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!