My life...

So....I was just thinking today about my life. About all the craziness that is my life right now. Things are going a million miles a minute and in all directions right now (which some of you know what i am talking about)...but as I was thinking about all this craziness today...I was also thinking what a great life I have. Even with all of it, I am so thankful for my life. I am thankful for my wonderful, loving and very handsome husband. who supports me and loves me through it all. through all the times when I talk just plain non-sense, when I'm crying hysterically over a scene in a Grey's Anatomy episode (particularly last nights episode), when I snap at him for no reason at all except that I'm just overwhelmed and stressed, when I can't decide for the life of me where to eat or what to eat and it takes me a good 1/2 hour to finally decide, when I'm neurotic about cleaning the house or the times when I haven't cleaned the house for 2 weeks, when I keep changing my mind about my career path and where my life is going, when I fall asleep on the couch after only watching our shows for 20 minutes at 9:15pm (I know I'm getting old), and finally when I'm just being me. even with all my quirks...I guess you would call them that....good or bad, he loves me unconditionally and still tells me that he loves me a thousand times a day....and I LOVE IT and LOVE HIM for it. He is my best friend, my confidante, my one true love, the one I turn to.....HE IS MY ROCK.

I am also beyond words grateful for this gift that I have been blessed with, my 5 1/2 month old perfectly-perfect little girl, Addison Rylee. She is the most beautiful baby that I have ever laid my eyes on. And she is the spitting image of her daddy. She has his patience and good heart and it shows through already. Not too mention that she has his dashing good looks too ;-) She has my eyes, which I love. Those big baby blues just light up a room. Sometimes I look at her and just tear up (in a joyful way)...thanking her for coming into our lives. I wonder how I/we got so lucky to have her? No matter the answer...I am one lucky mommy. She is such a good baby....as most of you who have been around her know...She rarely cries, always is smiling and laughing, and does whatever I ask of her with no questions asked (probably cause she can't talk yet but you get the point...he he). I love her more and more everyday. I love her more than I thought I could ever love something in this world. I hope that she loves me as much as I love her, and I hope that I can give her the world. I will do everything in my power to do just that and to show her everyday how much she means to me. She is...(dare i say it)....the perfect baby. I could not have asked for a more precious gift to be given to me....she is what makes my world go round.

So I guess what I'm trying to say in all of this....is that....no matter the bad or sad or drama or whatever that goes on in your life, be grateful for what you have. I have an amazing husband, a beautiful, healthy baby girl, a roof over my head, a job (!), and a family that loves me for me and that is MORE than enough to be grateful for. All the bad, negative stuff, and drama can simply take a backseat to MY life!

As you can probably tell, I've been alittle emotional lately ;-)....so thanks for listening and letting me express whats on my mind...xoxo Aly

Lots of Photos!!

Hey everyone!! So it's been alittle while since my last post...sorry about that...things have been kinda crazy around our house these last couple of weeks.

So let's see...what's new??? Well, Addi is starting to sleep through the night...not every night...but some nights. Which is sooo nice when it does happen. Although, i must admit that even when she does sleep through the night I'm constantly looking at her video monitor making sure she's still sleeping or breathing or something...first time mommy syndrome i guess :-)

And she's def teething now....NOT FUN! My always happy girl is still a very happy girl but alittle grumpy when her toofers are bugging her...breaks my heart to see her upset and in pain. I have been giving her those teething tablets everyone talks about and those seem to work well so until this "phase" is over, we'll just keep her comfortable and keep on the teething tablets and teething rings....

Other than that, she's just growing like a weed (as you'll see in the pics below). Eating more and more solid foods....we've got bananas, pears, applesauce, squash, and sweet potatoes down. Still working on the peas, peaches, and carrots. Peaches are alittle sweet for her and she's not a huge fan of the peas yet...and I don't think i am either ;-) haha...so that's going good. And now that the weather is alittle better she's finally starting to get into her summer clothes...which i am STOKED about...cause her summer wardrobe is fantastic!! Such cute stuff...Thanks Grandma's & Grandpa's!

Anyways...I guess that's about all...just trucking along with work, baseball, and enjoying this beautiful weather we are having and hoping that it continues. :-) Ok so below are some pics (ok alot of pictures...sorry ;-)) i have taken of Addi over the last 2 weeks or so and some HILARIOUS video of Addi's "tupae" as we like to call it. Soooo funny...kinda mean...but funny! It will be great when she's dating!! haha!! Ok well hope everyone is doing great! Until next time...Aly xoxo

Naked baby pics from 3/24/09, she just looked
so cute i had to take some pics!




























Soo sweet!














Playing on her playmat after bath time....
FREEDOM!




























Playing with her drum set...you'll have to
excuse the messy hair, it was after nap time :-)














Beautiful baby girl!














Hanging with Daddy














Ahhh...so cute! Getting sleepy....














Fun time at Gma & Gpa Bailey's house!!
She LOVES the school bus!




























Look at that smile!! Sooo happy!














Looks just like her daddy!














Haha! This is hilarious...this is what we like to
call a "BLOWOUT"!! Sooo gross!














Random pics...so precious!




























Addi and Mommy at Daddy's baseball game...
soooo windy!!














Addi and her "Tupae" Part I (you'll have to
excuse me, I was being silly....)

Addi and her "Tupae" Part II...

SOOOO HILARIOUS!!!

And finally...Gpa Kruse & Gma Cheryl came over

for the day to hang out and Addi just couldn't get

her eyes off the tag on her bobby and just couldn't

get that darn tag to stay down!!! Too funny!

Random update...

Hey everyone!! So we started solid foods (Gerber's 1st Foods) with Miss Addi girl the other night and I thought I would post a few pics to show you all how it went....

mmmmm bananas!?!?!?














Def not too sure about the bananas....















Daddy "trying" to get Addi to eat the bananas...














Now Mommy's turn to try....














There we go...see banana's aren't too bad...haha!














She finally ate the banana's and then tried the
peaches...that didn't work out as well ;-) Alittle ambitious I think for our first try at it!














And since i've been alittle camera crazy lately, I have some super adoreable pics I took of Addi last night and just had to share them with you all!! Enjoy!! Until next time...xoxo Aly

My baby is 5 months old!!!

Hello and Happy Monday to everyone! And boy does it feel like Monday! I think it's even worse today because we did the whole "Spring forward" thing on Saturday night...losing an hour of sleep is never good! Although I do always look forward to the extra daylight in the summer...but today I def feel the difference. It took forever to get out of bed this morning :-)

Anywho...so we had a great weekend! Miss Addison is amazing as always and impresses me everyday. She is such a good little girl!! Saturday was Auntie Meg's Bday Brunch at Rio City Cafe in Old Sac....and it was a BEAUTIFUL day! Sunny and warm...perfect for brunch on the river! Addi was ALL smiles as usual...and was "hamming" it up for the camera! She got to meet little Miss Gracie for the first time (Addi is exactly a week older than Gracie) which was cool to see the size and personality differences between the two of them. As our food came, Addi went down for her normal nap and was out the rest of the brunch...which worked out good so I could eat and enjoy myself with the girls.

My baby girl and her baby blues!!


Soooo precious!!

Auntie Katie and Addi

Sleeping through the rest of the brunch...such a good girl!!

Sunday we had lunch at pizza with Dan's Grandparents and hung out for a couple of hours. I think that they really enjoyed spending time with Addi...they have not seen her since Xmas!! Grandma Smith just kept giving her hugs....it was sooo cute!

Addi and Mommy

Daddy taking a pic of Addi and GG's

GG giving Addi hugs

GG and Addi

Daddy and his baby girl

My baby :-)

AND....I FINALLY got Addi rolling over on camera!! Yeah!! I got some cute pics and also a video of it!! Now that she's rolled over a couple of times she's def getting the hang of it! And of course I always go crazy with the clapping and yelling! HEHE It's so funny too cause now she'll look up at me like..."Mom, look at me! Look what i did!" So Cute!
Getting ready...

YEAH!!! I rolled over!!

"Wait...what just happened!??!?"

"I rolled over!!! Mom, check me out!!"

Getting the hang of it...:-)

Video of Addi rolling over...only the second time she's done it!!

Hope you enjoyed all the new pics of my baby girl!! Until next time....XOXO Aly

PS I am waiting on a few more from friends so I'll post those when I get them...

Hello and Happy March to ya'll! Well, it's been about a week since my last post and boy has alot happened!! Where to begin??? Well I guess I'll start by saying that Addi has been SICK since last Friday! :-( I had noticed that she had been coughing a bit for about a week but didn't think much of it since she seemed ok overall. But then after I picked her up from daycare on Friday afternoon and...the HELL began!

She wouldn't eat her dinner & was pretty cranky all night. I put her down about 9pm. She slept till about 1am or so & that was it! She cried & fussed from that point on until about 6am when she passed out from crying so much & the Tylenol that I had given her. I was so frustrated & tired & heartbroken cause I just couldn't figure out what was wrong with her. Mind you, even though she is not sleeping through the night, she is a great sleeper. I can put her down anywhere & if she's even slightly sleepy she'll go down without a hitch. So when she wouldn't go back down I tried everything...I changed her diaper, I tried feeding her, I tried rocking her, & I tried letting her cry it out (which i NEVER do cause I just don't like to do that). NOTHING worked...which is totally abnormal for her....

So she finally passed out from about 6-7:30am....which is about the only sleep I got as well. Then on to Sat Dan had baseball practice & us girls just hung out. She was ok during the day...not too bad but DEF not herself. Not nearly as smiley & def NOT in a great mood. So we just chilled. Sat night rolled around & again I put her down like normal at about 9pm. She went down ok but woke up again at 1am!! And the same scenario repeated itself. It was horrible to say the least!! I was so tired i could barely keep my eyes open! And by this point I felt so bad that I couldn't figure out what was wrong with her that I broke out into tears! I could not figure out what was wrong with her and could do nothing to comfort her or make her feel better, which is of course is my main job as her mother. I could feel it in her eyes that something was wrong...

So we made it through Sat night...barely...& on to Sunday. Dan's parents came by to help me out & to try & see what was wrong with her. Mind you I had been taking her temp but it was only 99.6 at it's highest so I didn't worry about it too much...but was def monitoring it. So right when they got there she was just waking up from her nap so I decided to take her temp to see where it was at and it was 101.6!!! NO BUENO! Michelle took one look at her & said "well i can tell you right now that she def has an earache..." Poor baby girl! She was burning up, had a terrible cough, a runny nose, and just plain not happy. :-( How miserable!!

So being the new mom that I am...I called the Kaiser advise line just to be safe. The nurse had no real info for me that I didn't already know...but she was helpful in saying that I was doing everything right. Tylenol every 4 hours, keeping her cool-but not too cool, & just trying to comfort her. So that's what I did...

We decided to schedule an apt the next morning just to be safe so went to Dr. Doan's Monday morning & right away he knew something was up...he checked her out...chest, ears, mouth, nose, the whole nine yards...and sure enough it was an ear infection! Plus she also had this chest/respiratory virus called RSV. Kinda like a common cold but in the chest. I guess it's pretty common among kids who are in daycare. She he prescribed some Amoxacillin & said to keep on the Tylenol & let her get some much needed rest & she should start feeling better in a couple of days. So I stayed home for 2 days with her & wouldn't you know she is feeling 10 times better! She still has a pretty rough sounding cough but overall she seems much better. I think maybe she just needed some extra Mommy time to make her feel better ;-) hehe (which I have no complaints about...because other than the fact that she was sick...I LOVED every minute of my time with her!!)

My little one is def a trooper to go through several days of all that. I know it was rough on me so I can only imagine how rough it was on her!! She we've got her on 3.5ml of Amoxacillin every morning and night plus her Tylenol and she hates it to say the least...but I can def see it starting to work. Which is a huge relief to me because I tell you what...it ABSOLUTELY killed me to see my baby cry & scream & be in pain & not being able to do anything to help her. It was horrible! I hope that this does not repeat itself anytime soon...

So that has been our life in a nutshell for the last week or so... :-)

And since miss Addi has been sick & we've been home alot...we've been catching up on our DVR'd shows...All I have to say is The Bachelor, American Idol, and 24 ROCK! Such great entertainment! :-)

Ok well, I guess that's all for now. I have some pics of Addi that I will be posting later so look for those. Hope you all are enjoying this wonderful ;-) weather that we're having here & have a great week! Until next time...xoxo Aly