Sick of Being Sick

I am still sick. Not only am I still sick, but I have felt worse today then I have this whole sickness. I have been sick since last Wednesday (Dec. 31). The doctor I went to on Friday said that I had a virus (which of course they can't do anything for) and that with rest and lots of fluids I would be feeling better by Monday. Today is Monday and I feel horrible. I called the doctor today and they said because I am pregnant they would prefer that I see my OB because they did not feel comfortable prescribing meds for me. They said my OB would know better what I can take. I called my OB and THANK GOD, he was able to prescribe a cough syrup and antibiotic and I also have an appointment with him tomorrow for a check up. I am so tired of being sick. I haven't had a good night of sleep in days. And my wonderful husband has been taking care of me and Addison and trying to work.

Even in my sickness I do have two praises. I am first thankful to God that as of yet Addison has not gotten sick. I have been very careful around her and so far she has shown no signs of getting sick. I am also thankful to God for my wonderful mother, who on very short notice (only a few hours) was driving to meet Daniel in Winston Salem to pick up Addison. Daniel has to go back to work and I CAN NOT take care of a one year old in my current state. So it is a huge blessing that my mother would be willing to take care of Addison for a few days.

Hopefully the next time I blog, I will no longer be sick!

The Growing TO DO LIST, AHHHHHH!

These days I can never seem to get ahead. My To Do List just keeps getting bigger and bigger and many of the items on the list have so called "due dates." For example, we still don't have a room cleaned out for the baby. I have 4 months (give or take a week) to clean out the office, make room in the bonus room, move everything out of the office into the bonus room and set up Addison's room, so that the baby can sleep in the nursery. Setting up the room involves putting together an old crib that has no instructions and is probably missing parts. We are very grateful that our friends gave us this crib, so we don't have buy another one, but I am not looking forward to trying to put it together. Now, 4 months may sound like plenty of time, but I have been working a little each week for the past two months and have not made much progress. We just have TOO MUCH STUFF and not enough room.

Since I spend most of my day chasing after a 1 year old and just getting the day to day things done around our house, that really doesn't leave me much time on a normal day to work on my To Do List. And when I am presented with a day that Daniel does not have to work and we don't have anything planned, I always get SICK! Like yesterday. We had nothing planned, Daniel was home, I could have gotten a lot of stuff done, but I was SICK. I went to the doctor today and even asked the doctor; "does resting while you are sick really make you get better faster or is that just what you are suppose to say." The doctor looked at me funny for a minute and said; "no, resting really does make you get better faster." Then she sent me home with no miracle drug, but a prescription to rest and drink lots of fluids.

Another item on my list, that is really concerning me, is not even something that I can do. One of the posts on our front porch is rotting and needs to be replaced before it gives out (yet another unknown "due date"). I have no idea even where to start and Daniel is very busy, so he hasn't had time to get to it either. We have know that we need to replace it for over 6 months now and still we have not gotten around to doing it. I know that in 4 months, if it is not done by then, it is not going to get done for a LONG time. I just don't know how much time we have left before it rots to the point of collapsing.

I also need to go through Addison's old clothes to see what a boy can wear. We spent lots of time organizing Addison's clothes into boxes by age and labeling everything, so that for the next child it would be easy to get things out as we needed them. What we didn't do, was organize it by "girly" and "gender neutral." If we had been smart, we would also have divided out what was "girly" and what was neutral. But since we didn't, I have to go through EVERYTHING, to see what we have.

So these are just a few of the items on my To Do List. And every week more items are being added, while not many are being marked off as DONE. I am probably complaining more right now than I should be, but I am SICK and all I am doing is resting (doctor's orders), so what else do I have to do but blog about the things I should be getting done, but can't.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

A Day at the Beach

Here is video of Addison's first trip to the beach. She had such a good time. She was surrounded by an entourage of cameras. I had a video camera, Roz had a video camera, mom had a camera and Tate had a camera and we were all following Addison everywhere she went on the beach. I am sure we looked pretty funny.

Funny Little Things

Addison does so many funny little things. Daniel and I have been surprised by how much Addison makes us laugh. From trying to copy what we do, to just doing random crazy things. Well, today she decided that she wanted to wear mommy's shoes. She was actually able to walk around in them pretty well. Below are some pictures. More pictures are on Addison's Page.

Boy, Oh Boy!

Yes, we found out today we are having a boy. We are very excited. He is healthy and we got some cute pictures of him.

Addison imitating Bailey

Day after day Bailey lays in front of the fireplace. Well today Addison decided that she too wanted to lay in front of the fireplace.

Quick Summary of what has been going on

Okay, so I know I am a horrible blogger. I haven't written anything in months. So I will try to give a short summary of what has been going on with us.

Addison had her 15 month doctor's appointment. She weighed 24lbs 4oz and was 32 inches long. She is still in the 90th percentile for height. The doctor said that Addison was doing great and was impressed with the number of words Addison knows already.

Addison's list of words at 15 months: back, bath, dog, duck, nose, eye, mouth, thank you, banana, night night, no, more, momma, dada, hat, shoe, and book.

She may be saying more words, but these are the ones we understand.

We took a crazy trip just before Thanksgiving. In five days we went from Raleigh to Savannah, to Florida, to Myrtle Beach and then back to Raleigh. Addison did great. Thanks to a friend (thanks Trish) who let us borrow a DVD player, Addison was entertained for hours by movies.

For Thanksgiving we went to visit my family in the mountains. I was sick the whole time. I think I had a stomach virus. I lost 5 pounds over one week, which normally would not be a bad thing, but since I am pregnant, it is not good.

This coming Friday (Dec. 5th) we get another ultra sound and we should be able to see if the baby is going to be a girl or a boy.

I have added some new pictures to Addison's website, so check it out.

So, that is a quick summary of our lives right now. I will try to be better about blogging.