Baby Kate Shower- August 1st

Addie and I hosted Tracie and baby Kate's NWA shower with friends and coworkers on August 1st with some help from our friend Lisa! We can't wait to see you Baby Kate only 8 more weeks!

Summer Update!!

First of all apologies to all three of you who actually read this blog! It has been summer and I have not been very diligent in posting! We started off the summer with a bang! Jeremy had inservice and I had began working seeing kids privately! I have been very busy with that more busy than I wanted to be! But summer is over and we made a little extra cash for vacation and such!

We traveled to Florida for our summer vacation and had a blast! We took 1500 pictures so we will not be posting those! But maybe a few here and there.

This week we started back to school! Addie is going to a new in home daycare preschool setup with 8 other children between 17 months and 3 years. She is one of the younger ones! It was a hard week last week but she is doing well or so they claim. Mrs. Lora seems really great and has a curriculum for the children to follow. I am super excited to watch Addie learn and grow this year! We will keep you posted with updates!

First Baseball Game

Last Friday night, we traveled to Springdale for the the Naturals vs.Travelers game! We had not been to a game but had a great time. Jamie and Matt were suppose to go but had a change of plans so they passed their tickets to us! Thanks guys!

If you haven't been you need to go! It has beautiful facilities! T-shirts, cotton candy, beer, food anything else you need at a game! It was Strike's birthday! So they had a lot of kid friendly things like the petting zoo was there! We sat with Alix (who also works with Jamie) and all of their work friends who had all bought tickets together! They were super nice and accepting of us and Miss Addie.

She made friends with all of the people around us and was able to run around a little bit. The stadium is very child friendly and has a playground in the outfield, a grassy area to sit in the outfield, and an outdoor restaurant setup with picnic tables.

18 Month Check Up, Update and Ear Infection

Addie turned 18 months old on May 26th!

Things have been so crazy with the end of the school year that I have not had an opportunity to post. We have big changes for summer. Daddy attends a professional development next week at the UofA , it has a nice stipend so Mommy said he could go. He finished up the 2nd portion of his National Board yesterday with a four hour long essay test. Please pray that he passes because it is a HUGE pay raise for us! For the summer, Mommy will working in Decatur and Gentry on Monday and Wednesday, seeing both school kids and some private kids from school that wanted summer services. That turns into extra money for debts and fun stuff like vacation. On Tuesday, I will be working for a friend that has a clinic right here in Centerton. Jeremy and Addie will be spending these days together. On Thursday and Friday, I have enrolled Addie in Gymbo classes at Gymborre. She will be going to Art and the Play and Learn time.

These are the things that are coming to mind right now that she is doing:

• CLIMBER!- You are very adventurous! You can climb on top of the dining room table, fireplace step, back of the couch, and just about anything else!
• EATING!- Not as good of an eater as you once were. You are enjoying "dip, dip" which is ketchup. You are good at staying hydrated and drink very well. Sometimes you request "Sweet Tea and Pepper" No I do not give these to you but sometimes you steal a drink of Mommy's!
• SLEEPING- Well I guess we all have our battles and this is one I have not chosen to fight! When you sleep all night in your bed, we are super excited; when you don't, we go get you and you sleep with us.
• TALKING- To have a mom that is an SLP, most of the time no one can understand you! But you do have excellent vocabulary. You enjoy naming all the people in the room and the animal sounds. You say no in the sweetest voice ever. However, you all but refuse to ever answer yes. You have started a grunting phase which is making your dad a crazy person.
• GROSS MOTOR- I guess your climbing ability is your big jump in this area. I am still concerned about your feet turning in. We have an appointment on Friday with a podiatrist.
• COGNITIVE/LANGUAGE- I am so amazed at what you understand. For example, tonight I said I want to see that paper and you just brought it over to me. You are trying to count to three. You can identify and kinda name these body parts: head, hair, ear, eye, nose, mouth, tongue, beard, belly, arm, finger, leg, knee and toes/feet. You will do the following activities when requested: dancing, marching, fast feet, circles, swimming, jumping (which is also gross motor). You love to identify objects and who they belong to, you have began sorting all the laundry by Mommy, Daddy, and Addie
• GAMES- Your favorite has to be chase and hide and seek. You are enjoying your shopping cart and love to push it around the house and place all your items on the table and then check out! You kinda resemble a bag lady!
  
• OUTSIDE- You are loving your backyard. You enjoy playing in the water. We are going to buy you a sand and water table but haven't yet. Your firetruck is out there, lawnmower and a big basket of outside toys. In the front yard, you love the rose bushes and enjoy watering all of our plants. Checking the mail with Daddy is another favorite.
• 18 month Checkup- You went to see Dr. Harmon today and got your first MMR shot. He seems to think that you feet are going to correct themselves. He looked in your ears and apparently your allergies have turned into an ear infection. This is your first one in 18 months. You have an antibiotic for 10 days hopefully, that will take care of it. You don't have to go back until you are 2!

We are so proud of you and amazed by your learning everyday!

Finishing Up School!

We want to wish our precious girl a Happy 1/2 Birthday!

She was 1 and 1/2 years old on May 26th!

We have been super busy with end of the year so I am hoping to
get caught up this weekend with a big blog about all that she is doing!

Our family always enjoys our summer but we have lots of transitions
to summer: work schedules for Mommy, week long science inservice for
Daddy and National Board Testing for Daddy.

Please pray for Addie and us as we change scheduling and move to a new
routine for the summer!

Yeah Kris Allen!

We had a nice surprise visit from Grammy this week. She had to come up and do a reset for deodorant with her friend before the shareholders meeting. So she came up Tuesday and worked from 10pm to 4am! YUCK. Addie went to Anna's and then Grammy came to pick her up around lunch. We were so thankful for Grammy this week because Addie had a fever and diarrhea and just wasn't herself so Grammy spent the rest of the week here keeping Addie for us. At first we thought it was teeth but then her fever got pretty high. I am pretty sure she had a bug. She seems to be feeling better. She also seems to be developing some 2 year old fits. There has been lots of screaming, crying and tears and some really good acting on her part as well.

So we were all watching American Idol and super excited when Kris won! I put my hands up and said Yeah! Addie started mocking me so Mom got this picture of us. I look kinda silly but Addie looks precious!

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