Addi's one year stats....and a comparison.

Little Miss Addi had her 12 month check up yesterday, she is a happy healthy little one year old...and even happier that she didn't have to get shots due to her fever the night before....but little does she know she'll be getting those shots on Friday. Anyhow, she weighs 20 lbs 13.5 oz (46%) , is 2 feet 6 inches tall (78%) and has a head circumference of 46.8 cm (90%). I feel like she's much bigger than Natalie was at that age but when I compare them she's not that much larger...but she is wearing bigger clothes. At this age Natalie was in 6-9 month stuff, and Addi is currently in 12-18 month stuff,


One Year Stats:
Natalie 19 lbs 14.7 oz 2 feet 4 inches tall and 45 cm head
Addi 20 lbs 13.5 oz 2 feet 6 inches tall and 46.8 cm head.

So really Addi is only 1 lb and 2 inches bigger than Natalie with a slightly larger head.

Toddler funnies

Natalie has been cracking me up lately...but on Tuesday night she had me in tears.

She put on a cape and was running around the house with her arms out like she was flying, saying "I'm a superhero, I'm a superhero!" over and over, after about 20 trips around the kitchen she slipped and fell. From the other room we hear "oh I guess I'm not a super hero after all."

Where does she get this stuff?

Happy Birthday Addison!

My how time flies, I can not believe that it has been 12 months since I was jolted awake by contractions, with no idea that you'd be making your appearance a short hour and 7 minutes later.

This past year has been amazing, you have taught me so much, shown me that even when a heart feels full, there is always enough love to go around, that being a sister is an amazing joy for Natalie, that babies come when they are ready, and that one house can never have too much laughter.

You, my dear are a ham, you love to make others laugh, and get an special joy out of making your sister laugh. You are stubborn and have your mothers temper (sorry about that one), you HATE to wait for anything and love to do things yourself.

You are a joy to be around, and make people smile everywhere we go. You smile at everyone and beam when they smile back.

I can not imagine my life without you, you are an amazingly special little girl. Every day your daddy and I love you more, and you have your sister wrapped around your little finger. You have completed our family in a way we never knew possible and I count my blessings every day that you are mine.

I love you to the moon and back and wish you the happiest of birthday's today.

Things I love...right now

Besides the obvious, my kids, my husband etc. I am currently in LOVE with a couple things...and I thought I'd share them with you...my peeps. (yeah I know I'm way to old/white/lame etc to say my peeps but whatevs....and I get that I'm too old for that phrase as well.) I am currently SO in love with the Urban Decay Naked palette. I mean in LOVE. It has the most divine, soft, amazing colors all in one great little palette. I'd been coveting this palette for weeks, calling my local Ulta, but they were sold out. I was sad, then on Saturday while I was cruising through Macy's I look to my right and what do I see, an Urban Decay counter. Be still my heart, I beelined for it. I was knocking old broads out of my way, I get to the counter and what do I see....the palette on display. Surely it must be too good to be true, they're just teasing me, I'm sure when I ask about it the girl will tell me they're sold out. But no, no, when I asked about it she produced one, I almost hugged her. I slapped my debit card on the counter and then spied the eye liners. Uh I'll have one of those too. When all was said and done, I was broke but I had my Palette and that makes everything okay. A little overly dramatic...yeah whatevs! The second thing I'm currently in love with is the Tone Loc station on Pandora. If you're not familiar with Pandora...uh crawl out from under the rock you're living under and check it out. It's freaking awesome! Not only can you stream live music on your computer, but on your phone and on some Blu-ray players. Yeah, it's awesome. But just when I thought I knew all about the awesomeness of Pandora, I found a Tone Loc station. OMG I died. For over a week now I've been rocking out to Tone Loc, Salt-N-Pepa, TLC, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, Run DMC, NWA, Beastie Boys etc. It really makes my day so much better when I can be transplanted back to Jr High dances, summer vacations, and tape players. Oh the good old days. So I realize that my life is boring and that I shouldn't get quite so excited about these small things....but hey I'll take the excitement when I can get it.

March 2011 reading reveiw....uh I'm losing steam

So I've been busy lately and haven't been reading as much as I'd have liked, but I guess laundry and cleaning my house must take precedence over lounging with my book. So this month I've only read 2 books....sad I know. Since I was coming down from reading The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest, I needed some fluff to read, so I chose to read High Five by Janet Evanovich. It is the 5th in the Stephanie Plum series, and it was great, I think it was my favorite yet. It seems that the books have gotten a bit racier as they progress which is fun.

The second book of the month is Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen. Oh my goodness I can not say enough about this book. I was hesitant to read it since I don't always love the books that everyone and their brother is hyping up. But a friend passed it on and told me to read it so we could see the movie that is coming out in April. So being the super friend that I am, I obliged and began reading. Not even 1 chapter in I was hooked, like so totally and completely hooked. I barely put this book down over the course of the next few days...but again life got in the way and I finally finished it on Sunday. It was a quick read at only 331 pages, and took me just under a week to finish it, I loved it so much I'm toying with the idea of reading it again. The characters were amazing, the story was filled with action, love, humor, suspense and loss. It was the type of book that leaves you thinking and wanting more. I just hope the movie can do it justice and that the vampire kid they cast to be the main character doesn't screw it up. For those who aren't following my crazy train of thought, they cast Robert Pattinson (from Twilight) as the main character. I've just begun Hot Six by Janet Evanovich, and hope to get through a couple books in April, but with all the birthdays and parties happening in April I'll be lucky to get through 1.

Birthdays on the brain

Having two kids in the same month seems like a fine idea until you have to plan 2 birthday parties that are scheduled to happen only a couple weeks apart. And then you start questioning your sanity.
I know, I know you can't always choose the month your child is born in and blah blah blah, but seriously the issues of 2 parties in one month never really crossed my mind until I started party planning.
Addi is getting a big 1st birthday bash in the beginning of April, and Natalie is getting a kid party with all of her friends in the very end of April....holy hell mama's gonna be broke!
I actually postponed Natalie's party a week so it could hit a different pay period....oh well she doesn't know what day it is anyhow.
So no sooner did I get Addi's invitations in the mail, than I was ordering Natalie's invitations.
I'm SO looking forward to a combined birthday party next year!

Oh and I can't forget that my 30th birthday is just a short 2 weeks after Natalie's birthday party, I've told Dan he can throw me a party (so nice of me right), but that means 3 parties in a span of 4 weeks. Awesome!

Ahhh the joys of being a state employee

We now have mice running around shitting on our desks...as if having the Governor, and various other government entities shit on us wasn't enough we now get mice.
Freaking awesome....I wonder if it's in the budget to hire an exterminator?