Addie Jude on the Walker

My silly girl ..... she'll stand without support for long periods of time, but no first step just yet!

Just a few pics .... more to come!

Each looking in a different direction .....

Jacob and his cousins at his Curious George 3rd Birthday party!

His Indian "costume" he made at school .....

Me and Addie Jude on Thanksgiving at Mimi and Grandpas!

Update

Been a while! I have "mentally" blogged several times .... but just never turned on the computer. Alas, where to begin! We have been in Houston for 4.5 months and I'd say it's going pretty well. Before we moved, whenever I would tell people that we were moving to Houston, they would ALWAYS say that it is more laid back than DFW, nice people and bad climate. Well it's definitely more laid back than Dallas and has nice people and TBD on the climate. Ask me in two months! I'm praying the mosquitos don't carry little Addie Jude off. I feel like we've come really far in our adjustment ....... to take us back, we learned/decided that we were moving to Houston last year when I was eight months pregnant. It was a tough decision, but once it was made ... we were excited! My only request was that Addie was at least three months old before me and the kids moved. Speaking of Addie Jude, poor little baby girl was in the NICU for five days after being born .... she had some lung issues and some blood trapped between her brain and skull. It was a very scary time ..... she was intibated, lots of wires and tubes. I only have one or two pictures of her left in the NICU, I deleted most of them because I never want to see my baby that helpless again .... it was completely awful. We finally got to take her home and hit a few bumps with feedings and reflux ..... but this time we were seasoned veterans! Then, to speed this along to current time more quickly ...... Jason had to move to Houston ahead of us to start his new job and stay in an apartment when Addie Jude was 7 weeks old. So, I had a two year old and seven week old in a house that was up for sell ..... by myself (Jason would drive home after work Friday and leave early Sunday). If you enjoy your sanity, it is not recommended you try this ;-) Seriously though, that's up there with one of the hardest things I've ever done! Luckily we were out of the house in five weeks .... then we started the Summer Tour of 2010. Me and the kids lived with Jason's parents, visited Jason in his apartment and stayed with my sister ....... which took up 2.5 months. Then alas ..... we closed on our new house on September 15th! So at some point we figured what the hell .... along with the newborn and move, let's throw in a home remodel. So, to try and give you a mental image of our big move-in day ...... let me list all the people we had at our new house at the SAME TIME: Cleaning people (house was a mess!), Movers, Satellite Guy, Phone Guy, Granite Guy (to fix his mistake), Tile Guys (to fix their numerous mistakes) and Refrigerator Delivery Guys. Jason did a great job managing the circus .... I tried to drive the kids around and check-in to help. Man, we have adjusted a lot since then!



Back to current times .... Addie Jude is 9 months old and Jacob is three ..... and they are just beautiful! My absolute favorite thing to do is watch them play together. We still have to make sure Jacob "plays gentle" ...... but they each follow the other one around. Jacob loves Mother's Day Out and we frequent the neighborhood park often. Addie Jude is proving to be silly, just like her brother .....and I think she looks just like me! Red curly hair and all.



I could go on and on about my babies ..... but is anyone even awake after the novel I just wrote? I have so many pictures to upload .... but I keep getting an error message, I'll get around to it soon .... before my kids are in college!

Check out our adorable Sitter!

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I have been meaning to get him doing this on video for some time - finally got it!!

Updates ... Jacob Style!

Our move to Sugar Land ..... from Jacob's perspective:

Well we are finally settled in our house, I've been calling it "Sugar Land's House" ..... momma keeps telling me it's "home" - but I like Sugar Land's House better. Mommy thinks our new house is starting to feel like home ... but it's been less than a week. She LOVES that we get to shop at HEB. We go there quite regularly. Before "Sugar Land's House", I never knew what bed I was going to wake-up in ..... or who I was going to see. Momma seemed a little stressed out about what she called our "gypsy" lifestyle, but I enjoyed it just fine. I missed my daddy a lot though, won't let him out of my sight now. I had fun living with my grandma and grandpa .... I sure made a mess of their office! My cousin Kenzie put glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling for me, I love my Kenzie! Then I went to Aunt Holly's house ..... I went swimming and followed Alyssa, Regan and Emma around ALL the time. Mommy had to make sure I didn't make them late for school because I sure tried! Oh and speaking of momma, I sometimes call her "Katie" now .... she likes to correct me, but whatever ...... Back to Sugar Land, I'm playing soccer on Saturdays. I had to go in time-out once because I kept running over and trying to play basketball with boys my daddy's age that were 3X my size. For some reason everyone would just stop and stare at me, then I'd see mommy running at me like a mad woman. I really like soccer, but for some reason our coach expects me to sit still in-between the drills. Silly coach. Momma thinks she's crazy also and tells me to run in circles, so I do. Momma says I'm a natural! I start a Mother's Day Out on Monday, mommy seems both excited and sad -- but I'm just excited! Mommy says I'll be pee'ing on the big boy potty starting next week. She tried back in our old house .... but I heard her say something about her needing to be checked in to the looney bin. I think it was just too much with-out daddy around and having to pack up and leave the house for showings, etc. So, next week it is .... wish us luck!! My new sister Addie Jude is pretty cool. She sure likes to be held by mommy a lot. It made me jealous at first, but I got over it. Mommy always tells me what a great big brother I am. I love to help put Addie's paci in her mouth. Sometimes I try to sit on Addie, she's just so soft looking. But, mommy stops me. Mommy loves to watch me and Addie Jude interact, says it's the favorite part of her day.


My beautiful Addie Jude, taken today:

She's eating rice cereal, does pretty good.

Moving boxes are so fun .... for Jacob anyways. Mommy hates them.

Bumbo party!

She's a pro at tummy time.

These pics are older .... it's tough to capture her smiling with our camera, she's coming around to the flash .... but not in any of the below pics!

In our old house .....

The outfit is from Grandma Judy

Bath time! I can just stare at that face for soo long, love her!

My loves

Addie Jude is Here!

Addie's Bathroom (sorry, out of order!) .....

We've been so sleepy that we haven't taken out the camera much .... but here's what we've got of our beautiful little girl, we are so proud of her!

Addie's Room .....