Week (or two) in review

I sat down to blog last night and then our power went out with the storms. I think this is the 4th or 5th time it has gone out in a year. Luckily it came on in the middle of the night. It wasn't too bad because I started a new book I have wanted to read and read by flashlight. :)

Last week Louisville had horrible flooding. You may have seen it on the national news. My office flooded and I couldn't work there the rest of the week. I now know what "flash flooding" means. In a matter of five minutes water was seeping in everywhere and we were running around unplugging everything and getting it off the floor! It was nice working from home and having a lighter work week. My mom came in on Wed. night so it was nice spending time with her. Windstorm, ice storm, flooding...now what? Locusts???

We went to Emma's first birthday party two weekends ago. Emma's mom is my boss, Heather, and a dear friend of mine. There were several kids there. Emma is 5 months younger and the other girl was 6 months younger than Addie and they were both bigger than her! :) Emma was a champ with the chocolate cake!

Anthony and Jenny kept Addie over night last Friday night while we attended our youth group lock-in. It was the last night with the seniors. We made it until 2:15 a.m. and called it a night because Jeremy worked on Sat. and I had to watch little miss. I haven't see that kind of night since I was in college...no wait, when she was first born. I guess our brains tend to forget those sleepless nights so moms will consider having more babies. :)

Here she is reading in a little recliner at Anthony and Jenny's house. Too cute!

Mommy's little helper...so she thinks.

On Saturday night we went to St. Joe's Catholic Picnic. It was Jeremy's, Addie's and my first Catholic picnic ever! I had to get a fish sandwich and beer. :) We had fun with Jeremy's dad and stepmom, Anthony, Jenny and Layton. Addie had so much fun she stayed up almost 2 hours past her bedtime!

At the first Catholic picnic with the family

She hasn't been on our shoulders much and she was cracking up about it!

Addie LOVES her "baby" Layton!

Layton tried his first taste of ice cream...yummy!

"I want some too!"

Addie loves to gather and hold on to small things...sticks, q-tips, spoons, etc. They seriously are some of her favorite "toys". Here she is holding on to sticks and almost poking them in her cousin's eyes...nice, huh?

We put the monkey that Addie got at the picnic around Sadie. She didn't mind too much!

Jeremy and I attempted to work in the yard on Sunday while Addie played in the baby pool. Ever since I have been back from Lexington Addison is my SHADOW! She is a BIG mama's girl lately barely even wanting her dad to hold her. I'm sure Jeremy doesn't like this much, but just a couple of months ago the roles had switched and I'm sure this will continue for a long time. She follows me everywhere so needless to say Jeremy did most of the work while I played with her. Not a bad tradeoff, huh? She still has dirt in her hair since she tried to "help" us with her shovel!

Goofy girl!

Have a great week!!!

Schwitzer Hall Reunion

Last weekend Addie and I traveled to Cincinnati to see my friend Jessica and her new baby Sophia Mae. Lindsay in Boston, Amanda in Milwaukee, Melissa in Indianapolis, Meagan in Cincy and I, with Addie, all met up there to see the new mom and little one. We all met our freshmen year at Butler and have remained friends, although we don't see each other often. The last time we were all together was April '08 for Lindsay's wedding. I brought Addie with me because they all hadn't seen her since that wedding when she was 7 weeks old. I didn't get to have too much great conversation because I was chasing around a toddler, but it was so still great to catch up! Addie was wonderful and she did really well in the car. I wished I could have stayed later to have drinks and dinner, but that couldn't happen with having Addie there. Oh well, maybe next time.

Pictures below for a quick update. We're looking forward to a weekend home!

We watched Layton the other night so we had the bumbo seat out. Addie thought she needed to sit in it instead.

Amanda holding little Sophie

Me and little Sophie

Look at the cute hat Amanda gave her!

We all met the first week of our freshmen year at Butler. My, things have changed! All beautiful as ever!

We went over to Derek and Jamie's house on Sunday to hang out by the pool. Tracy and Blake came with their daughter, Alena. They had fun playing together.

Silly girl!

Look at those curls! When she sweats or it is humid outside it looks like this!

Pool Par-tay

Here are pictures from our pool date with Leigh and Chad taken with Chad's camera. Like I said in the previous post, Addie was not feeling the pool that day and was more interested in the bucket and flirting with people. Enjoy!

Fun-filled Family Week!!!

Home, sweet, home! I got back from Lexington on Sunday and Jeremy got back from his mission trip to the Dominican Republic with the high school youth group on Tuesday. He had an amazing experience that I know he won't forget. I was very sad I couldn't go along. If you are interested in seeing pictures/videos/blogs about their trip then click here to see.

Addie has been a BIG mama's girl this week, rightfully so. She wants me to hold her a lot or read to her or put her to bed. I haven't had to work as much this week because of the month I just had so Addie and I had lots of fun together and once Jeremy was here we had a great time as a family. It is soooo nice to be a family at home together again! See the highlights below.

And this is why it was so hard to be away from her for so long! Look at that sweet smile! :)

Addie holds a phone up to her ear ALL THE TIME! It is so funny to see her walking and talking on the phone. She always closes the phone and says "bye". I know her parents are social butterflies, but I didn't think we were that bad. :)

Running from Sadie right after bath time

We went to the park and played on the playground and chased the ducks.

Taking a stroll in the park. It is crazy to look at this photo because Jeremy and I walked down this same sidewalk almost five years ago on our wedding day. We have pictures of it.

We picked up Jeremy from the airport on Tuesday. Addie was so excited to see her dad and I think he was very excited to see us both!

She was also excited to see "Aunt" Leigh back in the U.S.

Addie has never let me put bows or anything in her hair. The other day she wanted me to put some headbands on that are really too small for her. She made me put both of them on her at once. Silly goose!

This was her idea of helping me unpack.

We went to the pool with Leigh and Chad. I'll share more pictures soon from Chad's camera. Addie was more interested in playing with the bucket then getting in the pool.

A woman recently said to me, "She is too little to be walking" just because she is so petite although she is almost 17 months. I don't think I ever blogged about her 15 month appt. Goes to show we've been busy. She was 20.8 lbs (10%) and 30 1/2 inches (50%). She's still our little peanut.

She is fascinated with putting things over her head and around her neck. This is my swimsuit bottom and look...another picture with a phone!

We went to our church's Farmer's Market on Sat. morning. It is the biggest in the city now and it is awesome! I had to get a picture of Addison in her cute overalls that finally fit. A friend of ours at church made them for her right after she was born. (Addie has recently cut four molars so she constantly has her fingers in her mouth.)

Honey (Jeremy's mom) and Papaw Randy got her a wagon for her birthday, but it took a long time to get in. She loves it. Here she is talking on the phone and eating a snack. Oh, the life of a toddler!

We went over to Anthony and Jenny's on Saturday night since we hadn't seen them in a long time. Jeremy cooked up a Dominican style meal and it was delicious. Addie went to town on the rice and beans. Can you tell?

Hugging on her cousin Layton

Addie loves her Uncle Anthony

I said earlier that Addie likes to put things over head and you probably have seen a similar picture like this before. I was doing laundry today and I looked over to see this. Addie had managed to put 5 pairs of my underwear and 1 pair of Jeremy's boxers over her head and was walking around. We were cracking up! I don't know if this is a Freudian thing that will come up later in life or not. :)

Now that she is walking Addie absolutely LOVES to be outside and this weekend was the perfect weather for it! It felt like fall! She cries when we bring her inside. I think she is getting more frustrated that she can't communicate with us. She tries but we don't understand her toddler talk. My mom said when she watched her last week, "She sure does talk a lot, but I don't quite understand her what she is saying." I'm sure one day soon we will. She had a wonderful week with my mom and was spoiled rotten!

Whew, that was long and I didn't even get pictures of her eating ice cream with Aunt Leigh or our visit to Jeremy's work for lunch. As you can see we have had a fun-filled week making memories as a family! Have a great week!