Slacking!!!

I have been slacking horribly on my blog. I have pictures of Gus at three months and four months and updates on Addison.

Addisonisms

• Dandaids (Bandaids)

Ryan: OK, we're leaving

Addison: Don't drive, That's not funny. Don't leave mommy!

• Frosty the snow man has a corndog pipe
• I caught Addison opening on of my tampons saying she wanted to be like mommy!!!

Gus update:

• He was four months old on January 19, 2012
• He is really starting to babble, saying mum, mum, mum
• He is a smiley man!
• He is a horrible napper, still.
• He sleeps through the night, from 8:00 until about 6:00.
• He has rolled over from tummy to back but does not do it consistently.
• He loves his big sister!!!! He always has big smiles for her as long as she doesn't get too close (Addison loves to be right in his face)
• He is starting to reach for things!

Christmas Card 2011

Happy Holidays!!! I cannot believe another year has come and gone. We have had one big change this year! We welcomed August John Meyer (aka Gus or Gussy man) on September 19, 2011. Here are some brief tidbits about all of us!

Ryan is still at Hy-Vee. He is the Assistant Director of Store Operations and finally has some better hours. He loves the Hawks and is addicted to my yearly Christmas present of his Hawkeye website. He will also give me updates on recruits for both basketball and football (I pretend like I care).

Katie is still at Madison teaching students with autism. This is her 9th year teaching. She loves to read (when she has time) and play with my beautiful babies!

Addison is a bouncing, bounding 3 year old! She loves to talk and is very good at it. She says the craziest things. She just talked to the Grinch on the phone today and told him not to take her candy canes! She took a tumbling class this summer and we are looking into preschools for next year. I cannot believe that she is going to be old enough for preschool.

August was born on September 19. He came into the world at 11:52 AM weighing in at 8 lbs. 13 oz. He is almost 3 months old now. We have had some trials and tribulations. He was pretty crabby the first two months but is getting much better now. He is beginning to smile and is able to hold his head steady when being pulled to a sitting position.

Hank and Daisy haven't changed much, just adjusting to one more body in the house!!!

2 month appt.

Gus had his two month doctor appointment today. He had shots. =[ He took them like a champ! He was also diagnosed with a little reflux which could be why he is fussy all the time. He has had one dose of the prevacid and is already acting less fussy. Here are his current digits and percentiles (He is a big boy!)

Height: 23 3/4 inches (90%)

Weight: 12 lbs. 7 ounces (75%)

Head: 40.6 (80%)

Maybe he will be tall like my Grandpa TT!!!!! it would be the only thing he would have gotten from our side since he couldn't look more like his daddy!

2 months

Hard to believe that Gus is 2 months old today.

Paci free!!! Addison update.

• Addison has been paci free for four days now! We visited the dentist on Friday and he could tell that she was a habitual paci user! He suggested we work on getting rid of it so I decided that we were going to do it cold turkey! She still asks for it but he crying jags are getting shorter! Yesterday she was biting her nails right before nap and I told her to keep her hands out of her mouth. She said, "leave me alone, mom."
  


• Addison has started replaying scenes from her favorite movies. The floor cleaning scene in Cinderella in the bathroom, the cake baking scene in Sleeping Beauty, and the scene from Bambi when Bambi's mom dies (I don't like this one but she will run to a corner and say "we made it mother")
  


• The other day I asked Addison to get me something while I was feeding Gus and she looked at me and held out her empty hands and told me "I can't, my hands are full."
  


• She calls Gus her "Gussy man".



• She is the greatest big sister. She is so loving and always wants to talk to Gus.



• She loves to help but only on her terms. She helped me load the dryer the other day and then wanted to stay downstairs to watch it!



• She lets Hank in and out of the house when he needs to go potty. She also locks the slider door when she is done.



• When she hears the beep of her dad's coffee maker, she annouces that the coffee is done!

1 month

Oh, the things she says and does

Mom: careful, don't poke him in the eye.
A: I am wiping the tears off.

Mom: Addison, what did you do today?
A: well, ...
(every conversation starts like this)

Gus was crying in the swing while I was going to get his bottle ready, I came back and about 10 pacifiers were littered around his head. Addison went into his room, used her step stool, and got him pacis to calm him down.

All of these things were said when we were up north for Ryan's grandpa's funeral so that is why we had a lot of livestock coversations.
A: Look mom, horses!
M: cool, do horse have toes?
A: No, they wear shoes!

A: Cows. Cows eat grass and horses eat carrots. Sheep eat grass too, like cows.
M: your right.
A: I know lots of things!