Walking Tall

Addison started walking unassisted tonight!!! Here is some video of her accomplishments.

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Thanksgiving weekend

wow, what a whirlwind this weekend has been. It was a great weekend full of family and fun!!!! It started with Mark and Grete coming in on Wednesday night. Thursday started with brunch in the morning at Grandma's house, games and then dinner at the Tiemeier's. Friday was more of the same. We had dinner at the club and then opened Christmas gifts. Addison got an Abby Cadabby doll from the Hatz family and a turtle leap frog toy, a book, and bath toys from Grete and Mark. On Saturday we played more games, had more to eat, and all around a lot of fun. Pretty much all weekend was eating, drinking, fun and games. It was all a lot of fun and it was great to see Mark and Grete!

Carter opening his gift from us. He was not sure what to think of it to begin with but I think he likes it now.

Addison playing with Carter's Christmas gift from Mark and Grete. They did a really good job sharing it! Not really, that is Addison pulling on Carter's ear in the first photo.

Addison with her Abby Cadabby doll. I have never seen her so happy!! She loves that doll.

All in all, it was a great weekend. Now we need to rest and work off all the turkey and desserts that we ate all weekend!!!

Goofy Girl

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Here are some goofy things that Addison likes to do when she doesn't have any toys or is bored with her toys.

Ryan let the cat out of the bag!!

Ryan was so excited about what he got me for Christmas that he kept laying down hints until he accidentily said it last night during dinner. He got me a new computer, a laptop. It is an HP and it is really awesome. I am so excited about it. Hopefully, it will help me update my blog more often. =] Addison got her glasses on Tuesday. She is not very good about wearing them. It is definately going to be a process. If anyone has any helpful hints, I am open to anything. Pictures of her in her glasses in another post. Wishing everyone a healthy, happy, and safe Thanksgiving.

Eye doc

Last Thursday we had to take Addison to the eye doctor (because she was premature, they wanted to check up on her eyes). My little lady was a good girl at the doctor when they dialated her eyes and even went into the kids room and shared very well with a little boy about her age. We found out that Addison has a lazy eye and she is far-sighted so that means glasses!!! How on earth am I going to keep glasses on her face. She immediately rips them off my face so she will for sure be taking hers off. We go back on the 19th of November to confirm her perscription and get her glasses. I was upset about it at the time but there is not a whole lot I can do plus she will look cute in glasses. I guess if this is the worst thing that has happened from her prematurity, I will take it!!! =]

Our trip to the ER

Tonight turned out to be a very interesting one. I was at Hy-Vee having dinner with Ryan on his break when I get a phone call from my mom telling me to go and ask the pharmacist a question. I immediately think something is wrong with Addison until my mom says, "we need to know if there is a way to make Hank throw up." Hank followed my mom to the basement while she was doing laundry and found some rotten raw chicken breasts on the floor and decided to eat them. My mom got something out of their chest deep freeze the other day and had to move the chicken breasts and forgot to put them back in. Anyway, back to the pharmacist. She told me to give him a tablespoon on Hydrogen Peroxide and if that didn't work in 15 minutes to try again. We did that and it didn't work so we headed down to the emergency care center for animals. We find out there that it is 1ml to every pound. Well, Hank is 70 pounds, no wonder it didn't work. So Hank was given drugs to induce vomitting (Lovely, I know). Lowe and behold, he vomits. He vomits up 7 whole chicken breasts. Whole, he never chewed those gross rotten chicken breasts! The vet comes out to tell us this discusting, smelly story and to also let us know that they want to keep Hank for an hour for observation because he was staggering, his heart was racing, and he was acting funny. What a way to spend a Friday night!!!!

Addison's 1 year pics

Here are some samples of Addison's 1 year pics. Also vote for her in the Gap Kids contest. http://family.go.com/gapcastingcall/entries/kmeyer62406/. Also vote for her in the Gerber Baby contest. http://gapc-vote.com/?p=1830874