a weird child sometimes...just like aunt Sarah.... Then we drove all the way home. Addy was very good in the car, but eager to get out too. We quickly unpacked, just in time for the Colts game. Since we were just in time, we decided to feed Addy her dinner in the basement. She was sitting in her bumbo seat, and kept resting her head on the side of it. At first we were confused, but she kept doing it to the same side. We looked for what she was looking at, and realized she was looking into Toby's room, trying to find him! We hadn't gotten home early enough from Indiana to pick him up from the puppy hotel, so he wasn't home. It was soooo cute :)

When we got home, we of course had to go and check out the construction in the backyard. Before we left, the wall was about waist high. Now it's above Josh's head!

Picture Time

Thursday was a busy day. We spent all day playing and packing up for our trip. Addy was doing something really funny though. We were playing with her mirror toy. Usually her favorite part is the green leaves at the bottom because they make noise. Once in awhile, she'll play with the ball in the lady bug. She also enjoys trying to pull off the bumblebee, which doesn't come off, but she tries to get it off anyway. Just Thursday, she discovered there was a baby in between the 2 bugs, so what does she do? She tries to eat the baby. She looks, then goes in for the kill. She did it a few times, and it was really, really funny. :) Now for some pictures:


Comb-over baby!


My ghost pumpkin hadn't been showcased yet....


Our new basement furniture I keep talking about.. :)


Our oversized chair that didn't fit where it was supposed to, but is awesome anyway :)