Because it's my blog I can say this!

To all my family and friends,

Most of you know that I will be voting a Democratic ticket in the next week. This is how I believe not about how you believe. You can scream at me all you want, it will not change my opinion just like I will not change yours.

I say this because I continue to get all of these awful emails from you. I want to remind everyone that this is what our country is about having different opinions and voting. I am not enraged at all by your opinions but have found most of you are full of anger and hate for opposing opinions. I feel privileged to know and be loved by passionate people but do not let this election affect your physical health. Honestly, I feel some of you are going to stroke out if McCain doesn' win.

Love you all
and Happy Voting!

11 months old today!

Today was Addie's 11 month birthday! We have ordered birthday invitations and decorations. I spoke with Autumn about the cake. I can't believe that my little angel is going to be 11 months old! To think that last year she wasn't even here? I can't imagine a day without her. This is a picture of her in her highchair making her funny face. She makes it most often while eating! I realized that when I laugh and smile at her I squint my eyes so she has started closing her and laughing at us! She had mom, Jeremy and I in tears last Friday night while we were out eating!

This is what she is doing now:

• says, "mama" "dada" "Bella" "Anna" "no-no"
  
• she makes an "uck" sound which is look, book duck and sometimes quack. She has intial phoneme deletion (for my speech friends)
• imitates most sounds, like growling
  
• picks up her train and says, "bubububu"
• eats everything that I can make bite size, she has no concepts of biting things of yet
• drinks whole milk, and juice
• pulls up
  
• stands up anywhere that there is about a 3 inch elevation to push up
• plays on her knees
  
• squats
• screams hysterically when she is told "no"
• has a great concept of print and turns her books around when handed to her upside down
• covers her own head to play peek-a-boo
• claps with her cast kinda sad
  
• loves to crawl away fast when she thinks you are chasing her
• four teeth, two on top and two on bottom
• she has some hair?? maybe it is getting thicker but not longer?
  

This weekend we weren't really able to celebrate her 11 month birthday because she was super sick. She had a fever around 100 Friday and Saturday even with Tylenol. There was a lot of snot, tears, and drool. It seems as though she is trying to get more teeth. However, she is very congested and has a virus. There was also some yacking! Jeremy and I did pretty well with the yacking. I am hoping we are on the downhill slide of the sickness. Fever is gone!

New Creations by Mommy

I made this onesies with Kloee's name on it just like the Mouseketeers (sp?) used to wear, a red tutu with sequences and a Mouse Head band. She is going to be Minnie Mouse for Halloween.

I also made this Hog canvas for an auction for a great friend of mine. The hog is silver which is why it kinda looks funny!

Happy Birthday Uncle Nub!!!

Last Sunday afternoon, we went to Fort Smith for lunch to celebrate Uncle Nub's birthday! We ate at the Varsity Sports Grill. I had a cheese quesadilla! Yum yum!

We also visited the Toys' R Us and I got some things for my birthday and Christmas.

Playing in the Grass!!

Last weekend, it was nice enough to play outside. Here is Dad and I outside in the front yard (no dog poop) !!

Ummm I may have broken my arm!!!

For those of you who don't know, Addie has injured her arm. I picked her up from Anna's house on Friday afternoon and she had been awake about 45 minutes. Anna told me that she hadn't been using her arm since she woke up. She was giving to it when crawling. So I called the pediatrician and they said to take her to the ER. A long story short, no fracture according to the X-Rays but her alignment was off. They tried rotating it back into place but ended up splinting it after she refused to use it.
Today we went to the orthopedic doctor. Together we decided to cast her to be cautious. We had X-rays again. Alignment good and no fractures. However, he said her bones are not developed enough to see a fracture really. I told him I was concerned about the posturing of her thumb while resting and the fact that she isn't weight baring while crawling. He said casting it isn't going to hurt anything. So I said agreed. In my heart, I knew that it wasn't healed and I didn't want her to re-injure it. It is very embarrassing taking an infant to the ER and not know what they did! So we had a cast put on. We had a very positive experience even though the whole process was very long. Addie did an excellent job. So now she has a bright pink cast on for everyone to see!

Second: Maebrie's First Birthday!!!

After we spent about an hour at Allea's birthday party, we had our second party of the day. It was Maebrie's First Birthday!!! After Maebrie tore up her cake, I wanted a picture of the 4 of us. Addie reached in for a bite of cake and Maebrie wiped cake all over Addie's face!

First: Allea's Birthday Party

This weekend Addie celebrated her first friend birthday party. Allea turned 3! Allea goes to Anna's house with Addie and is a good friend of mine Annessa's daughter. Annessa went to UCA with me and is an occupational therapist, whom I have also worked with. In the above picture is Allea, Cameron (Anna's daughter and Allea's cousin) and Teagan (Andrea's daughter and Allea's cousin) with Addie.
This is Addie with Teagan. Teagan was born the weekend that Addie started at Anna's and it 6 weeks younger than Addie. Annessa and Teagan's mom, Andrea are sisters. I know that this is confusing but I talk about these people all the time so I thought you guys might want to see them.

Pumpkin Patch

After all the work was done for the homecoming dance, we just wanted to spend time with Addie. Everything is focused around her and we really didn't get to spend a lot of quality time with her this weekend.

There is a precious little couple in Centerton with a pumpkin patch, wagons, and a small maze. So we went there to get some pumpkins and take some pictures. Of course, my camera batteries died just as Adalynn was starting to warm up and have fun. Oh well, these are precious pictures of my beautiful girl.

Off to the Homecoming Dance?

For once there is a picture where Jeremy and I look decent and Addie looks like a rag muffin. We were off to chaperone the Bentonville Homecoming Dance. It was very exhausting but the kids were great! No behavior problems just tons of kids, wearing inappropriate clothes and dancing inappropriately. I am so not looking forward to teenage years.

At Homecoming!!

My mom came to take care of Addie while we prepared for homecoming. She brought Addie to the pep rally!!

Addie had fallen asleep in the car and was overwhelmed by all the students and the noise. This is her sitting on the turf inside the Athletic Complex before the assembly began.

Shopping Last Weekend (out of order)

Last weekend after Jeremy's family left, my mom and aunts came with cousins Susan and Jonah and we all went shopping. This was a super cute picture that my mom sent me. Sorry this blog is out of order but I couldn't pass up posting this picture.

Homecoming Queen

This is Addie in her Queen onesie that I made with matching bow and tutu. Since Jeremy is the Student Council sponsor and we had homecoming coming up, I wanted to make Addie a Bentonville Tiger outfit to wear. This was the trial run one evening. She enjoyed eating the toulle.

Putting out some Pumpkins

I have had these window clings for a while and decided that Addie would probably enjoy them. So we put them on the glass door and she can crawl across the living room and and the hard wood floors to get them. She is enjoying slapping and patting the pumpkins.














She doesn't look very happy here but it is a very funny picture of her holding her baby pumpkin.