sweet and snotty

so as if things weren't already lousy for her..addie had to go and somehow develop her first cold. what a miserable week..and im just so helpless.

the best thing i can say about this cold is that it is making her so tired that she is actually sleeping - unlike the up-all-night teething hell that started this week off.

the sneezing and the coughing and the runny nose - somehow, they are all so much sweeter on her than they are on me. no really, they are all on me..all over my shirt and my face. lovely.

get better little girl. i love you but im not too fond of all this mucus.

brave no more

poor little lady...she has been such a trooper throughout most of this tooth ordeal...up until the last two days, the only signs she has shown were a love of all things small enough to fit in her mouth, an adorable amount of ear tugging, and a constant faucet of drool. now it is hitting her full force - her head is hot, and now its snot, tears, and vomit to go along with the drool.

i have to be honest, this was her face for most of the past few days, and somehow (without jinxing myself) she has managed to be back to her smiley happy self these past few hours. i know once i publish this post-she will start screaming again and i will only get two or three hours of sleep like last night...but it was worth writing, if only for me to remember this time tomorrow when she is screaming again.

its okay little girl. mommy hates pain even more than you do. you don't have to be brave, just get tired...dear god in heaven...get tired.

apparently..she wanted the real neil

so i wanted to have a family outing before greg left for NOLA...

things never work out the way i want them to..ever. greg was late, addie was cranky, i couldn't find the folding chairs, i couldn't find the carry-cooler, greg wasn't up for a picnic dinner, i wasn't up for arguing about something silly, we drove out of the driveway with addie's car door wide open, we got there and just set up "camp" right at the entrance, addie was cute for about a minute and then slept OR cried for the rest of the time....did i mention the bugs that i kept swatting off of her...

i can say that the best thing about the evening was the band. FOREVER DIAMOND is one of the greatest neil diamond tribute bands out there...and even though he was wearing a scary shirt, the singer sounded exactly like neil...and anything that remotely comes close to neil diamond is kick ass in my book. yes i said it. i love him. i love dancing to cherry cherry..i love fake dueting to you don't bring me flowers...i love that as i was singing along, old ladies were singing too. neil diamond makes everyone happy. even the lady who was strapped to her oxygen tank behind me had a blast...

so go ahead, knock him..just try to not tap your foot to a little cracklin' rosie. just try.

yes doctor...a tooth...is that bad?

adelaide 'toothy' jane

five months

height 26 1/2 inches 9oth percentile

weight 18 lbs 14.5 oz. 97th percentile

head 17 3/4 inches 97th percentile

you were brave today my little chickadee..tears for a bit after the shots and then a perfect angel...once again, more brave than mommy.

cinco meses! oh dios mio!

so today my little lady marks five months of perfection..well, maybe just existence...no, if i am really honest with myself...its five months of more than perfection. its another reality, another layer of life..she is five months of everything that IS. (do i sound crazy yet?)

here are five new things about you little ladybug..

1. you can suck your toes - and you get frustrated when you are strapped in your seat and can't reach them!

2. you just laugh with mommy...mommy doesn't even need to be tickling you or squeezing you and it is a good deep laugh...

3. you sleep from 10 at night til almost 6 or 7 in the morning...please don't change that just because you become 6 months old.

4. you are really turning now...in fact, if there is nothing stopping you'd just roll all day long which scares the heck out of mommy.

5. you have tooth buds..which are truly bothering you-and whatever you can get your mouth on, you start knawing away on just to ease the pain-poor little lady.

no wonder i started crying when i talked to the daycare director on the phone...you change so much and i don't want to miss anything.

you are so much fun..and i still love you even though you cried and screamed at the top of your lungs for twenty straight minutes today in the car...

feliz cinco meses...happy five months...now, whaddya think the doctor will say tomorrow?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMA!

We LOVE YOU!

We have surprises for you later!

friends again

we made up.

all is well.

BFFs again.

until next time that is...

mama said knock you out...

more like addie said it.

here are the new rules addie laid down last night.

1. when i don't want to cuddle...then i don't want to cuddle.

2. if you still want to cuddle...do so at your own risk.

3. by risk i mean-- i will take you out by any means necessary.

4. cut my nails more often if you don't like the consequences.

and most importantly, 5. don't blame me, blame yourself, im just a kid.

1 + 1 = 1

no, this is not the math that i am teaching my students...

but it is the math i was thinking about all week while my husband was away for work. it occurred to me that addie is a perfect mixture of greg and i...she even changes her look to sometimes be me, and then sometimes be spot-on greg. these two pictures were taken the same day...(of course by the time the second one took place it appears that addie has been in a baby gang fight with her scratched eye)

so i started a little list in my head...and i wonder how long any of it will last...

addie looking just like me...

like mommy

1. social butterfly

2. let's be honest here, looks good in red but doesn't wear it a lot

3. blue eyes, blonde hair (mommy's was natural once)

4. loves car-rides - or any kind of fast motion...

5. obsessed with milk

6. loves laughing until its almost time to puke

7. great shopper

8. talks all the time

9. great dancer

10. cried when Michael Jackson died

addie doing her best dad impression...

like daddy :

1. sleeps anywhere in any position

2. doesn't hear anything after falling asleep

3. cranky right before bedtime

4. totally chill unless mommy intervenes

5. loves making fun of mommy

6. loves the computer

7. LOVES to be tall

8. sometimes likes it to just be very quiet

9. great eater

10. is patient with mommy...

lil' miss independent

our little miss independent just loved her first fourth.

actually, she slept through every firework show we drove by on i-71 on our way home from a wedding. but next year hopefully she will be into all the pretty colors in the sky. i always loved fireworks and spent some quality time as an young pyro - and soon grew out of it.

our fourth was really celebrated on the fifth at my mom's pool complete with raft races for the boys and burgers with actual bacon cooked inside! you know, we try to keep it as close to the historical celebration as possible.

enjoy it now kid, cause i can just hear myself in the future, annoyingly repeating the story of the revolutionary day when (most of) our forefathers told off a bully and got a country out of it. if that's not a lesson in standing up for yourself, what is?

thanks for the country. and for the one day where wearing the flag as a tank top isn't tacky..just plain old cute.