Sweet soothings

I'm writing this mostly for myself so I can remember later, but thought you might enjoy it too. Addison does the cutest thing when she is tired and trying to sleep. You have to keep in mind that her arms don't stretch far beyond her head yet at this point. So, what she does is takes the back of her hand and rubs it against her head. It's odd and cute all at once. I don't know if she'll keep doing it once her arms grow a little and she gets more control of her movement, but for now it's cute.

Catching up!

So much has happened in the last couple weeks. I'm not even sure where to start. I'll just share photos and stories along the way. This first one is just too cute not to share. Troy picked flowers for every one to put behind our ears. Here's Addison showing it off:



Here are some pictures of Troy's big boy room. I got some wall "stickers" that he loves. He's very proud of them. You can also see his Mickey and Friends night light in this picture too.


These are smaller characters, but he loves them just the same. It only took him a couple minutes to figure out that Donald Duck is missing. Have I mentioned how observant he is?


Here he is showing off his new group of friends. He has Mickey, Goofy, Donald, and Daisy. Next on the list is Pluto and Daisy, which will come with our next trip to the mall. I'm not sure where he'll sleep once we have them all, but he doesn't' seem to mind.


Last weekend we decided to take advantage of the great weather and head up to M.C. for the beach. I always forget how much I love the lake and miss the beach until we're back there. Troy really enjoyed himself too. At first he stayed away from the water and was content to build sand castles on the shore, but once he gave in to his curiosity we couldn't get him out. He had a blast!! He even got down on his stomach and "swam" on the sand bar.




Addison had fun relaxing under our umbrella too.


Now that we know it was such a hit, we'll definitely be visiting again.

Addison has been a lot of fun as she's developing her personality. I can also tell I'm going to enjoy dressing my little girl. This little skort was too cute not to capture on film.


And here she is hanging out with her great-grandma "Guppie" yesterday.


Uncle Nick and Anna came in for a surprise visit from Vegas. Unfortunately, we didn't get a chance to get a picture with them. Our visit was interrupted by a surprise visit to the E.R. Yep! Troy's first trip. Troy was running around the corner, tripped on his own feet, and dove head first in to the corner of the wall. With the way he runs around a million miles an hour, I'm surprised it took this long for us to end up in the E.R. It was terrifying, but he's fine. He cried really hard the whole way there. I'm not sure if it was the pain, the blood, or the ice pack on his head that bothered him the most because once we saw a nurse he turned in to his normal flirty self. He was smiling the whole time she was wiping the blood off his face. A little numbing agent taped to his forehead and he was back to his old bouncy self. Luckily the cut was straight up and down and they were able to "glue" it back together instead of using stitches. I was not looking forward to shots in the forehead and the whole process. I think it scared all the adults far more than Troy. He seems to be doing well with it all. Here he is showing off his new war wound.

The doctor said it will be red for a while, but by the time he's 6 you'll never know it was even there. I love technology!

That's the latest from our lives. Hope every one is doing well!

Piggy Bank

Let me set the stage... we're in the basement doing laundry. Troy is very excited to find a penny. He LOVES putting money in the piggy bank right now. As we're getting ready to go upstairs, he says "No poop". Any time there is an unprompted declaration like that, it means just the opposite. So I pick him up to go upstairs and change him. As I'm wrapping up the diaper change he looks at me and says, "Where the penny go?" He was balancing it on his nose minutes before so I figured it rolled off and he couldn't find it. I responded, "I don't know. Where did the penny go?" With lips smacking he says, "Yummy" and points in his mouth. I do a quick sweep to make sure it's not still in there or stuck in his throat. I proceeded to ask him if he swallowed it, which he of course responded he did. I finish up the poopy diaper, get him dressed, and ask again. "Troy, where did the penny go?". In sweet toddler voice he says, "I ate it!" Yes, we have a human piggy bank on our hands. Tim and I have both told him several times since then that he's not to eat any more pennies. They're yucky. Hopefully that's the end of his unique savings methods.

Just chillin'

The weather has finally cooled off around here. We had a pretty laid back weekend. We hung out at Grandma and Granpas on Friday and Saturday for round 2 of the garage sale. The cooler weather made it nice. It's interesting the people you meet. The most 'interesting' thing from the weekend, though, is Troy's new best buddies. Grandma had gotten him a dancing cow and puppy, which he didn't seem to like. He wanted us to play them, but wouldn't go any where near them. Grandma decided to put them in the garage sale. Over the course of the 2 days, Troy retrieved them. Now he won't let them leave his side.

Sunday we went to a birthday part for Lilly (Troy's girlfriend from daycare). There were a lot of kids there ranging from 3 months to 5, so Troy had a lot of fun. He really likes Lilly and is constantly asking to go play with her. We've had a couple play dates, but mostly they are just friends from daycare.

This week starts the fall session for daycare, so he'll be happy to be around his friends again. Other than that, there isn't much going on here.

Hope every one is doing well.

Addison is 3 months old!

Wow, the time flies by. As you can see, she smiles a lot...


Loves her hands...


And she is fascinated with her brother...

As promised...

Here are some pictures of Addison.







You can't tell from the photos, but her hair is growing in pretty dark. It might have a touch of Auburn in it, but I think it'll be a little darker than Troy's. I think she is going to have hazel eyes, like her Daddy.

Troyisms

A little background: Troy calls all things sports 'Go Cubs' (even if it's not baseball). He also has this really cute "Gagone" that he does along with the 'all done' sign language sign. So last Sunday we were relaxing at home with our DQ. I was feeding Addison and Tim was catching up on the sports highlights on ESPN. After a little while of happily eating his ice cream, Troy looked over at Tim and said, "Gagone 'Go Cubs' Gagone". As serious as can be he was telling Tim he was tired of watching ESPN. It's a thing we've all said (or thought) with a sports fan in the house, but it's so much cuter when a 2 year old says it.


It has me thinking about some of his favorite things...

Favorite Foods: Grapes, hot dogs, chicken nuggets, cheese
Favorite Color: The first color he consistently knew was yellow. His spectrum has definitely expanded from there, but he still seems to like yellow.
Favorite Show(s): Cailou, Blues Clues, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
Favorite Activity: Playing outside. Pretty much from the minute he wakes up until the time he goes to bed he wants to play outside. He used to ask, "Shoes? Coat?" Then he figured out how to let himself outside. He would swing for hours if we let him.
Favorite Books: When the Leaf Blew In, I Love you Through and Through, The Mommy Book, The Daddy Book . He likes to read the same ones over and over every night.

And all of Troy's other little sayings and things he does. We call them Troyisms...
- For the past year or more he will use the American Sign Language when saying please, more, and all done.
- Similar to his obsession with the outdoors, he's obsessed with his "baby sista" asking for her from the minute he wakes up until he goes to bed. He loves to hold her, hug her, and kiss her.
- He has started saying "ummm" when trying to think of things right after you ask him a question.
- He often says "Welcome" instead of "Thank you"
- When you ask him if he's 2, a big boy, or any thing along those lines - his response is, "No, I'm Troy."
- Until recently he called himself "T"
- All sporting events are called "Go Cubs" and all balls are "Socca balls"
- Says 'push you', 'carry you', etc. when he means 'push me' or 'carry me'
- He loves to pull his back pack to school and will ask "hand?" when crossing the parking lot
- He has to buckles himself in to his car seat. Any thing else in the house with similar style buckles are almost always fastened by Troy at some point.
- Some cute Troy translations -- Mlalala = deodarant; Mlawa = water; Water-mi-mi = Watermelon; Elmo Bubbles = bath time
- Recently he's been asking "Coming?" if he wants to bring some thing or wants you to come with "Coming Mommy" "Cup Coming"
- He adores our neighbors (and Mama and Papa's too) and, yet, can be extremely shy at times too.
- WooWoos are body hair. He loves to point every one's out.
- When you repeat some thing he says to confirm you understood him correctly, he'll say "okay!" like it was your idea. E.g. - "Mo Gapes Peas" "Do you want more Grapes?" "Okay!"





And don't be fooled... even though she's only 3 months old, Addison has her own personality already.

- She loves to be called Princess or told she's pretty. It makes her smile every time.
- She's already a Cubs fan. She can't look away when ever they are on t.v.
- She prefers her fist over a pacifier
- She plays games with her sleep - she'll sleep 6 hours one night and then be up every 2 hours the next.
- When she gets really tired, she buries her head in your arm pit. She almost looks like she's rooting, and if she hadn't just eaten I would never know the difference.

There are so many other things that make the kids absolutely adorable, but I would be working on this post forever if I tried to include them all.

Our little Chef

Troy is really in to helping, so I decided it was time for some fun in the kitchen. We decided to make Banana Muffins. Troy mashed the bananas and helped put the ingredient in. He loves pulling the chair up to counter.





They turned out pretty yummy for a simple recipe. In fact, they're almost gone.

I'll post some more pictures of Addison soon. It's hard getting pictures of Addison since Troy always wants to help take them. Maybe I'll get some during nap time today.