Well, I can't post any pictures right now because we had to ship the laptop off to get fixed. Something inside isn't working right and it's not charging.

I had to get up at 4:30 this morning to take Nathan to the airport. He called me from the Dillons parking lot after he had gotten gas and his truck wouldn't start. He's been having trouble with this for a while now but he's always gotten it to start after just a couple tries. We were just waiting for this to happen. He got it started after almost giving up and drove it home just after I got the kids in the car. We figured we wouldn't chance it breaking down on him so I drove him anyway. Well he drove there while I slept in the passenger seat and I drove home. LOL! That truck has given us way too many problems.

Anyway, Addison has been doing some new things. She's reaching and grabbing at things. She likes to lay on her play mat which has all kinds of toys dangling from the top. I put a teething toy on that and she likes to pull that into her mouth and suck on it. It's so cute to see her reach for things but not quite sure how to work her hands. I've also put her in the excersaucer already because she loves to stand just like Alex did. She does the same thing and reaches for things but can't quite figure out what to do with them. She can also roll on her side from laying on her back. I've been having her sleep on the guest bed but we really need to get the crib in the office because she's going to be rolling around soon. She had been sleeping through the night for about a week. Then, all of a sudden she was waking up twice a night. Now she's waking up once a night, which I can handle a lot better.

Alex has been doing really good with his potty training. He tells us now every time he needs to go pee pee. He can't seem to get number two down but I hear that takes a little more time. It just seemed to click for him one day and since then he's been doing awesome. It seemed to happen pretty soon after we had him going standing up like a big boy. We give him "dollars" whenever he goes. That's what he calls any kind of money. He usually asks specifically for pennys though which is fine with me. Then he runs and puts them in his "fast jet" piggy bank.

We've been going on walks a lot lately! Nathan all of a sudden got into all of this hiking, camping, survival stuff. I'm glad that it's something fun that I enjoy too and it's cheap since we have about everything you would need. I wish we had cool places to hike out here like Joanne and Jeremy do but we've been looking around at neat places to walk. We just discovered the Sedgewick county park which is huge and has lots of trails and play equipment. We were planning on camping out at my dad's farm for a trial run before we tried somewhere else but it was crazy windy the day we were going to go. We've been finding new routes around our neighborhood and walking farther to go get ice cream at different places. Wish we had a Bogeys! The kids really like it too! Addison seems to dig being outside just like Alex did! I've lost a couple more pounds too not even trying. LOL!

Nathan is going to be gone in Texas for today and tomorrow and then he's going to go out to St. Thomas over the weekend. He's not going to be out on the island for long enough to take good pictures though. :( I'm going to miss him but at least it's not for too long and I get to see him in between trips.

Here's a video of our little Addison talking! She's a babbler! She goes on and on!

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Hopefully this works! I wanted to post a video of Addison rolling over. She had done it a few times by the time I took the video and was starting to get a little mad.

Thought I would post some new pics of the girl and my new haircut! The first couple are Emily the baby that I watch. She's grown and changed so much. Addison has already changed a ton too! I love my new haircut! I was getting kinda tired of the long hair and decided to chop it all off. Nathan loves it! He'd been begging me a while to cut it short like when we first met. It's so easy to do! It takes like two minutes to dry and then I throw some stuff in it and it's all done! No clips or flat irons!

Thought I should post a little bit about what's been going on with Addison. We went to her 2 month check up and ran into a couple problems. First off she was still jaundiced and second she has a slight head tilt problem.

They had me formula feed over the weekend to make sure it was just breastmilk jaundice. Which it was! That wasn't that big of a deal other than all the stress going along with it. I hate bottle feeding! You have to deal with washing bottles constantly and pumping constantly and feeding in between. And, like Alex, she doesn't do well eating from a bottle. She was finally starting to get the hang of it by sunday night. I'm just glad she only wakes up once at night! When we went in on monday her levels had dropped and we were so happy about that.

The head tilt is called tortecollis. I had noticed it before and was going to ask the doc about it but then she brought it up first. It's pretty common I guess. It's that the neck muscles on the one side are tight. It can cause problems later on like their head not being symmetrical and their eye to be lower on the one side. They said it's better that we caught it early and it'll be quicker to treat this way. We had a physical therapy session today and hers doesn't seem very severe. They showed me a bunch of things to do with her to stretch out those muscles and fix the problem. She loved it too. They had her laying on a mat and she totally dug all the things they were doing with her. She was happy all the time except when they were doing things she didn't like. She even started falling asleep at the end all by herself laying flat on her back on the mat. It was pretty cute! They were very impressed by how strong she is and how much she was talking. She can push herself up on her hands and was even trying to work her knees under her. They said they'd call in a couple weeks for a follow up appointment to see where to go from there. I think they're kind of hoping that it'll just get better with time and strength that she builds in her neck.

Thought I would post some super cute pics we've taken recently. We went to the park yesterday and Alex had a blast playing. Then last night we had some smores. That's where the really yucky marshmallow mouth pic comes from.

So I finally have the laptop back and can post a few pics. Some of my favs are the last one where Alex is holding Addison and the close up of her face when she's on the uv bed.

It's been such a whirlwind since we had Addison. There was all the jaundice drama, Christmas, Grandma passing away, and then Nathan heading off to Dallas to start training. The jaundice took forever to go away and you can tell she has a little still lingering. Her face has a little yellow in it still. Her doc says that now it's breastmilk jaundice and unless you interrupt it with formula for a day it'll just take a little while to go away. She hasn't gotten any worse though so it's not a big issue anymore. She's been doing really well at night. She was getting up three times a night, then it went down to two, and now it's down to once around three or four in the morning. Not too bad! Nicole, the mother of Emily that I watch, said she had been reading that if they eat a lot during the day they should start sleeping through the night earlier. So, I just feed and feed and feed all day long. Every two hours and sometimes even less than that. She loves to eat too so it's not too hard to do that. She's pretty easy for the most part. She's usually very happy in the morning. If she gets grumpy at all I bounce her in the bouncy chair or carry her around in the sling while doing chores. She usually calms right down. At night she gets pretty grumpy right before bed and we can't do anything to console her. So, every night lately we've been laying her down and she cries herself to sleep. At first it was a little hard to deal with but it's almost like she knows the routine now. Last night it didn't take hardly any time for her to fall asleep like that.

I'm so glad Nathan is back home now! When he left I was really upset but the week flew by. I tried to keep myself really busy so I wouldn't think about it as much and time would go by faster. So, on Monday I had a friend over and we rented the women and got a pizza. Tuesday, we left early in the morning and went to Salina. We left on Wednesday afternoon. Thursday, Karen came over and hung out with me. The boys had a lot of fun playing! Friday, Nicole came over for a while in the morning and Nathan got home that night. Nathan was supposed to go to Brazil on wednesday but they ended up being able to do all their training in Dallas. So, I get a little over a week with him and then he leaves again. I'm glad to be able to have him home for a while before he's gone. We're going to spend a week in Salina when Nathan's gone so that'll be fun.

It's was fun for Nicole to come over on Friday. She brought Emily and I was shocked by how much she had changed. It was sad that I've missed all this time with her. They've also had a lot of problems with other sitters which I can't imagine because she was always such a good baby for me. She sits up all on her own now and picks up cereal all by herself. She's so much bigger and holds her own bottle! I'm really looking forward to watching her again! My first day is the fourth. Nicole's gotten her on the same sleep schedule as Alex so that'll be really nice. It'll be fun for Alex to have her to play with too!