The Rest of January

The rest of January passed with a lot of fun. Well most of it.

Both of Brighton's brothers were in town and we were lucky enough to be able to get his entire family together for a fun night at our house. We were lucky too because that night was one of the worst snow storm of the winter and some of the family live at least an hour away, without the snow.

Brighton and his siblings

The twins!

More family

 Since Addison's surgery she has had a whole new personality. She is more playful, laughs more, smiles more, and is just more lovable. I love it!!

Helping to clean the kitchen

Jamming out to music while waiting to get the tires rotated on the car

She can now climb up onto anything and loves to climb up on the sink and spend time playing.

She likes to mimic anything we are doing and is picking up many new things

                                                

January ended on a slightly low note. Addison caught ANOTHER cold. I am ready for this cold season to be over. At least we have been lucky and haven't gotten the flu and this cold didn't end up with an ear infection. But Addison was MISERABLE and in turn, we were too. But she is better now and we are onto a new month. February!!!

New Year

So my blog has been neglected for months now. There are many reasons for that but really they shouldn't be considered excuses. 1st - I lost my camera with a whole bunch of pictures on it, 2nd - My computer died and I kept hoping we could fix it so I went without a computer for a month before giving in and buying a new one, and 3rd - Addison has been sick CONSTANTLY!! I don't know how other mothers do it but sick children are hard. Period.

Well it is a new year and things are looking up for us. I have a new camera (yay for Christmas), I have a new computer, and Addison got tubes put in her ears!!!! I was so happy when her pediatrician finally recommended tubes. After one ear infection after another I thought I was going to scream. Between her molars coming in (which took FOREVER) and all of the colds/ear infections I thought I was a goner. I can only imagine how Addison felt.

We went to ENT and Addison failed all of the ear tests. Which meant she couldn't  hear and she wasn't going to get better without tubes. So I signed her up for the first surgery date available.  

Addison was a trooper. She only whined when they put the ID wrist band on her. She loved all the toys, (I love Primary Childrens), all the other kids to play with, and didn't seem to mind that she was fasting (my biggest worry).

The surgery went fabulously and she came out of it so well. Se was a little groggy but only had one minor incident. After they let us go we went down to PCMC's cafeteria to get Brighton and I a little something to eat and while we were waiting in line Addison threw up all over the nurse in front of us. It was traumatizing, for me. Addison didn't seem to mind at all. We quickly got someone to clean it up, apologized to the nurse (who took it very well), cleaned up all our clothes and went on our way.

I am very happy to have that surgery over, happy to have Addison feeling better, and excited to see what the New Year brings!   

 

Before

After