Big Girl

Our baby is turning into a big girl. She doesn't want to walk but she can sure climb. She will climb on anything couch, little tykes table, whatever she can get onto.

The other day we looked over and found this

she had climbed up onto the couch and then continued to climb onto the back of the couch and stand up. Luckily we were right there I can't leave her for a min. She loves to be outside. That is all she wants to do. When Tito goes out his dog door she cries because she wants to go outside too. I have been going on walks with a friend of mine and then we stop at a park and let our girls play. Addi likes the swing.


She also loves to be the one to walk Tito. She holds onto his leash the whole time.

She is finally starting to get some hair. I think I could put 2 little ponytails in her hair if she would hold still long enough.

Yesterday I got a glimpse of what sibling riverly would be like. Tito got a little chirping chick in his Easter basket. Yesterday he was playing with it when Addi decided she wanted to play with it, so she took it. Then Tito went up and took it back. They went at it taking the toy from each other for awhile until they were playing tug a war with it. Then Addi got mad yelled dedo (tito) and pulled his hair. We better start teaching these two about sharing and next time the Easter bunny will bring them the dame toy.

Easter Fun

This was Addi's last first holiday. She had so much fun. I think she could enjoy this holiday so much more because she is older and more mobile. On Saturday we had an Easter activity and Easter egg hunt at our church. Addi colored a pictured sat very nicely eating her banana bread and listened to the Easter story and even found a few eggs. She loved that she found things inside the eggs. She likes to take the stuff out of the egg and then try and put it back in again. She loves reeses peanut butter cups who can blame her they are the best. Instead of an Easter basket Addi got an Easter wagon. I found this wagon at a garage sale last summer for $1 so I painted it pink and ruffed it up a little and it made a cute gift for my little girl. Addi was so spoiled. I filled the wagon up with all kinds of fun toys and then grandma and grandpa Duncan sent her an Easter package with more toys and books in it. Even Tito got an Easter basket, but he wasn't to sure about it. We had to make a trail of treats up to his basket so he would even look at it. Tito always get weird about holidays at Christmas he hid under a chair the whole time. Addi looked so pretty in her Easter dress and I will post those pictures in another post. I was hoping to get some cute pictures of her in her dress with the flowers outside but it was windy and cold so we will have to try another day when spring decided it wants to come and stay awhile.

Happy Birtday Tito!

Tito is now 3 years old. Someone commented that they thought once you had kids you stopped treating your dog like one of your kids, but we didn't. We had a birthday party complete with party favors for the guests. Dede's family came with their new puppy Shasha and some of Jared's classmates that have dogs came. Tito loves the big dogs he thinks he is a big dog sometimes. We roasted hot DOGS and had smores instead of cake. So I did cut back a little because for his first birthday I made a dog friendly birthday cake. Here are some pictures from the party.

Our little cowgirl

Addi had a cowgirl birthday party with all of her friends last weekend. It was fun. My husband thinks I went overboard and spent to much time for a first birthday, but I had fun. I stayed up until 2 am the night before sewing her cowgirl outfit. I followed a pattern for the shirt but everything else I made up myself. The first shirt I made was way to big to I had to alter the pattern a little.
These are the invitations I made. Aren't they cute. This is what Jared thinks I spent to much time on. They say "She is cute she is sweet she is so much fun our little cowgirl is turning one!"
Here is the table. I made a chocolate cake, star shaped sugar cookies (they were suppose to be sheriff badges but I didn't have enough time to finish them), pigs in a blanket, chips and salsa, fruit, and cheese & crackers. I tried to have cowboyish foods that one year olds can eat.
The recipe for the cake is on my mommy creations blog and the recipe for the cookies and royal icing will be up soon.
I found the cowboy boots at a local thrift shop and thought it made a cute little center piece with flowers in them.
Addi loved that Dede came to her party and wanted to be with her the whole time. Addi wanted to grab the flame on the candle.
Notice her nice shiner she got just before her birthday.
Here is the birthday girl with her daddy.
Addi got a ball pit, rocking horse and a little people farm so these were the entertainment for the party. The ball pit was a hit.
Here is all her friends that came to here party.
Here is our little cowgirl. I also took some one year pictures of her in her birthday dress check them out here.

I'm slipping

I was doing so well in so many aspects of my life, but I have been slipping lately. First some of you may have noticed my weight loss ticker at the bottom and how it hasn't moved in a while. I was doing a biggest loser competition. I did great the first 4 weeks and lost 10 pounds and then nothing the next four weeks. I hit a little plateau and after not loosing anything for a couple of weeks I started to loose motivation. The competition ended and I even had less motivation. The only good thing is that along with that 10 pounds I lost a pants size. I need to loose another pant size to fit into some of my old pants and 2 sizes to fit into all my nice lucky pants I wore in college. I got married and over my first 2 years went up 3 pants sizes how sad. I am determined to get back down so I am joining another biggest loser competition which starts on April 1st if you want to join us let me know it is $20 and the winner gets all the money.
The other thing I have been slipping in is having a perfectly clean house. The showings on our house have started to be further and further apart making me less motivated to clean the house every night I really need to get back in the habit because I know my day is so much better when I wake up to a clean house and my husband is so much less stress when he comes home to a clean house and a nice dinner. Maybe I should get off my butt and clean while my baby is sleeping, but this is the only time I can do stuff on the computer without her pushing all the buttons.
So here is to new motivation. Wish me luck. By the time we leave Iowa I want to be 30 pounds lighter and the perfect clean freak wife.

Like baby like dog

Tito was our first baby. We got him just before our first anniversary. He was 12 weeks old when we brought him home, a whole 3lbs and so cute. He was just like a baby we had to help him learn to eat dog food and to sleep through the night. We had to potty train him and give him lots of love and attention. He went to puppy kindergarten and everything. It was great practice before having a real baby (but easy then a real baby). Then Addi came along 2 years later and she is our baby. Everyone said that the dog becomes just a dog after the baby comes but Tito is still like one of our kids. He is a great older brother for Addi and is very protective and loving, yet can still get annoyed at time by his baby sister. It really is amazing how much a dog is like a child. Friday was Addi's one year check up. The doctor weighed her, looked in her ears and in her mouth and then she got 3 immunizations and her blood drawn. Today was Tito's three year check-up and the doctor weighed him looked in his ears and mouth gave him three immunizations and drew his blood. The only real difference in the check-ups was that I had to pay for Tito's since he is not covered under our insurance. On April 9th Tito will be 3 years old. We are very glad that he has been in our family and hope that he feels the same way. I know Addi loves having him around. Tito is the first thing Addi looks for when she gets up from her naps and Tito is always so excited to play when he hears her wake up. Addi won't say mama but she says Tito all the time. They are similar in many ways. They are both small and crawl around the house. They are both loving and love to cuddle with their mommy. Tito even loves the same food as Addi and will wait by her highchair for her to throw some food his way. They both like to climb up on the back of the couch and look out the window and they both hate getting in the car. I am glad that Addi has her puppy to grow up with.

One year ago today. . .

our lives changed forever. Our sweet little princess was born. All though we weren't expecting her for another week or two we were thrilled. You never really know how a baby will change your life until you have one and then once you have them you don't really remember what it was like without them. Addi is our precious little girl and I don't know what we would do without her. She is sweet and loving, unless you do something she does like. Although she loves her mommy she is not attached to her. She never has had stranger anxiety. She reaches for strangers to give them a hug or will blow kisses to people at the store. Although she is small she can do a lot. She is not walking on her own yet, but she could if she wanted to. She is content walking while holding on to furniture and such. She is a climber and loves to climb up on the couch with Tito and look out the window. Somedays she is a handful, but we love her still. Happy Birthday sweetheart we love you more and more each day.