Soccer Mother of Five

No I am not talking about the new rep. VP nominee, although I would like to know what some of you think about that, I am talking about me for two weeks. A week ago Friday my aunt called and asked me if I wanted a free trip to Utah. She was leaving on a cruise that following Tuesday and her babysitter had fallen through so she didn't have anyone that could watch her kids for the full 2 weeks. Her oldest Tiffany was starting college that week and she didn't want her to have to miss anything, so two days later I was on a plane to Utah. So I have 5 kids at the moment 4 of my cousins and Addi. It isn't that bad since they are ages 4, 8, 12, and almost 15. The oldest 3 are at school all day so it is just me, Addi, and Jake. We watch movies and play Go Diego games or at least Jake's versions of the games. After school is when things get a little crazy at least on Tuesday and Thursday. All the kids are in soccer and the girls both take dance twice a week. So, I take one to dance and the older ones to soccer, pick up the first from dance, go back to soccer practice to get the other two, and then race back home so that they can change and go to mutual. Crazy! I don't know when to make dinner. The other days we play games or watch movies in there cool theatre room. Yesterday, we went to the Zoo except I had 8 kids because m sister Baylee, my brother Mark, and his cousin Josh were with us. I will post those pictures in another post because there are so many. Addi is liking it. I think because she has lots of people that want to pay attention to her and she was able to go stay at grandma's without me twice. She is making bank as well. We saw Grandma Peggy and she bought her clothes then when she stayed with grandma Susan she got a carebear and a baby doll. Jake is really funny with Addi. When we are in the car and Addi starts to cry Jake starts sing don't cry wealmost home or the two lines he know of twinkle twinkle little star. Once I told him she was crying because she was hungry and Jake told me that they had cereal and waffles at home.
Addi not so sure about the airplane ride
Addi and her cousin Kayson at grandma Peggy's house

Jake every morning

Jake and Addi playing
At the zoo

I love. . .

My daddy, my puppy, my teddy bear and oatmeal (especially when mommy adds bananas)!
The other day Addi kept grabbing for her teddy bear when I was getting her dressed so I decided to get some pictures. Addi is at a fun stage. She started to grab at things, so she actually plays with her toys. Addi also gives kisses. Big sloppy open mouth kisses. She probably does even know she is giving kisses she just puts everything in her mouth. Whether not they are real kisses she does love her daddy. Today Jared called us on his lunch break and I put the phone up to Addi and she started smiling and talking when she heard her daddy. Addi is also to the point where she will interact with Tito. Tito has been trying for months to get her to play with him, but now that she does Tito doesn't know what to do. Addi grabs his hair or ears and Tito just freezes hoping she will let go. I have stated earlier how Addi loves to eat baby feed and how she is really good at eating out of a spoon, but apparently this morning she forgot how to eat. She got food everywhere and then would stick her hands in her mouth and wipe her hand all over her head and face.

Kalona Photoshoot

We went to Kalona, Iowa last night. It is this little Amish/Mennonite town outside of Iowa City and it has all sorts of shops. Well don't go on monday nights. Everything closes early on Mondays so we just walked around the town and took pictures. Jared got a lot of good flower photos and of course we took lots of photos of Addi. I don't think Addi likes the new camera because we are always making her pose for pictures. Her is a slide show with a sample of the 500 pictures we took (sometimes we get a little trigger happy because it takes pictures so fast and it is digital so we can take how ever many photos we want). And despite what the video a few post down shows Addi does think that daddy is funny. In the pictures of her on the bench she is laughing at daddy who is jumping up and down it was funny.

New Camera

Yeah, I got a new camera. The last digital camera I had since high school and I didn't realize how much better camera have gotten. My last camera was a 3 mega pixel camera and my new one is a 12 mega pixel camera. I got the cannon rebel XSi digital SLR camera now I feel like a professional even thou I am not quite to that level. I have been reading a lot of books of how to take good photos and I am going to take some photography classes so I can take better pictures and not have to pay to get my daughters picture professionally done. Here are some picture we took this weekend with the new camera.


Isn't my baby the most beautiful baby in the world.

Addi developments

My baby is getting so big. Every time we lay her down she flips over on her tummy with ease and sometimes she even stays there for awhile without getting to mad. She eats baby oatmeal and bananas and will be getting squash in the next couple of days. She loves big girl food. She scarfs it down like there is no tomorrow. Last night I accidentally made way to much cereal with bananas added and I thought I would save half of it for the next day but she ate all but the very last bite. Sometimes I think she would rather eat real food then nurse or get a bottle. She likes to still the spoon and feed herself as seen in the picture. Addi is so big that yesterday she got a bottle and she held it herself. With the development of rolling over and eating big girl food has come sleeping longer. About a week after she started rolling and eating she started sleeping 8-10 straight waking up for 10 min and sleep another 2-4 hours totaling 12 hours. With the exception of a couple of nights she has been doing that for almost 2 weeks. Now if we can train mommy to stop waking up in the middle of the night. We are still working on the nap thing, but she is starting to take longer naps about 2 45min-1hr naps but sometimes she will take one 2 hour nap. I thought they weren't suppose to do that until they were toddlers.

The newest development is drinking from a cup. She likes to drink out of a cup and she does pretty good with me helping her. I got a sippy cup and gave it to her and she drank a little bit and then spilled the rest all over her.

Summer coming to an end

Is summer over already? Dede and I hadn't even been swimming yet this summer and school is starting on Monday, so yesterday we went swimming at an outside pool. It was a pretty cool pool. They had 2 water slides, a water pad with water shooting up everywhere and a nice little kid area. Addi liked the pool and we even ran into some friends that watched her while I went down some slides with Dede.

Funny Mamma