Dress Up

This is an example of what Addalie looks like from day to day. She always wants her pretty dress on, or her "ballerina" gown, and always needs a hat of some sorts. Today she had on her clothes, her gown, her robe, my gown, and my robe, all at the same time. I wish I'd gotten a picture of that!

Yeah, I'm Behind

I'm behind on life. In the past two months I've had a baby, celebrated a couple of holidays, moved, and had about four different illnessess invade my house. I feel like everything I know or think about is all wrapped up in me. There is nothing beyond me and my family, and I hate that. There is a reason selfish people aren't as happy. God designed us to be a part of something bigger than ourselves, to live in community, to serve others. Last night at Real Life Group, we were presented with a free date night by the others in our group. I was so humbled and so blessed by it. I mean, I'm all wrapped up in my life and they were concerned about us! I'm so thankful for those guys, I can't even tell you.

Here is a random cute picture of Addalie rocking with her crazy haired dolls. She wears a hat pretty much every day.

Last week were were treated to a visit from Mama Brown and Papa Brown. They got to meet Asher for the fiirst time and see our new house. We spent some time in downtown Austin and just enjoyed hanging out! We love when family comes to visit!

Sick House

We are sick here. We've been sick for three weeks here! I've never experienced this in our family before, especially with Daniel who is rarely sick. He's had like three different things and cannot seem to kick it. Please, please pray for us! We need to be better! The kids have actually been ok, praise God. Anyway, right now I'm functional, just not great, and I was able to spend some good time outside with Addalie today!

And now I'm unable to get any pictures off my card for some reason, and it's been one of those nights where I can't seem to get anything done, so I'm calling it quits. Good night!

Pics of the Kids

 I adore my kids. Everyday I look at them and can't believe God gave them to me to take care of. They are incredibly trying, especially my soon-to-be two year old, but all that fades away when they smile at me. Toeday Asher took a good nap and Addalie and I were able to just play outside together and we made some memories. I never want to forget her saying "Yay Mama!" as I took a turn down the slide, or her giggle as I pushed her higher in the swing. She then threw a fit when I had to come in to feed her baby brother, but I will try to just remember the smiles and the giggles.

Asher smiles alot these days too, but it's pretty difficult to get a good picture of it. But anyway, here are some recent pics of the kiddos.

Addalie has cradle cap pretty badly so we've been using dandruff shampoo on her. I leave the room for a sec and come back to find her squeezing the blue shampoo in the water. She loved taking a blue bath! And her whole body is flake-free.

Addalie loves sitting on the couch with her brother and covering up with the Superman snuggie. Asher is pretty fascinated with Addalie as well. By the way, I'm taking suggestions on what to do with my child's hair. She always looks like a homeless child these days!

Asher went for his 2month check up on Friday. He weighed 10 lbs, 10 oz (25 percentile) and was 23 in long (50th percentile). He got some medicine for his reflux, so hopefully eating will be a little easier on him, but is otherwise doing fantasitc!

So Much Has Happened...

 It's been literally ages since I updated this thing, but give me a break, I have had a few things going on! I mean, I have a baby, frantically look for a place to live, find one and move within a few days, and I've been without internet for a great deal of that time. So I think I'm doing pretty good here.

First of all, I now live in a house! It was really frustrating trying to find a place, and we thought we weren't going to find one in time. Then at the last minute, a house popped up that was a price reduction. I went to see it that day, and three days later, we moved in. It was like God hand picked the place for us! It's been great to have, get this, one floor! I haven't had that since we lived in El Paso. And it's fabulous! We also have this amazing playscape in the backyard for Addalie. She thinks she's in heaven with a swing set.

A lot more has happened lately, but I'm just going to post house pics now and tell you more later. I forogt to take outside pics, so I'll post those later too.

This is the dining room that we converted into a playroom for the kiddos. It's just to the left as you walk in the door.

                                     

 The living room is at the back of the house. I couldn't get the pics in order, so bear with me here.

                                            Thats the back door.

                           I love my living room. It's nice and cozy.

The kitchen is accessed from the entry hallway. It's not as big and wonderful as my kitchen in the apartment, but I still love it. It has a pantry! Haven't had one of those in a while either.

                                     View of bedroom from master bath.

Biggest bathroom I've ever had!

                                          We had to paint the kids room. It was bright yellow.

Addalie reading her books in the rocker!

Guest bedroom

We don't have a bed right now, so we just have a ghetto air mattress. We can sure make leftovers work can't we?

Kids and guest bath.

Addalie wanted to wear her birthday hat all day.

View from front door. This wide hallway goes all the way to the living room.

It's not a palace, but we are so thankful for it. Hopefully we will be here for longer than a year! This girl is tired of moving!

5 Weeks Ago

It's hard to believe that our little boy is over 5 weeks old!  It's even harder to believe that in no time he will be the same size as Addalie and we will wonder where the time went.  Asher is growing like crazy is such a good baby.  We had to take him to the doctor on Monday for a check up, and he weighed in at 9lbs 5oz, which means he gained almost 2 lbs in less than 3 weeks!  We'll be starting him in on the weights soon. 

For Asher's birth we were so blessed to have our great friend Susan take pictures for us.  That was one of our biggest disappointments when Addalie was born because we didn't have anyone there to take pictures during or afterwards since we were in Ohio.  Now we haven't been around a lot of birth photographers, but we can guarantee that Susan Kedroski is the best by far!  We are so thankful for her and the memories we will always have from the moments she captured.  Thanks Susan!

Here are some of our favorites....

Deciding on whether or not to have an epidural...

1:52 pm, Asher is here

Our Mommies 

Addalie meeting her new bubba 

Already a Texas fan.  Hook Em' 

And now here is our boy at 5 weeks 

Lately...

So I've been terrible about blogging, or communicating with the outside world in general. I've relied on Daniel to communicate with people and keep the blog up, and look how he has slacked this past week! Just kidding, I honestly don't know what I would do without him. Since we had Asher, we have truly had to be more of a team and I have a whole new appreciation for him!

So... what's been going on with us? Not a whole lot, really. We took a quick trip to Welch last week to see my parents and let Asher meet some family. I just needed to see my parents, you know? We are looking at houses to rent pretty often, and so far have come up with nothing. Unfortunately, we will have to raise our price range if we want anything decent. We have gone back and forth about possibly staying in this apartment, but if we are going to pay that much and are not doing CARES, we would prefer a house with a yard and no stairs! I had no problem with these stairs until I got pregnant, and since I've had Asher, the dislike has grown to hatred! I have a toddler who will hardly go up and down on her own, and when she does, it takes twenty minutes, so I give in and haul both children up and down two flight of stairs way too often. I've started neglecting the upstairs rooms because I just don't want to go through the trouble to go up there! Please pray that we find a house that works for us soon!

I'm still not in the swing of not working or not doing CARES. I'm grateful that I don't have to worry about it because the kids take up all my time, but it's the first time I haven't had a side job on my mind always. I am used to getting out more! I'm kinda ready for summer when all the moms from church have fun play dates and activities planned frequently! I mean, I'm super busy around the house, but I just feel better when I spend time out and about. Again, I think a yard would help! Ok, enough rambling about nothing interesting, here are a few pics! My mom threatened me not to put the pig tails one up, but what's she gonna do about it?