Genius!

With Addi's upcoming birthday I have been considering cake decorating ideas. This is by far the best idea I've ever seen so you don't have to clean out your piping bags. I'm not sure how many of you decorate cookie or cakes but I thought this was awesome!

Scary

This past weekend we went down to Duck Creek to work on Chad's grandpa's cabin again. Since there's always noise and people everywhere, we decided to put Addi's pack n' play in Grandpa's room so she could take a nap. It was pretty snug in there so we put it between the bottom of the bed and a low dresser. When Chad put Addi in there he saw Grandpa's pill box on the dresser and pushed it all the way to the back, thinking that Addi wouldn't be able to reach... we were wrong. 20 minutes after we put her in there I opened the door and found her sitting up, with pills strewn right next to her! Each section of the box had 1 aspirin and 3 500mg tablet of Niaspan, which is a cholesterol medication. She had only managed to open one of the day slots and I found the asprin half eaten/sucked on, 1 untouched niaspan, and 1 niaspan that had the coating almost completely sucked off. WHERE WAS THE 3RD NIASPAN?!?!?! We took her the the Duck Creek fire station to have the EMT look at her. She wasn't displaying any symptoms of overdose (vomiting, diarrhea etc) and her breathing was good and her heart rate was normal, the only thing that was really scaring us was that she was out cold and wouldn't wake up for anything! (Of course, she had gotten 4 hours less sleep the night before so its very possible that she was just very very tired.) The EMT said he thought she would be fine but that its always best to get her checked out just in case she ended up getting a hold of some other pills that we didn't know about.

We decided to make the 40 minutes drive down the mountain to the Cedar City hospital. Before we left, Chad and his brother Michael gave her a blessing and she woke up for that but then went back to sleep on the way down. About half way down the mountain we got a voicemail saying that they found the 3rd Niaspan. She had sucked on it so it was stuck to Addi's blanket. We figured that we'd keep going just to make sure she was 100% ok. We got Addi to the ER and they monitored her heart and took blood and urine samples. She did very good at sitting for the whole time she was hooked up, which I feel like was over an hour but everything came back with good results and we were able to go back up to the cabin.

When we first got to the hospital, they gave Addi a little rubber ducky to play with and Chad and I joked that that rubber ducky cost us several hundred dollars. In reality, we of course would rather be safe than sorry and would pay anything for the safety of our little girl. We are so so so grateful that everything turned out ok and that there's no permanent damage caused by our daughter's very high level of curiosity and apparently very long arms. :)

Hard to Please

Today Addi is 11 months old and like always I had to take some pictures of her. The hard thing about 11 month olds is that they have their own opinions and very rarely want to sit still, let alone smile for the camera. This makes me so sad because Addi used to smile everytime we took the camera out. Oh well. Here's a few for your entertainment.

"Why is she making me do this?"

"I'm practicing for my modeling career. How's my serious/looking off into the distance face working out?"

"I guess I'll give you a smile but only if I can make it a little goofy."

"Look how long my tongue is."

Snaggle tooth Monster

I have been trying for a few days to get a picture of Addi's awesome teeth and I finally had success!

She has had that top side tooth for about a month now and just today the one right next to it broke through so she'll have her top 2 right teeth and none on the left. We'll see which on comes in next! Middle left or left side? What do you think?

Toes

Addison went to the beauty parlor today and got her toenails painted for the first time. Here she is relaxing in her chair reading her book as she waits patiently for her toes to dry (not really but she was playing with her book as I painted them).

The final result. Its not very good but I think for a first try she did great and we avoided any disasters.

Also, check out this little lady. She almost always has her feet crossed, whether its in her high chair or in her stroller. She hates being improper. :)

Ta Daa!

Addison learned all kinds of new things this weeks. Check it out

She just started growling the other day for no reason but it was pretty funny.

She has been wanting to be more independent recently so we let her hold her plum and feed it to herself. It ended up being very... messy. :)





And this isn't from this week, its from the cabin, but I forgot I took it and its just too cute not to share.