Kristian's Big 6!

Can't believe! I simply can't believe it! I have a 6 year old boy who's in Kindergarten!! I LOVE Kristian. He is such a sweetheart. He is a great big brother, a great help to mom, and is so smart.
Kristian loves school, he is learning a lot and it is so fun to watch his creativity, personality, and imagination come to life! He loves being a big brother and LOVES his sisters.
He is excellent with electronics. He can play the Nintendo DS, navigate the X-BOX Kinect all by himself, play the iPOD, iPAD, and if he gets his hand on the remote control we're in trouble.
Kristian LOVES sports!! He always wants to know what the score is and when the next big game is going to be on. He is so good to learn the sports, rules, and who's play who and what game is next and... its exhausting.
Kristian loves to draw (its fun seeing his imagination and creativity come through). He loves transformers, lego's and his current favorite color is Scarlet (a red-orange color... he had to check his crayon box to be sure that was his favorite).
His favorite dessert right now is when we bake acorn squash with butter and brown sugar.

Kristian is a sweetheart. He always tries to do the right thing and make good choices. He is so tender and loving and cares so much. I LOVE this little boy with all my heart and am so blessed to have him as my big 6 year old!

Happy Birthday Jon

The big 31... Happy Birthday JON!! Ooops~ looks like we forgot the "3" on his cake... Oh well.. Birthday's are so much fun as you get older aren't they?

Addison Turns 4

Our Sweet Little Addison turned the big 4 on November 15th! What a joy she is!

Addison is such a joy. She is so enthusiastic and eager to learn and do everything her big brother does. She also loves to play in her kitchen with all her fake food and dishes. She loves her baby dolls.

The other day I was dressing up as a princess with her and she went to find me some princess shoes (high heels) and she said "Mom, you only have boy colors?" (black and brown)... but luckily I had 1 pair of red heels and she was satisfied. So with my cape, spatula (for my wand) and my tiara, we were set.

She LOVES anything girl. Pink, Purple, Hello Kitty, ALL the disney princesses. She loves to color and play dress up

Addison does at times have a bit of a temper... we call it her Addi-tude! She definitely is strong willed, independent, and want things her way... Heaven help me when she's a teenager (oh the arguments we'll have). She was sent to our family for a very special reason and we couldn't love her any more.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRINCESS ADDISON!!

Little M&Ms Blessing

Our sweet little Morgan Rees Middleton was blessed today by her grandfather Mark Roy Middleton. We were blessed to be surrounded with friends and family as we celebrated our sweet little girl's special day!


Our sweet little family!


Jon's side of the family:

Amanda's side of the family:

Sweet little Morgan..... such a beautiful, easy going, and sweet natured baby. Like I think I've mentioned before... a wonderful addition to our family.

Chalazion

Addison had a sty in her eye that appeared the day Morgan was born. Nervous that it may be pink eye we got her on an antibiotic just to be safe. Weeks went by and nothing changed.. in fact, it got a little worse. We were advised to do warm compresses and we did... nothing helped. Our pediatrician then put us on an oral antibiotic and again advised more warm compresses... nope! So we went to an eye specialist:

Addison was diagnosed with a Chalazion. Basically it is where the oil glands that secrete the cornea build up and the body starts to attack it like an infection. Normally warm compresses do the trick, but in the event that they don't then a hard mass forms and the only way to treat it is with surgery. So, we set a date!

Pretty gross looking. My thought was she is way to beautiful to have something so gross on her pretty little face. I was very anxious to get it taken care of.

Surgery day: We were told that they would call us to give us an OR time. So when I didn't get a phone call, I decided to call them. I was told that we weren't on the schedule. "Um, what?!" I was very frustrated, but eventually, ... long story short... we were able to get her added to the surgery schedule for the day.

November 10, 2011. We went to the Primary Children's wing at Riverton Hospital. Here we are waiting for our turn. The anesthesiologist came and talked to us, then the doctor came and marked above her eye so they did surgery on the correct one.


Then, when the time came, Addison took the hand of the anesthesiologist and walked one way as I walked the other. My brave little girl headed off to the OR by herself and I headed to the waiting room to sit....and wait....

The surgery took about 30 minutes. I then spoke to the physician about how it went and got instructions about follow-up, then I waited another 10-15 until they were ready to let me see her...

She was SOOOO sleepy from the anesthesia and had a hard time waking up. She did great and after about 2 hours in recovery she was ready to go home. Here she is taking her wagon ride out to the car.



Addison has been through so many things in her young little life. I can't begin to express how much love I have for her. She is so brave!! She is my hero!! Love my sweet little Addi Bug!!

Little Morgan... Growing Fast!

I know I haven't done very well to post pictures to see how much this sweet baby is changing. It's amazing how fast they grow and change. Morgan is such a sweet baby! She is good tempered, sleeps 10 hours at night (most nights) and is generally so so happy! She is the perfect addition to our family. We are truly blessed with amazing kids. So here I'm sharing some random pictures just for fun.



She is reaching the stage where she is super smiling and so so close to laughing. So fun! She warms your heart just looking at her.



Here are some cute ones of Kristian and Addison as well:


Here is Addi doing the "Jodi pose".. remember the cute Senior Picture of Jodi's?! We love this pose now and Addi always wants to do it!! Sweet girl (love you Aunt Hodi)

Halloween 2011

Happy Halloween!! This year we had Iron Man and Tinker Bell at our house. (Yes, they're the same costumes as last year, but why not?)



Mommy dressed up for work...

Morgan dressed up as a cute little baby...

Kristian loved having his parade at school and the Halloween party. Its too bad he didn't think to take his coat off, but.. oh well!


CARVING PUMPKINS!!
Kids had a great time carving pumpkins... They worked really hard to pull out all the pumpkin seeds so we could roast them. We then enjoyed some pumpkin chocolate chip cookies as Dad put his artistic carving abilities to work!


Another GREAT HALLOWEEN!!