Some Kiddie updates...

So how are the kids these days? They are great and keep my days very busy from beginning to end, with the occasional break in between. I really like the break in between. I know that probably sounds horrible but I really feel like a better mom when I get the break.

So, Addy Jo has a bad cold and a pretty bad cough. It is worse at night of course. Took her to the Doc to be sure the RSV virus she had earlier this year was not returning and we are in the clear for now. Got the usual advice - if it doesn't get better bring her back. What does she like to do these days? Well she is really growing up, you can tell that she will be one in just a couple of weeks. She gets around everywhere and gets into EVERYTHING!! She is much more curious and determined than Paige was at her age so we have our hands full. She jabbers all the time and many words come out very well. Grandma, grandpa, yeah and the usuals like mama and dada. She makes a noise for Paige but it really doesn't resemble Paige at all yet. She wants absolutely everything her sister has. She is also a little drama queen I have noticed - I know you are surprised another drama queen in our family :) She has already started the little tantrums for things she doesn't get and just throws herself down on the floor and cries.
Oh, yeah and she LOVES to take showers with her dad every morning. Dave is really missing the showers he used to take alone. If Addy hears the shower start she crawls over to it like a crazy lady and starts pulling on her clothes trying to get them off. She loves tooth brushes and tries to get a hold of everybodies in the house.

Paige, oh where do I begin. It starts something like this - "if I have to ask again you are getting a timeout!" or "be nice to your sister, please!" or "you have to share" or "if you don't do it by the count of three it is another timeout!". It seems that some of my days are filled with all of these phrases many, many times and I wonder where I can get some more patience. Other days I don't really have to utter any of those phrases. Everyday when I wake up I just don't know what I am going to get. Actually I kind of do, Paige has been intermittingly napping in the afternoons and when she doesn't nap for a day or two the days become trying. This is where the "in between" on my days comes in - and I really like it when they sleep.

I think it is so interesting to see the changes coming. It seems so strange that they come right around an age change. Addy Jo turning one and you can just see the changes in how she carries herself and is slowing becoming less of a little baby and more of a toddler. Paige right around 2 made some definite changes and we kinda all adapted and ironed out some of the kinks and now it seems we are just at another age change. I hear it gets better after they actually have their birthday - I am hanging on it that :)

Of course it is not all bad - or challenging is a better way to put it. Paige is still always amazing me. She has started to learn how to read her numbers. She has been counting them for a really long time but actually recognizing them on something and announcing what they are is amazing. Last week we were doing some grocery shopping and the Super T and as we entered an isle Paige says "hey mom , we are in number 4". So I turn around and look - sure enough we are in number 4. As any mom would do, I totally overreact and get all excited and praise her like crazy. Every aisle we went into in the store was isle 4 and she waited for my response. I chalked it up as a coincidence on the 4 thing and went on about my business. So- tonight Dave was putting on his uniform for softball and his number is 33. Paige says "hey dad, did you know you have a 3 on your back?" I guess she is really getting it. Cool.

Her latest bad word is "hell" as in "what the hell are these?" I went through the bad words talk AGAIN and she said "does daddy say it?"

Oh and on the "damn" thing. She loves Barney and on one of the videos they sing about fish swimming in the dam. She is sooooo confused. She told me that their moms told them they could say damn. Everytime she hears it in the song she says, "oh they said damn" in this whisper of a voice with her hand over her mouth. I have tried to explain the difference but it is just to complicated to grasp yet, I think. So I just shake my head and think sure enough when I get her to stop saying damn because it is not a nice word - Barney has to have a song about it. What the hell?