And Baby Makes Four...

Addison is going to be a BIG SISTER! YAYYYYYYY! Finally, after 5 months of trying we are finally pregnant. I am almost 5 weeks along and doing great! We are soooooo excited and can't wait for this little one to come along and join our family. Addison is as excited as an almost 2 year old can be. When you say "Big Sister" she starts singing it and spinning in a circle and when you ask "what's in mommy's belly?" she answers very excitedly "BABY!", it's very cute even though she probably has no idea, but this is Addison were talking about, the child who knows way more than we give her credit for! We dressed her in this Dora Big Sister shirt and went to all the grandparents's houses and waited until they noticed the shirt (which was a mere seconds) and that's how they all found out, it was cute! I went a little crazy with taking pictures of Addison in her Big Sister shirt (she was just too darn cute) so you can see them all here!

GUESS WHAT ???????

Monkey Joes & Stomach Buggies

Well, the latter part of the title describes our week! It all started with Miss Addison on Monday night, I heard her screaming on the baby monitor around 11:30, I went in and OH MY LORD!!!! She and her big girl bed were COVERED in puke!!! It was all in her hair and on all her blankies and even made it on Dora! After we cleaned her and her bed up (thanks Wes!!) we laid in bed with her for a little bit because we didn't know if she was going to do it again and she didn't so we left and she went right to sleep and was fine after that. We found out the next day that Grammie threw up that same night! So I come next, it was Tuesday afternoon and I got nauseous and I got all excited because I thought well FINALLY I'm pregnant!! Nope that night I puked from midnight until 4 am--fun and was in bed all day Wednesday (thanks Grammie for taking Addison all day!!). I was a little quessy (sp?) Thursday but I had to work so I sucked it up and today I am completely fine! So Wesley is next, I called from work on Thursday to see if softball was cancelled due to the rain and he said no but he wasn't going and I asked why and he said because he has been home in bed all afternoon feeling sick--OH MY!!! He was sick all night and still not too great today but had to go to work-poor guy! So it was a fun week and I can't wait to do it again--j/k! SInce I was feeling fine today I decided to take Addison up to Monkey Joes to play with some of my friends from work JUlie and ALison and we had a blast. She LOVES going down all the slides and laughs so hard!! There are a few pictures you can see here, enjoy!!

Torcaso Park

Addison and I are on a search for the best park in our area. We are on the lookout for somethig with a great playground, lots of shady trees and maybe some water like a lake or something. Today we decided to try out Torcaso Park and Trotwood Park. Torcaso Park was very nice, cute little playground area, not under any trees though, a very small retention like pond with a small pier (more like a little dock), and a very cool splashground area. I was not very impressed with the tree coverage, there was ONE and it was small and not covering anything, it stood by itself on the outskirts of the park. Not a lot of tables and you had to pay for the splashground. Ok, it was a dollar for the year BUT you had to walk about 1/2 a mile to the senior center and pay there, so by the time we ate our picnic lunch in the SUN (remember no trees)and walked to pay for it Addison got to play maybe 5 minutes and the cute little old man said he saw thunder clouds coming so we had to pack up and leave. Oh well, she had a lot of fun for 5 minutes. We might go back, I mean I paid for it for a whole year, right!! It's about 12 miles from the house and with not a lot of shade it wasn't my favorite. So, off to Trotwood Park we went and of course as soon as we got there and parked it started pouring rain. It looked REALLY nice though, tons and tons and tons of huge shady trees and lots of covered pavilions with tables. They had a litle kids playground and a bigger kids area and a little bit larger lake-retention pond- than the other park. So, maybe we'll try it again tommorow. If anybody out there has any other parks that they like to go to that meet my requirements (ha ha!) then leave a comment and let me know!!

Sea World

We are totally getting our use out of these Sea World passes! We are having such a good time going to Sea World and Aquatica. After breakfast with Elmo we played around at Sea World. We met up with Sandra's sisters Kimmie and Ashley and then later on met up with my stepmom and Nicki and Alex. We went to the Abby Cadabby and Elmo Treasure Hunt Show and that was fun, Addison was amazed!! We let the kids play in the water splash area until BOTH children decided to take massive DUMPS in their swim diapers. We also rode on the merry-go-round
with all the animals on it and Aunt Nicki rode this one with us and Addison loved that! We got to see Shamu and watched the dolphin show which is my favorite. We saw the manatees and me and Alex rode Kraken the roller coaster and that was awesome, I haven't rode a rollercoaster in FOREVER!!! At the end of the day the kiddos FINALLY fell asleep when we were in the parking lot going to the cars, figures! Again, picture album will be up soon, I'll let you know.

Breakfast With ELMO

Friday morning we went and had breakfast with our friend Elmo. Oh my what a great time we had. We met my friend Sandra and her little boy Andrew there and the kids had a BLAST!!! We ate our yummy breakfast and then some of the Seasame Street characters walked around and mingled with us. We got to see Ernie, Bert, Cookie Monster, and Rosita. Then, the characters sang a little song and did a little dance on stage and the kids were dancing around going wild. It was so cute. After that we got to line up and go sit with Elmo and get our pictures taken. Addison went right up to Elmo and have him a giant hug. We got some really cute pictures and Addison had a great time. Pictures to come a little later, my hard drive is so full that I can't get the pictures off my camera so as soon as Amazon ships my new external hard drive you will just have to wait in suspense, although there are a few that I posted with this entry so enjoy and I'll let you know when I get the album online.

AQUATICA

We went to Aquatica today with my stepmom and little brother and sister. It was the funnest place EVER! They had so much for Addison to do, I highly reccomend it. There were two really neat places especially for the kids. The one for the really small kids was so cool. There were all kinds of slides that Addison could go on and even a ride that had a raft that we could ride on together. We went in the lazy river a bunch of times and then Addison's favorite was the wave pool. It was very hard to get the camera out and take pictures just because we were in the water the whole day. I did manage to get a couple pictures (for me thats like 20~ha ha!) in the wave pool so you can see those here. But, it was soooo much fun and we have the year pass so if anone wants to go let me know!!!!