March 2013

Daddy went and got us all ice cream to enjoy.

 



 I can't wait until they become the best of friends and share a wonderful bond I never got to experience.

 

 

 Finally, we get to go outside.

 

Addie loved playing on the slide.

 

 

 Disney on Ice's second in place, Rapunzel.

 

 Alice in Wonderland.
 

Mad Hatter

 

 Capt. Hook

 

 Peter Pan

 

 Tinker Bell

Jasmine and Aladdin

Getting ready to help Rapunzel.

Holding the lantern.

A hug from Rapunzel...priceless.

 

Here comes trouble.
 

Love you.

 



The kids were playing with colored bubbles and one popped on Maia's face. If you look close you can see the green.

 





Bubble time....OUTSIDE! Jaycee, Finn, and Iz.

 



Time to dye the Easter Eggs. What a mess.

 

Jaycee came to help.

 



Showing off glitter fingers.

 



Masterpieces.

 



Lazy Sunday and sister is over playing with the big kids.

 



 

Bunny ears from the Bunny.

 



Izzy said she loved the Easter Bunny so, so, so, so much because he brought her Pink Shoes movie.

 



Found 'em.

 



 

Are they in here?

 



Addie just roamed around the yard.

 



My little pouter. We've seen this a lot this third year.

 



 

The man cave.

 



 



Oh, Miss Addie....I love you dearly but you are going to put your mother 6 feet under. The poor babe is sick again. She is back on antibiotics for 20 days (yes you heard me right, 20 days)! Then if no improvement we need to start looking at different things like auto immune testing. Well the 20 days past and two days later she was sick again. School called and she had a 101.2 fever. Ugh! So next step, lab work. Through all this though she is a happy baby that eats and sleeps pretty well. Thank the Lord Jesus for that blessing. Addie is getting her last two bottom teeth and the top are budding. The poor thing is drooling like a hound.

Izzy is as witty as ever. She graduated from Aquatyke II and is now in III. This little munchkin is swimming the width of the pool with face in the water and using her arms well. I always like to throw in a few "Izzyisms." Here they are.....

"Mom, I think my tummy will hurt tomorrow and I will wake up with the flu. I probably can't go to school."

We were late to swimming lessons again and I was ranting on the way. Izzy started singing her cute little "Tiny Turtle" song and asked if that song made me happy. I said, "Mommy loves that song." So we are making  our way to class and I start going off again about how class has already started so Izzy needs to hustle in and get her flippers. She goes, "Mom, I thought "Tiny Turtle" made you happy!" Boy, I just need to stop and look at the simple things that make life grand, like "Tiny Turtle."

Great re-invented words and phrases from Iz: "Learned it to myself," Punzel (Rapunzel), Oscipcle (Popsicle), "Just ready did" a.k.a. already did.

At the end of the month, Gamma, Izzy and I went to Disney on Ice. We had gone the year before, but this year she seemed so much more interested. All the princesses were there and she was in Heaven. While we were sitting in our seats a gentleman from the sound booth came over and asked Izzy if she wanted to help Rapunzel release the lantern into the air. She was quietly excited. She wanted more than anything to meet Rapunzel but she seemed very nervous. She did a great job and got a hug from the Princess. While we were there Gamma bought her a long braid to wear and she wears it daily now and we have to call her "Punzel."

He did it! Mark got the basement finished in time for March Madness. It looks great and he did it all on his own. The only help I gave was to keep the girls out of his hair...maybe I should say, "out of his way." We are thoroughly enjoying the space. The part I like best is having carpet to play on with the girls. There are going to be many great memories to come in that beautiful basement.

As for me I turned another year older this month. It seems I turned 35 and the wrinkles appear over night. I ran out to the store and purchased wrinkle creams with no care of how much it was going to break me. I didn't want wrinkles. Well, two weeks into it, nothing looks different. The wrinkles are still there every morning. Hmmmmm...........

For my birthday we made the annual trip back to GI for the horse races. This year we spent way more than we won, but it was a great time with friends and family. We got to stay one extra night in GI because a blizzard came through and closed the interstate. We started out and quickly realized we were going nowhere. I was actually really scared because you could feel the car sliding and we had no control over it. It was even worse because the girls were in the car with us. So Mark shot in between two semis, took the median and we headed back to GI. I will never attempt that again.

Easter came early this year at the end of March. We had a nice little Easter with Cletus catching the Easter Bunny leaving baskets in the morning on the deck. After opening the baskets we headed off to church, followed by a great local brunch at Heartland in Old Elkhorn. Lastly we went back and searched for the eggs the bunny left. Addie didn't really get to interested, but she sure loved being outside.

Hopefully warm weather is around the corner and you are all doing well.

Ariann

February 2013

 Snow Day! Time to watch cartoons!

 

 Our first snowman!

 

Izzy loves to be outside. I'm so thankful for that.

 

 Adding the final touches.

 

Izzy kept telling the snowman he was her best friend. Then as the days went on she would say every morning that she wanted to tell him bye before he melted. It sure melted my heart. Her first loss.

 



 Sledding time!

 

 

THESE WERE THE GIRLS' VALENTINE'S CARDS:

 

 

Things are slowing down just a little bit. I can say I like that. We are working hard on our basement and are ready for the extra space.  At the beginning of the month Addie started saying "up" with out stretched arms. She sure loves to be held.....all the time. Elmo is Addie's good friend. She loves singing and laughing along with him. She says Elmo very clearly and mimics the laugh of the talking Elmo we have.

She is starting to get molars on the top now too. Explains all the drooling and puting everything in her mouth. No wonder the kid is sick all the time. The second weekend, Addie got a high fever of 103 degrees. She got it on Friday and we didn't break the fever until Sunday night. She went back to school on Monday and then Tuesday she had a rash all over. She must of gotten Roseola. Then a week and a half later she got some sort of allergic rash. She had welts under her armpits, on her butt, on her tummy, wrists, ears, and ankles. Her eyelids were also swollen. It went away by that afternoon. If it's out there, this kid is going to get it.

As for Izzy she is doing well. I love the things she does, she is, and she says. The other day she was asking me if I remembered the girl with the curly hair. I told her I didn't remember. She was beside herself, "Mom you don't remember the girl with the curly hair?" I said, "Izzy who are you talking about? Lots of girls have curly hair." Izzy said, " Yeah, I curl mine too." And that was the end of the conversation. A few Izzisms are: hangaburger, just ready did (I already did)...I will think of more.

Izzy loves playing outside and I can't wait until Spring. A snow day is a good second. We did have a good snow day. The wind was calm and the snow was good snowman snow. So we made a snowmand and sledded in the the front yard.

At the beginning of the month Grandma and Grandpa D. made a surprise visit to Omaha. They went to daycare and hung out there for 3 hours. Izzy enjoyed having them there. Then Gamma came and stayed while Mark and I went to KC for continuing education. While my mom was there she took Izzy to her first birthday party. It was a princess party and Izzy dressed up like Snow White. She said she had a lot of fun.

Hope you are all doing well and I can't wait for Spring any longer.
Ariann

January 2013



 Just a lazy Sunday. Trying out my lighting haze on photoshop. What do ya think?

 

 Crazy hair. Love this girl.

 

 Hope it's easier to get rid of her paci than it was for Izzy. Addie was never really a paci girl until late. Pray for me!

 

Doing it air plane style.

 

 My little poser.

 

Playdate with Avery. Two adorable princesses.

 

 When we tell Addie to make the "Scary Face," this is the result.

 

Gamma and Pop Pop came to pick up their glasses they ordered. Here are the girls giving Gamma love before they left. Always nice to see them.

 

This is Addie's owie she got at school. It was actually at the end of the day and under my watch. She lost her balance in her winter coat and fell face first with her paci in. Made her bleed and everything. Poor baby!

 

 Izzy lining up all the Little People princesses. She thought it was pretty neat.

 

 Addie has really gotten into her books. Which is great because I felt I couldn't read to her as much as I did to Izzy in the beginning. Addie even picks out her favorites for me to read before bed.

 

 

 She loves her speghetti!

 

Growing up so fast.

 



Well, at the beginning of this month, Addie switched up to the toddler room. Yes, my baby isn't a baby anymore. She is not adjusting well at all. She cries all the time and is unhappy. But as the first week went on she started to love it. Thanks Ms. Pam for making the adjustment a little more tolerable. Now Addie waddles herself in there and right into Ms. Pam's arms.

Addie has also been helpful in getting dressed in the mornings. She has started putting her arms through the sleeves when I find the hole for her. It has been great.

In her new big girl class they are helping her to communicate. Although we are still getting a lot of "uh uh uh" when she wants something she is able to tell us when she wants "more please," because she can sign it and she also says "maaa maaa" for more. She is also waving and saying bye bye.

I would say the second week of this month (13months 2weeks)Addie has finally became the happy baby. She does a little better playing with herself and Izzy and doesn't need to be held every second (only every other). She is still congested and we are working on that with another round of antibiotics. It's really fun to watch her learn. She now puts up little spirit fingers for Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and is starting to do animal sounds. The best is "moo" and "ruff ruff." She's also getting her 15 month molars. This kid has always been a little early in the tooth department. She has been a little fussy with that and is drooling like a basset hound again.

As for Izzy, wel,l she's Izzy. The fun, witt,y little girl beyond her years. She says so many things that make me wonder how she thought of it.
A few car ride conversations were:
"Mom you know how Gamma always says that she wants to put a brick on my head so I don't grow up? Well I have to grow up so I can play all the time."
On our way home from swim lessons.......
"Izzy are you tired?"
"Yeah"
"Well how about when we get home I will read a story and then play with your hair?"
"Mom, that's a deal. You have a great idea."    Such a grown up way to answer.

One night Izzy and I were in bed reading a nightly story and Mark comes waltzing in, literally. He did some sort of hip shimmy and Izzy's response was, "Wow, seriously?" Sounds like a little teenager already.

Also she has been telling me that she's not mad at me when something happens and I say " Oops sorry." She responds, " It's ok, I'm not mad at you." Lastly, she tells me I'm breaking her heart when I get upset with her.

At swim lessons at the end of the month, I was watching Izzy sit on the edge and splash her hands in the water. I knew that with one more splash she was going in. Sure enough, she fell in. They always teach them to turn around and grab the wall if that happens and she did just that. At least she was listening, but she got a dirty look from me.

At the very end of this month I took the girls in to ENT because they have both been on 2-3 rounds of antibiotics and I wanted their adnoids looked at. Dr. Farrell didn't think that was the way to go yet and put them both on Veramyst for the next month. If Izzy's doesn't clear up in a month then he will take her adnoids. As for Addie he didn't think it was a very successful surgery at this time. So we will see in a month. I hope the steroid works, but I don't want to be on that forever too.

As for Mark and I we are doing well and are both in need of a well deserved vacation. Maybe in a couple of years. Ha!

Ariann