Now THAT'S a Shiner

Our poor little Addy got in to it with the toilet...and the toilet won.  Her and I were getting ready to brush her teeth and do her hair Saturday morning.  I was putting her step stool by the counter and I turned around just in time to witness her trip on the rug and fall right on the base of the toilet with the corner of her right eye.

As soon as I could get a look at her eye (after the tears had calmed) it was already purple and pretty swollen...so I knew it was going to be bad.  But O--M--G!  It got more purple through the day, even worse Sunday, and was like a PLUM color on Monday morning. 

My heart breaks when I look at her poor little eye.  The first time she looked at herself in the mirror with her eye bruised she giggled and just kept looking and laughing!!  Silly little sweetie pie!



Sunday night...about a day and 1/2 after the fall

 

Tuesday morning...it went all the way around her eye and finally started to clear in color in the upper eye.

 

Thursday night...starting to clear and get a bit yellow...(please excuse the messy yogurt face!)

 So, she's going to have quite the eye for a while.  The thing is, it looks SO much better - but it obviously still shocks people that see her for the first time.  That's always a fun :)  I totally wish it was my eye instead...makes me want to cuddle and love her (and, she MAY have gotten a few more Dora fruit snacks than normal since last Saturday!)

Wuv U Bwake

Miss Addalyn has quite the sweet side to her (of course she also has a naughty side, but thankfully that is shown a lot less than her sweet these days...hopefully it stays that way as we near her 2 year old days!)

Last night was one of those sweet nights.  She really does love her little bro.  Twice out of nowhere, Addy puckered up her lips and made the kissing sound, so I leaned him over to her and Addy gave him a big kiss on his forehead and then goes "I wuv u Bwake".  Too sweet!!

Then a little later she was saying "I want this, I want that, I want ____" over and over again (not in a bad way, just wanting help grabbing things to play with!).  I jokingly said, "I want a big sqeeze"!  She immediately stopped what she was doing and ran over to me and wrapped her arms around my neck and gave me the BEST. HUG. EVER.

I was on the floor playing with her and Addy goes "mama, piwwow?" and went and grabbed a pillow off the couch, then goes "mama, bwanket" and grabbed me a blanket - she asked daddy for some help with the light, and then said "nuh-night mama". 

Aaaaah, how I wish I could keep her right here at this age forever!



Addy loves this little man!!!

 

Of course we all know how in love she is with daddy!  No question there!

 

Cuddling in next to Blake -- sometimes she just wants to get SO close to him!

 



Four Months Down :)

I can't believe how quickly Mr. Blake is growing and how quicly the time is passing. We are already nearing the half-way point between months 4 & 5.  Crazy!  He is so much fun these days.  He is very smiley, he loves to talk (and Addy always gets excited and says "He's Talkin'" when she hears him), and has giggled a few times too.

We had to do some sleep training after my 3 month post.  We went through a time period where he was waking every hour to hour & 1/2 and all he needed was his pacifier.  I knew he wasn't needing a bottle because he had gone nights without one (and with sleeping through the night).  So, him and I camped out down stairs and figured things out.  He's been doing awesome!  Basically sleeps through the night.  He does use a pacifier, and has a few nights where he wakes and all he needs is his paci.  When this happens, it is much more manageable because we just get up, give him the paci, and then go back to bed - and it is only once!

Blake started cereal this month also.  We had started it actually right after he turned 3 months thinking he was getting hungry at night...but it didn't really do well with his tummy, so we stopped and figured we'd try again in a few weeks.  Now, he LOVES his cereal!...as long as you catch him before he's TOO hungry, because then he is not happy with the cereal.  His bottle just fills his tummy quicker :). So he's now eating cereal for 'breakfast' and 'supper' with 4 bottles throughout the day. 

Here are his stats at his 4 month check up:

Height - 24.8 inches (44%)

Weight - 14.6 pounds (42%)

Head - 16.9 inches (68%)



4 months old!



Smiley Guy!

Mmmmmm, cereal :)

I really like my jumperoo these days (even if my face doesn't prove it in this picture!)

Those eyes melt mama's heart!

 The first night that we gave Blake cereal - Addy INSISTED on trying it also...lets just say she didn't like it very well.  And unfortunately (for her...fortunate for us!), since it was his first night eating cereal we had the camera right there we got a picture of her face when she took a bit bite of it. 



She liked it almost as much as she did the first time she tried it when she was 4 months!

(rice)