Crazy Christmas!

Hope everyone had great holidays! We had a wonderful weekend filled with great family, great food, and great fun! We went all over the place and got to see almost everyone. We were all spoiled rotten. Among all of our rushing around, we even got to make a few memories just the three of us! My favorite was seeing the look on Addilynn’s face when she saw her Santa gift!

We were very fortunate to spend the holidays with the people we love. There have been a lot of things this year that have hurt a lot of people and we have to remember each day what we have, and the people in our lives that we love. This holiday season we were very thankful for that and that we have been so blessed.

Here are a few Christmas pictures!

Addilynn not paying attention to pictures and busy texting all her friends.

The best picture I could get of the cousins hopefully someone else was able to get a better one. Camber and Addilynn Christmas Eve 2010

The three wee ones. Trying to get a good picture of three babies is next to impossible. Camber, Harlen, and Addilynn.

This may not be the best picture of the three of us but this is my favorite. We started a new tradition for our family. It is a fun yet risky one. We have decided to let Addilynn pack her blankets and pillow out in front of the tree and fall asleep waiting for Santa. Hopefully this one doesn’t bite us in the bottom!!!

Santa CAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and boy do I like turtles….

I have had the week off so we have been doing so much fun stuff together. We have been making a lot of trips up to see Auntie Jaylee. She had her surgery on Tuesday, and has been in a lot of pain. We really hope she starts to feel better soon. The Dr. said everything went well but the one tear was worse than he thought so she now has six weeks of non weight bearing instead of three. Poor Auntie! Addilynn hasn’t worn a diaper during the day since Sunday. She has been doing great. She still has accidents and I wouldn’t say she is fully trained, but very very close. It has been so nice to have the time off and get her ready for the next week at daycare which I know will be a challenge. I hope she does well. She had her first nap time accident today and it was very sad she woke up saying potty and I ran in snatched her up and ran for the bathroom only about halfway there I felt warm running down my side. Poor little baby!!! I have learned to not be afraid of my daughters urine through our journeys this week Today, her nap time accident was her only one! She has even been pooping on the potty. One funny thing is she thinks farts are poop so every time she farts she says poop and we rush to the potty.

These pictures are from today we had to shovel the driveway and just had to take a break for some sledding party madness (some of you will know what I mean when I say this). Only this time it was a little different than the old days sledding party madness. This consisted of me and only me dragging her around in a sled. Up and down the roads by our house. We were outside for about an hour and a half and then spent a half hour throwing a fit because she wanted to go back outside. Mom was ready but she WASN”T!!!

quick post before the rush

An early Christmas present

Things are still busy here in the Turner household. Last night we started our 4 days of Christmas. I cooked homemade chicken noodle soup and bread bowls and we ate opened gifts and enjoyed each others company. Mom, Ralph, Bri, Ryder, Camber, Paige, Dustin and I were all part of night 1s festivities! Addilynn got all sorts of goodies from everyone and mommy and daddy got a bedroom makeover! We were so excited about it.

Addilynn has been learning so much these days. She now says bless you when you sneeze, barks, begs and fetches like the dogs, and much more I can't think of now! She never fails to amaze us with her new discoveries. I can't wait to see what she has in store for us next!

Well, the madness starts again today so we will post after the craziness of the holidays. Hope everyone has a great Christmas!

Addilynn looks so grown up in this picture. This was before the Michael Family Christmas party!

Her first gift from the Michael party’s Santa

As good as it gets with two dogs and a baby!

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Getting in the Holiday Spirit

Oh man I am way behind all thanks to a certain blue screen of death that decided to magically appear on our computer screen. It is so nice to finally have it back but now to remember what went on since I last posted!

Lets start with Auntie Jaylee’s last full basketball game of the year. My heart is breaking as I write this because I can only imagine how she feels. The girls did great especially my little sister who to me was the star of the show! She played like an All-Star it was a great game the girls really look like they can play this year. I was so proud of my lil sis! Then Saturday Auntie Jaylee got hurt at her game against Kootenai. We didn’t end up going, but she was injured by a couple of girls pushing her from behind. Come to find out after an agonizing wait Jaylee with be undergoing surgery on the 28th for two torn meniscus and a torn ACL. We are all devastated. She is missing out on so much of her junior year it just isn’t fair. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers and hope for a speedy recovery. They say it takes about six months.

Saturday while all of this was going on. We were at Christmas in St. Maries. It was very entertaining. Addilynn got her picture with Santa which she wasn’t a fan of and we even heard stories about Camber being in hysterics! So both girls didn’t like Santa much this year I wonder what Christmas Eve will be like???? Addilynn, Dustin, and I watched the parade of lights, or should I say Dustin and I did. Addilynn hid her head the entire time. Hmmm I’m beginning to think this child has harsh feelings toward Christmas.

Sunday we went to find a tree and sadly Auntie Jaylee missed her first year. This was the third annual tree hunt/cookie making party! All the hard work was left to Dustin and Auntie P. We looked all over after a sleigh ride through the forest and finally found the perfect tree. Afterward we made cookies and had a blast decorating the tree.

Here are some pictures from the last weeks happenings!

 

 

 

Finally got the PERFECT tree!

 

Making cookies! YUMMY

 

I think Addilynn ate more raw cookie dough and candy toppings than any 17 month old should!

She even found a candy cane to munch on!

Auntie helping Addilynn put her first decoration on the tree!

Ok Auntie… I can do it myself now!

Thanksgiving and Such

I was very sad to find Addilynn Wednesday with a runny nose, especially at the start of our vacation! Luckily for the first time… Miss Addilynn fought off her cold and did NOT, I repeat did NOT get an ear infection!!! Yay for no ear infections. We are not in the clear yet because she still has a bit of a runny nose but I just thought I would share the good news. This first statement should be an indication of how are Thanksgiving went. Addilynn was sick and surprisingly enough so was mommy. Usually mom is nursing a sick baby and hubby but this time mom lost or should I say Dad lost and I got to be the baby!!

Here are some adventures from this last week

Addilynn’s “smile” face. We went road hunting which was Addilynn’s first trip this year and was her last as well. She screamed the entire way. I’m pretty sure she was on team deer.

 

These are a couple pictures from her first gymnastics class. She loved it as you can tell from the pictures. She is a blur in most of them. We are signed up to go every Wednesday so we are looking forward to our trip to the studio tomorrow. Addilynn jumped on the trampoline, played on the bars, played with a parachute, jumped on the springboard, did summersaults down the wedge, and walked on a balance beam. Mom even got in on the action and did a front flip on the bars and paid the price the next day. Being out of dance for about 13 years didn’t help the situation.

Addilynn jumping on the spring board holding onto Coach’s hands

Addilynn’s first sledding adventure! What a blast. I got to be the photographer while dad pulled her around in the sled. They went around and around the street. We even took turns going down the hill with her in our laps. Mom lost out in this adventure too. I slipped on the ice. OUCH That seems to be the story of my life these days… ouch!

Our 1st Thanksgiving dinner. We didn’t manage to get a picture of Addilynn in her princess dress because she was very tired by the second dinner. I’m so bummed that I missed the photo op. She looked so cute in her maroon and cream holiday dress. May I remind you that she was sick so that this next story doesn’t sound quite so bad!

Addilynn got in a lot of trouble at the second dinner. She has a stuffed pig that she absolutely loves so I thought it would be a good idea to take it to dinner. Well, not so much. Her second cousin Harlen wanted her pig and to keep it out of his clutches she bit him. Big time biting too. So hard she was shaking. Poor little guy he didn’t know what happened he just kept going around showing everyone his teeth marks saying, “Addi.” Unfortunately this wasn’t the last time she bit him either. It happened about 3 more times before we decided it was time to leave!

Here are a couple more sledding pictures. We love taking her outside because this is when she behaves the most. She is such an adventurer that she is only happy if she is outdoors! Well, hopefully I caught everyone up to speed. I will post a couple more pictures if possible on our 365  blog if our computer allows it. Recently we have encountered the “Blue screen of death.” Sounds scary huh??

Oh what fun…

 

Addilynn and I had a GREAT weekend! She was so good and we had so much fun. Friday we went and visited some old friends. Addilynn got to try a fun dip, which I was against, but she managed to stay up until 10. Go figure! Saturday, we went to visit my papa Frank and Grandma Doris in Emida then back home for a nap. We also went to visit Kari and Darrin and luckily Jeanette and Fred stopped by too so we scored big time! Then our last stop was a quick visit with Hallie but by this time Addilynn was beat so we couldn’t stay long. Gosh we went all over to visit people! HMMM I think its time we stayed home and let them come to us! After all that running around we crashed pretty early and Sunday Dad came home! We missed him tons but he did bring home a stinky buck so now we wont go hungry for awhile. We were so proud of him. Here are a couple pictures of what we did this weekend.

Addilynn and I made Oobleck. If you don’t remember what that is, it is corn starch and water. The consistency of Oobleck is somewhat interesting and Addilynn thought so too. She loved it and we had so much fun making a mess.

 

This is what Addilynn thought of our self portrait session! She thought it was silly that we took about 20 pictures of the two of us and only a couple turned out half way useable. BUT I did complete the challenge Nanny M. We did get one decent picture of the two of us! Thank you so much for the idea it really makes a lot of sense.

Here is Dustin’s deer if you don’t like hunting. Don’t look!

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New words

Things have been busy as usual in the Turner house! Addilynn is growing like a weed and continues to amaze us. She is talking much better now and is starting to communicate with words instead of grunts and squeals(although she still chooses to use those a lot of the time to get her point across). Granted most of her words are part of her “brat” vocabulary they are still words and phrases. Some new ones are: mine, Go AWAY, Why??, Doris, Jaylee, Nona, Help, All Done, eat, poo, juice, cheese, yogurt, milk, cracker, see you later, the end, love you, ouwee (her way of saying ouch), and she will try to say pretty much anything you ask her to but it mostly comes out as syllables. She does get frustrated because she has a hard time with t sounds they come out more as a p sound, and most of her phrases and words others can’t understand just mom and dad, but she is getting there! I’m sure I’ve forgotten some of her new tricks but you get the idea!

We have been busy but to tell you the truth I can’t even think right now with what. This weekend Addilynn and I are having a girls weekend while dad has his “man” weekend. I picture ours being much more fun and warm for that matter! All in all I hope he gets something good to fill the freezer with.

This just in… the boys are great and someone had some luck!!! Who oh who was it??

Halloween and updates

 

We have had a busy few weeks. Addilynn’s ear infection came back (we think) and she was a terror for couple weeks and now she is back to our sweet little angel. Thank goodness! Mommy and Daddy are much happier when our little princess is happy.

Auntie Jaylee had her volleyball districts and state, in which they got second. Auntie got all league! GO AUNTIE. Also cousin Tia got all league and MVP of the league, and Aunt missy got coach of the year for the second year in a row. We have some all stars on our hands.

Now it is on to basketball. Papa (my dad) got the varsity girls basketball coaching position and we are all really excited for him. Auntie P has her first game of the season this weekend to kick off her basketball season. We can’t wait to watch more sports. Hopefully Miss Addilynn can sit through more indoor sporting events. We had to leave two games in one week because she decided she didn’t want to be there anymore! She calls the shots around this place if you can’t tell.

This last weekend was great. We got to spend lots of time with friends and family. Friday was my annual planning for work and I got to hang out with some of my favorite people all day. We had lunch and were treated to pedicures after. What a great boss I have. Saturday we went shooting and we both did horrible but luckily our friend Cody was there to sight our guns in for us. Trust me I am not proud but I did get some good shots in with the 410 I am a master with that thing!! Hopefully when the pressure is on this year we can both come through! Also, Saturday night we had friends over and had some of our favorite overnight guests! I love when my little man comes to stay and Kyle and Alaina too I guess. We had a great time painting pumpkins and talking. Here are a few pictures.

Addilynn painting her pumpkin with pudding paint!

 

 

Addilynn was a Ladybug for Halloween this year. Note to self… NEVER make your 1 year old wear wings they are more work for yourself!! All in all we had a great night and weekend.

I am looking forward to my day off tomorrow. We will start with a walk and coffee with Nona (My stepmom), park with Jessica and Kelby, and then dinner with Grammy (my mom). We may not get the housework done but we should have a good day! Hope everyone's week is starting off great!

Feeling better everyday

Things have been looking up since her double ear infection days! Addilynn is feeling much better and is starting to get back to her old eating, sleeping, and playing habits.

  Last weekend we went up to camp Saturday and it was great. It was just the three of us and I have to say I LOVE FALL CAMPING! It was almost better than summer. The smells, sounds (or lack of), and a crisp air that makes you huddle closer to the fire is what camping is all about. It was sad but happy all that the same time. We ended up pulling our camper home and getting it winterized just in time for the first freeze.

We made a trip to the pediatrician’s office Wednesday to find out that Addilynn’s left ear is still not looking as well as she would like. She said we would check it again in a month to make sure it is healing but if it still has fluid in it or if she gets another infection we will be going to the ENT. I kind of have mixed emotions about this because I definitely don’t want her to go through what she did the last couple weeks, but I also don’t want to see her go through the surgery. From what I understand it is pretty common and a quick procedure so those are a couple things that are setting our minds at ease.

Not much else has been going on other than Addilynn’s fits have been getting a little less scary but still monstrous. She screamed almost the entire time we were shopping in CDA yesterday. I never know what to do in those situations because a lot of people don’t believe in spanking so that is out unless I want to get cps called on me and she doesn’t respond to my “mean” voice. Hmmm I guess we will continue to try and find something that works to snap her out of her rages.

This is a picture from the park she loves enjoying the sunshine but once we get there it is a battle to make her leave. Her and Kelby love to play around on the slides and swings. She even got her first hickey from Kelby. He bit her right on the neck and it made a hickey mark. I thought it was pretty funny but Addilynn sure didn’t!

What a week

UGH I’ve been working on a post called “Remembering Summer” for over a week now and finally went to finish it and it was GONE! It took over a week to write it and now I can’t even remember what it said. It has been that type of week for us… blurry and a mess!

It has been a crazy couple of weeks. I wish I could remember what has gone on to update everyone but my lack of sleep and tired body are keeping my mind in a fog!

I do remember the Buddy Walk it was great! We had so much fun and can’t wait to do it again next year. Addilynn started off with the group in her stroller but before it was half way through she decided she wanted to walk. After this kid gets something in her mind, she doesn’t forget about it. I used to think she would always be easily distracted but boy was I wrong. She is as stubborn and bull headed as her mommy! Needless to say, Addilynn walked almost the entire way. She did hitch a ride with one lady who was in a wheel chair. Her name was Kathy. Addilynn thought that was pretty neat for about 5 min then she was ready to walk on her own again. Lets just say we started out in the front of the line and came in closer to last. We didn’t mind though it wasn’t a race… that was Sunday!!! After the walk we had lunch at Roadhouse and it was amazing like usual! Addilynn even got down and danced again with the music she loves that place!

Sunday was my first race!!! It was great. I was able to jog (which is my run… just ask my family) the entire way! I was really proud of myself. Not to openly pat myself on the back, but it took a lot for this lazy girl to get into shape for that!   It will definitely be a tradition next year too.

Now on to this weeks DRAMA!!!!

Addilynn has been crabby for about a month now. I didn’t realize it had been that long until I was reading back through my old blogs. What would I do without them??? Finally after running a fever Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night we decided to take her in. Now for those of you who are judging our parenting skills thinking “why did they wait so long??”. I’m going to tell you why. Most of the time we take her into the Dr. at the first sign of a runny nose, cough, or fever, but this time we decided to wait it out so we weren’t jumping the gun. We did call the ER and check with a Dr. to make sure there was nothing they could do for just a fever and cough and they said no of course. So finally by Thursday I just had a bad feeling so I had Dustin take her in that morning. She had a full blown ear infection in her L ear and one starting in her R. Wow double ear infections, by this time I was feeling pretty low.

To cut my rambling down, I will cut to the chase. Addilynn was resistant to the Amoxicillin and by Saturday when she made her second trip to the Dr. she had two raging infections and the pediatrician couldn’t even see either ear drum only puss. The last few days have been frustrating and sad because we know how much pain she must be in, but she wont let us comfort her when she has her rage blackouts (more on that later).  We have been exhausting our resources for sitters since she can’t go to daycare in her condition when today we decided she just had to go. This made me sad to think she would have to be around a lot of screaming kids. Lucky for us, my mom knocked on our door at 7 and said she had to take a vacation day to take care of her grandbaby! WOOO HOO what a relief.

Today Addilynn is feeling better and I came home to a clean house, clean sheets, clean baby, lunch and dinner, baby snacks, and a bag of cat litter. Don’t ask me why the litter… apparently in all this madness I’ve been slacking on cat duties:) How she manages to get all that done I don’t know. I can barely go to the bathroom when I’m home with her during the day!! Thank goodness for family we have been so blessed this week to have such great family to pick up our slack!!! Thanks to Ggma Jeanette, Nona, and Grammy you guys ROCK!!!!

 

  Daddy and Addilynn at the buddy walk and Addilynn reading one of Beau’s books

This is what I’ve been seeing the last week I haven’t been able to put her down so no good pictures to update with after these they are all frown faces and side shots of her head!

This next part might be a little disturbing to some because it was definitely disturbing to us. Addilynn has been acting crazy the last couple days. I’m not sure if it is just pain, or if she has figured out how to play the cards to get attention. Her first fit was the worst and they have been continuing ever since. Sunday we laid her down for a nap and the rage started. Now keep in mind I said earlier that this child is stubborn and mean so she normally throws some pretty good fits but this by far topped them all. She was in her crib throwing what I thought was a normal fit. She usually kicks the wall and screams for a bit but then realizes she needs to sleep and does. Her screaming escalated to one we don’t hear much so we checked on her. She had blood from ear to ear and looked like the joker it was also all over her crib rail and mattress. She was bleeding so bad from her mouth I couldn’t tell where it was coming from. From the blood smears we came to the conclusion that what we thought was her kicking was her pounding her head into the crib. This was followed by more of those same fits where she would throw herself into the wall and bang her head repeatedly. I’m not so sure why this is all happening, but if anyone has any ideas feel free to let me know. Her pediatrician is calling me tomorrow night to determine if she needs to go in for rounds of antibiotic shots and I am going to let her know about her new form of crazy.

Crabby Patty

 

This was another busy weekend. We started out thinking we were going to go camping but then realized we needed a weekend to stay home and get some things done. Ya Right!!! Our house is still a mess, yard hasn’t been mowed in at least a month, laundry piled high, and dishes in the sink. Someday I will get my house back in order, but for now I have my hands full with my little beast!

Friday Dustin and I relaxed and watched TV together (something we don’t get to do very often). We could have gotten the house picked up, but it was our “date” night. We were still in bed by 10:30 because Dustin was going out bow hunting for the first time ever the next morning! He took his class this spring and finally got to go out and test his hand with a bow. He didn’t see/hear much. One elk bugled and he saw four grouse. I was really hoping that he would come home with a great big 6x6 and we could celebrate.

While daddy was out trying to stock the freezer Addilynn and I hung out. Our daily tasks were listening to Undo It about 20 times, Screaming/crying, going to Papa’s birthday dinner, and crashing out at 8:30 :) Addilynn had a rough day and so did mommy. For some reason she was fussy all day. She even screamed bloody murder from St. Maries to Emida!!! While kicking the back of my seat repeatedly. I thought fits were supposed to come at a later stage??? I have been thinking it was teeth but who knows. If she isn’t her normal happy self by Wednesday I might take her in just to get her ears checked. I never know if her teething is affecting her nose and ears or if she really is sick. She seems to be a what some moms call “BAD” teether. Every time she gets a tooth (or in her case 4 since that has been the pattern after her first two) she gets a fever, runny nose, ear problems, and doesn’t sleep. Hopefully our next baby will be a “GOOD” teether :) Today, we went to the dreaded Coeur d’ Alene and did some shopping. We got to eat at Texas Roadhouse and it was just as delicious as the first time I ate there! Addilynn was great and loved her lunch. She even got to bust a move with the employees when they did their line dancing! We did find out one thing that is for sure now… She isn’t allergic to peanuts! If she would have been I’m pretty sure that would be the place for anaphylactic shock!  When we got into town Addilynn finished her nap and then it was off to Shena and Pete’s for football. She got to play with the Barden girls and her best buddy Tucker. She can even say Tucker’s name. They are pals!

Now Addilynn is finally asleep and mommy is right behind her! This week should be a little less chaotic but who knows what this crazy life will bring!

Here are a few pictures from the weekend. Enjoy.

 

Addilynn and I spent some time out in the yard Saturday morning before her change in behavior! She looked pretty stylish in her bandana I thought!

Addilynn got to be the first one to taste Papa Frank’s birthday cake. Yummy!

Hanging out with her best bud Tucker at Pete and Shena’s house