Such A Good Sport

After listening to his cousin beg and plead for 30 minutes, Zander finally caved and allowed Addalyn to polish his finernails. He picked yellow since it wasn't so girly and was finally able to watch his show in peace while Add concentrated on his nails. ;) What a trooper!

Croup Strikes Again

This sweet girl had the nastiest cough, was crabby and had a fever last week but the doc said it was just viral, nothing we could do. After 3 days of a cough that did nothing but worsen, Mace went back to the doc and was diagnosed with croup again. Poor baby! The doc prescribed 4 days of steroids to help with the inflammation in her throat. Let me just say that she never got that 4th dose. She became a BEAST. Head butted her big sister because she "sceemed at me". She became defiant and argued with everything.
Nana was able to watch her one day last week. Addalyn and I were sitting on the couch when the doorbell rang. Add runs down, opens the door and this was sitting on our front porch. A giant sleeping baby still buckled into her carseat! Addalyn looked around for Nana and shouts "Really, Nana? Really???" Ha!
Side note: She's as healthy and happy as can be now. Thank goodness. No more germs!

American Idol Audition

It's that time of year again...American Idol! Addalyn, Macey and I lay in my bed together and watch this show almost every night. (I record it so we only watch it small portions at a time) Add and I always give our "yes" or "no" votes after every performance. So, today she decided to audition while I judged her. She sure has her dramatic reaction down pat! My gosh, I love this girl!

Macey's 3 Year Check Up

Baby Macey is measuring in the 75% percentile for weight and 90th% for height. What a big girl! And she's right on track with knowing her ABC's, counting to 10 and knowing her colors. The doctor said she was a PERFECT patient. That's my girl! Poor baby had to get 1 shot in her thigh that she obviously cried about. But she did awesome right up until she got it. She laid down willingly and was still smiling and chatting as the nurse wiped her thigh with alcohol. It was hard to watch, but she earned a free ice cream cone for doing so well. And she was cracking me up dancing around and singing "tick tock party rock" while waiting for the doc so she could be "doctored".

Macey Reading/Singing

I'm bummed that this is so dark, but you can still hear this sweet girls precious voice. I love it so much!

A Weekend of Parties

Macey and Addalyn at Emma's 5th Birthday PartyJen cutting the adorable Strawberry Shortcake Cake

Emma opening her gifts!

The cousins at Hannah's 2nd birthday party

I can't believe this baby girl is 2!

I guess it takes 3 kiddos to open 1 gift (poor Hannah!)

Macey, Addalyn, Mommy and darling Hannah

My Little *Star*

Addy Renee before her half-time performance

Best Buds

So proud of this little lady

A surprise visit from Daddy!

Nana and Addalyn

A hug and a rose from the sweet Landon Robert

The Best Way To Make Snowmen

A couple of weeks ago when I wasn't feeling so hot I was feeling pretty sorry for the girls for being cooped up and not being able to enjoy the snow. So, I decided to bring the snow in to them! They ate some, played some and Addalyn did a "school project" by letting the snow melt overnight to see that snow turns to water. She was pretty proud of herself.

Goofy Girls

The girls got to enjoy some Naked Juice the other day...and they wore it on their upper lips for the next hour! It was a new flavor with some crazy ingredients (purple carrots, red beets, sweet potatoes, sweet corn, chick peas, cherries and a few other things). It was different...but they liked it and it seems healthy. But next time, I'll probably have them drink it with a straw. ;)

Oh My...

After several days of feeling like crap, I finally went to the doctor yesterday to find out I have bronchitis. Since the girls have been fighting coughs for a week, I decided to take them in too, just to be sure they didn't have the same thing. The doc said that their chests sounded crystal clear and they just had head colds, but since I can't give them anything to suppress their coughs, the doctor suggested 1 tsp of Benadryl before bed to help with the other symptoms and maybe help them sleep better through the coughing. So, I did just that. 1 tsp before bed...and 20 minutes later, this was the scene in my living room. Macey sound asleep standing up, and Addalyn sound asleep straddling a pillow! At first I panicked and double checked the dosage making sure I didn't accidentally give them 1 TBSP. Nope, 1 tsp is all it took to wipe out these exhausted little gals. How funny! Poor angels.

Pom Clinic

Saturday morning Addalyn went to her first Pom Clinic. She was so super excited about it, it's all she talked about all week. It was weird leaving my "baby" at a high school by herself for 4 hours (actually Brooke took her and Camryn because I was still feeling sickly...so she actually left them there...haha!). I wasn't sure how she would do when it was time to perform for all the parents, but from what I could see, she did awesome! She was front and center until a bigger kid stood right in front of her. :-( I was trying to get Camryn on film too, but she kept dancing further and further away (she's on the left in the front with the light blue shirt on). Now, Addalyn is REALLY looking forward to her big performance during half time of the Staley High School and Oak Park High School boys basketball game Friday night. Don't worry, I told her to push her way to the front this time so mommy can see her dance. ;)

Sleepover!

Addalyn, Emma and Macey started their "sleepover party" off downstairs making pictures and cards

Then they got to make their very own shirts!

Emma said "I'll put my name on it but I can't use the iron until I'm REALLY big. Like when I'm 6." :-)

Emma and Addalyn showing off their adorable shirts

Macey's didn't turn out half bad considering her "M" is a "W" and her "Y" is an "X". Haha!
Then the girls got to pick out their nail polish for a little manicure...
...followed by a manicure for ME! Emma actually did pretty good (left hand). Addalyn used half of the bottle. She didn't like my cuticles to be bare. ;)
Washing up so we could make cupcakes!
This was a very messy task (putting the batter into the cupcake tins)

And now it's time to decorate!

More works of art!

And I snapped this to remember what my clean living room looked like......because a short time later it looked like this!

Sweet dreams, pretty girls. We had such a great time!

*Laughter is the best medicine*

Addalyn's Great Idea

For any of you that have ever been out to eat with Macey or served her a meal, you'll know what I'm talking about here. She has the shortest attention span known to man and can't even finish a meal in under a hour! There are too many other exciting things going on to actually sit and just eat (her baby doll needs to be burped, or she NEEDS to drive her remote control car, or she even sometimes needs to brush her teeth...mid meal!). The other night I told the girls they could have dessert after they both finished eating. Well, 20 minutes after Addalyn finished and patiently waited for Macey to finish so they could have dessert, she had a bright idea. She went and got her jump rope and decided to tie Macey to the chair, forcing her to sit and finish her darn dinner. I snuck around the corner to video their interaction (something that I don't do enough...they talk to each other like little grown ups sometimes, I love it!).

Hannah and AddyMacey

*3 darling cousins*

dinner with the Storey family

Addalyn holding precious baby Alex

dance party!

Addalyn snapped this action shot of Alex raising his tiny hand :)