44 weeks (Oct 1-7th)

Addie on the first day of her 44th week.

Izzy cheesin' it up.

Everything is done princess style at our house, even Halloween crafts.

 Princess Izzy

 Princess Ella

Addie and I cheering on the Huskers before I passed out for the night. I fell asleep before the second quarter. Sad!

 



Well I stayed home with Addie for three days of this week. The diarrhea didn’t get any better and the diaper rash was horrible. It had opened, weeping sores. She screamed every time I walked into her bedroom with her. She knew her pants were getting changed and it hurt like heck. We did lot s of baking soda baths, and lots of air drying. I took her back to the pediatrician because the one at urgent care seemed to be a bit of a moron. Dr. Anglim gave us another compound with an antibiotic in it and said we should go back on Elecare. NOOOOOOOO! Come to find out three other kiddos in her class also had the same thing. I will finish out the Elecare she gave us and then go back. We’ll see what happens.

Wednesday, Mark stayed home with the girls in the morning and I took the afternoon shift. He was telling me that he and Addie got up earlier and Addie was just talking away. Izzy pipes up, “She’s too loud, and I can’t sleep.” Mark replied, “Ok sleepy head, just sleep the day away.” He shut her bed room door. Addie proceeded to babble and soon enough, Mark heard, “It’s nooot worrrkinnnng! She’s too loud!” I got a kick out of how grown up that sounds. What a peanut.

After staying home with the girls for three days, Thursday was hard to leave them at daycare. I was a little teary eyed and Izzy kept asking what was wrong. She had gotten $4 from Mark a while back ago and she had them in her hand and said, “Here mommy you can have these to remember me by and not be sad.” That made me even more teary eyed. I sure love that little girl.

Mark took Iz to swim lessons on Tuesday and she went down the slide by herself. That is a huge accomplishment. Every week, she would climb the stairs and sit at the top of the slide, and sit, and sit, and sit. Then she would come back down the stairs. This time she did it all by herself. You should have seen how proud she was of herself. Yay Izzy!

On Friday, we rushed home after daycare to help watch the little neighbor girl. She is the sweetest little petit thing that doesn’t like to be somewhere unfamiliar. She cried and cried. She finally warmed up to me, but as soon as I would pick her up to comfort her, Addie would get mad. She didn’t like it that I was paying attention to someone else. My friend Heather came to help. She was a life saver. She made dinner and helped with Izzy. She brought her older daughter to play with Izzy. Once Livie went to sleep she was great and she was really easy to put to sleep. Boy how Friday nights have changed!

Hope yours was a good one,

Ariann

43 weeks (Sept 24th-30th)

Addie hanging with dad on the first day of her 43rd week.

The school is teaching the kids about the rodeo and they had cowboy day. This is Izzy belting out something, giving it her all.

 Cow-sisters!

 Izzy wanted to know if I had chaps.

Husker day at school! 

 

This was one of the days we let Addie air out her bottom and her and Cletus just hung by the door.

 

Monday of this week started out with a bang. It was bike day and I forgot. I had to hussle to drop everything off and go to get Izzy’s bike. Then I got back and they asked if I had food for Addie. Crap! No food! Off again, back to the house for food. It’s amazing I wasn’t late for work. This was a good indication of how my week was going to go. Ugh!

Addie got her first fat lip. She was still a little wobbly in the crawling department at the beginning of the week, and went over head first into the floor. Her tooth caught her lip and it even started to bleed. Poor baby! Now she is crawling everywhere like crazy and into everything. Let the sounds of, “Mom, she has my…..” ring throughout the Brown house.

Addie also got sick late Friday. She had a BM while she was sleeping and that is unusual for her. The next day she kept having runny BM’s. Let the diarrhea begin. I hope it’s not the spaghetti I gave her on Thursday (She loved it). I felt horrible leaving her for the day so Mark and I could go to the game. She was with Grandma D. so she was in good hands. On Sunday, the diaper rash had gotten so bad I took her to urgent care and they gave me a compound diaper cream to help with neutralizing the BM. Hope it works. Her butt looks like hamburger. Guess I’m staying home from work tomorrow.

On Tuesday, my good friend Jill’s dad passed away. He was a big part of all our lives. Always around and joking with us when we were at Jill’s house. I felt horrible that I couldn’t work it out to be there, but I surely sent my sympathy. Bob will be missed.

Hopefully things get better and we will talk soon.

Ariann

42 weeks (Sept 17-23rd)

 

Addie playing with the 42 week poster.

 Probably won't get another picture with the number of the week in it with her. She always takes it and starts playing with it.

 My little reader. Izzy loves books.

Izzy's friend, Jaycee, getting pretty like a princess. 

Izzy following suit. 

The girls watching cartoons. That was as much attention I could get from them for a picture. Cartoons always win out. 

 My baby. Getting so big.

 Izzy and Finn playing kitchen. Finn would be the perfect husband for Iz. He does everything she tells him to do. Poor Finn.

Taking a break from her crawling. It's slow going but she's getting it. 

And she's off....

 

It was another busy week of activities for Izzy. Swim, Dance, repeat…. It’s not too bad though. All the activities sure make the week go fast. Izzy, even enjoyed tap class this week. She wasn’t covering her ears. I’m not sure how excited she is about dance. Maybe we will do gymnastics and soccer next year.

On Thursday, Small Miracle had an open house and book fair. It was great to see the little things Izzy does in class. The books were great too. They started putting a lot of paper backs at the fair making it a lot more affordable.

My little Addie finally started crawling. She is still a little timid but making progress. She was 42 weeks and 5 days. One day older than what Izzy was.

My parents came down to help with the basement. My dad brought his friend Dean to help with the electrical. It is finally starting to come together. I’m so excited to have the extra space.

Hope all is well and we will talk soon.

Ariann