Happy Halloween!

Its Addi's first halloween. I made this fun little dress for her. she wore it to our BBBS halloween party where Dede won second place for the pumpkin she carved. Stay tune tomorrow for our fun family halloween costumes.
Here are some pictures from our BBBS halloween party. I didn't get a picture of the prize winning pumpkin.

Wilson's Apple Orchard

Today we went to Wilson's apple orchard with play group. I really just went so that I could take some pictures of Addi in her apple dress that I made her. So here are some of those pictures.






By the end Addi was ready to go home and Jacoby was more interested in the basket than the camera.

Temples, pumpkins, and car crashes

That is what are day was full of. Today we went to Nauvoo for ward Temple day. On our way up there is was very foggy and we couldn't see very far in front of us and then when we crossed the Mississippi river into Illinois all of a sudden it was bright and sunny. We left Addi with the sitters at a near by church so that Jared and I could enjoy the temple together. Addi is always very good for other people so I don't worry about her to much anymore when I have to leave her. Addi loves to see the temple or at least that is her favorite song ("I Love to See the temple" from the LDS children's song book)and I know this because every time I start to sing it she gets a huge smile on her face.
After the Temple a bunch of us with kids stopped at a pumpkin patch on the way home. It is a very fun pumpkin patch with lots of things for kids. Addi was a little to young for most of the things but she did like playing in the giant sandbox of corn kernels. When we got home Jared when to help the lady he works for rake her leaves and on the way home he was rear ended by a SUV that then proceeded to drive away (more details in the previous post). So our day was full of all sorts of entertainment how about your?

Stupid Mean probable drunk people

Jared was on his way home tonight from raking Kathy's leaves (the lady that he works for sometimes)and was stopped at a stop light on the highway by our house when someone in an SUV rammed into him going ~45-50 mph. Jared said he saw it in his rear view mirror seconds before he hit and the guy didn't even slow down. As Jared got his phone to call 911 he notice the guy backing up. He thought that maybe he was just trying to get off the road, but no the guy just drove away. Despite the fact that he just bashed up our car Jared could have been really hurt. The force from the SUV hitting our car had caused our car to run into the car in front of it. The guy from that car tried to stop the run away driver and almost got hit. To bad for the stupid mean driver that his front license plate fell off in the crash so there was a police officer waiting at the guys house when he got home. The people behind the SUV stopped to help and said that the driver of the SUV was swerving so he was probably drunk especially considering that there had been a Hawkeye football home game that had recently ended and for those of you that live or have lived in Iowa City before know that people start drinking at like 6 in the morning on game day.
Jared thankfully still smiling after the accident.
Look at all that crap we pulled out of the car.

So since Jared's car was totaled earlier this year (click here to see that story)we are now with out a car. We don't know if the other guy has insurance or not , but I am betting not since apparently he doesn't even have a drivers license. I am just very glad that Addi was not in the car at the time and that Jared walked away from the accident with only some whip lash. I can only imagine what would have happened if he had taken his scooter like I wanted him to.

Mommy Creations Giveaway

SO I wanted to be like everyone else in the crafting world and host a giveaway on my crafting blog Mommy Creations, so if you want to check it out maybe you could win one of my fabulous homemade gifts for yourself.

I'm a big girl

Addi Always thinks she can do things that we can do like type on the computer, read our book and feed herself, so one day I let her feed her self.
see mom I can do it










all done

Poor Baby

My baby is sick. Sunday night about 30 min after we put her to bed Addi woke up screaming and nothing would calm her down for 45 min. Finally we calmed her down a little by giving her a sock to play with and turning on the tv. That didn't last long about 5 min later she was screaming again and we didn't know what to do. Then she threw up her dinner (peas and applesauce) all over. I didn't know if she threw up from crying or if she was crying because her tummy hurt. After a bath and a few more screaming episodes we got her to sleep. Then on Monday she had a fever and this is what she looked like most of the day.
It was so sad I didn't know what to do for her except give her Tylenol. She spent most of the day in mommy and daddy's bed watching PBS and sleeping. She liked cuddling with her blankie and teddy bear.
On Tuesday she seemed to be doing better more active but still cranky. Then when I was feeding her I noticed puss coming out of her ear so I called the doctors office. It was after hours so I got the triage nurse and she told me to take her to the insta care. Well turns out that because our doctor is not on the insta care's list our insurance wouldn't cover it. The insta care is associated with the university and our doctor is at the university so I don't know why she wasn't on the list. Anyways in short we ended up at the emergency room. We got an antibiotic and some ear drops.
She seems much better today but she does not let me touch her ear and she hates the ear drops, but no more fever. She is also a lot more payful and even found Tito sleeping under the covers.

Happy Birthday Jared!

Saturday was Jared's 28th birthday. We had a few friends over for his favorite dinner enchiladas and then gooey chocolate cake. I made the same cake I made for our anniversary with a few modifications. I had a slight problem with the decorating of the cake. The frosting I made was thinner than canned frosting so I just pour it over the top of the cake which works great except for when there is a slight crack in your cake. I poured the frosting on and it seeped into the crack causing the crack to spread across most of the cake. I tried to fix it but that didn't work to I worked around it.
I turned the cake into a Zion nation park which is where we went on our honeymoon. I turned the crack into the narrows and used reeses to make Angel's landing and hidden canyon. I made weeping rock coming off the side of the cake and the made emerald pool of to the side. I think it turned out pretty good for a last minute improvise.
For daddy's birthday Addi worked on saying dada all week and Jared said when they were at the store it sounded like she said it. Then at daddy's party Addi pulled out a surprise. She pushed up on her hands and feet. I thought she was going face plant it.
So Happy Birthday Jared you are an awesome husband and a wonderful father. Addi and I don't know what we would do without you.

six month stats

Addi had her 6 month doctors appointment on friday and here are her stats.
Weight: 15.27 (30%)
Height: 26.57 (74%)
Head: 17.42 (89%)
She has a big head compared to the rest of her, but that just means she is going to be smart like her daddy. She is already really smart. She knows her name along with who Tito, mommy, and daddy are. She has learned that when she wants to be picked up she reaches her hands up at you. She knows how to blow her nose all over daddies scrubs. She babbles on and on like we know what she is saying. We are working on saying daddy for daddy's birthday on saturday. She likes to watch seaseme street and play with her toys and she is now sort of crawling backwards.

First attempt at making Addi's clothes

Today I made a dress for Addi out of a long sleeve T-shirt I got for $3.
before
after

Teething woes and a new tooth brush

My baby must be teething. Addi is usually a pretty good baby. For the most part she only cries if she is hungry, poopy or sleepy. I can handle all of those things pretty easily, but with these random spats of out right crying I don't know what to. The other night she just woke up screaming and it took me a half hour to calm her down. She will start crying randomly during the day and she wake up several times a night (she usually only wakes up once at 5 or 6 am). Jared says she has to tooth buds but no teeth have peeked through yet.
Jared being the soon to be pediatric dentist that he is wants to take nightly pictures of her mouth to observe the changes as they take place. Addi doesn't like this idea so much, but she loves the new tooth brush daddy brought home for her tonight.
We gave her the tooth brush and she knew exactly what to do with it (it helps that she puts everything in her mouth). Jared tried to take the tooth brush to brush her gums and she did not like that and started crying.
I thought that maybe it hurt her to have her sore gums brushed, but she stopped crying as soon as Jared handed the tooth brush back to her.
She just wanted to do it herself. She takes after her mother. Some of my first words were "me do".

I wish I had my camera

It is days like today that I wish I had a nice compact camera to carry around in the diaper bag so that I had it whenever I needed it. Today Dede, Addi, Tito and I went to the dog park. Addi was in the stroller and although this was not her first trip to the dog park it was the first time that she was sitting in the stroller looking out and not in the carseat on the stroller. She loved the all the dogs. She was sitting up trying to grab at the dogs. One particular chubby boxer puppy apparently loved her too. This puppy jumped up to the stroller and gave Addi a big slobbery kiss. It was hilarious and I wish I could have taken a picture. Addi didn't mind and wanted to kiss the puppy back. Dede thought it was hilarious and couldn't stop laughing. We had to block the puppy from trying to jump back up on the stroller. Dede was blocking the puppy and the puppy got slobber on her pants. Dede started to freak out. I thought she might throw up. Dede did not like the dog slobber. It was funny when Addi was the one getting slobbered on by not so funny when it was her. Well at least not funny to her, but from my point of very it was pretty funny. Dede was freaking out flaring her arms and running around. The other dogs thought she was playing and started to chase her and since she was afraid of there slobber this caused her to freak out more. Who knew Dede was such a girly girl when it came to dog slobber on her pants. To avoid any more slobber issues we went over to the small dog area at the park. There was only one other dog over there, a puppy that did not want to play with Tito. So Tito had the whole area to run free. For such a little dog Tito can get running pretty fast. As he was running across the fields all of a sudden Tito flipped in the air a couple of times landing on his feet and kept running. It was the coolest thing I had ever seen my dog do and I don't even think Tito realized what happened. I think he was going too fast and hit a hole in the grass stopping his front feet but his back feet kept going right over his head. Not that I could have been expecting something like that in enough time to get a picture but it would have been a cool one. So sorry no pictures of our hilarious trip to the dog park but I hope I painted the same picture in your head that I have in mine.

Tito's new hair cut

Tito came in this morning from playing in the backyard and this is what he looked like.
He had found some burrs and managed to get them stuck all over in his hair. Since it had been a couple of years since Tito had been to a real groomer (I usally give him his haircuts) I called the groomer at our vet and they were booked for 2 weeks, so It was up to us to fix Tito up. Jared pulled out all of the burrs and I gave him a hair cut.
Here is all of Tito's hair. It had been awhile since Tito had a short haircut. It isn't really the best timing for a short hair cut considering it is starting to get cold but it we left it long he would just manage to get into some more burrs. Also when it snows if he has long hair the snow sticks to it and the longer he is out in the snow the more covered he get. Tito will just have to where a sweater which he does in the winter anyways.
Here is Tito's new look. I did a fairly good job if I do say so my self and it was a lot cheaper.