She's getting so BiG!

Here are the most recent pictures of Addison hanging out around the house. She will be 3 months old tomorrow (Oct. 23rd). Time is flying by already! I am trying hard to make a concious effort to cherish every moment of it this time. I think with Peyton I was in such a rush for her to hurry up and sit up, hurry up and roll, hurry up and crawl, hurry up and walk, hurry up and get her first tooth...that I did not focus on the precious fact that she was too little to sit up, roll, crawl, walk , or get her first tooth yet. So excited for all her "firsts" it just wasn't fast enough for me. Now that she is in school and has a "social life", as much as a 6 year old can have; I am pleading with her to stop growing up so fast. She just laughs at me and says, "Sorry Mom, I can't stop." Sob...sob. I am just so thankful that I have learned that lesson now and not when she is 16. The Lord has blessed Jason and I with two adorable little girls and I plan to relish every minute of their youth! So when I start to whine about how big they are getting you'll understand why.

For all those in their 30's...

My sister forwarded this to me in an email and I just had to laugh...
Ah, the good ole' days; they'll come back to you once you start reading!

THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning ... Uphill! BOTH ways!

Yadda, yadda, yadda.

I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!

But now that I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, w e had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!! There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter ...with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!

There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ usually talked over the beginning and @#*% it all up!

We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens; it was just one screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!

Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no on screen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel.

There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons!

And we didn't have microwaves; if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire. Imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.

That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!

Toothless

Well, it FINALLY happened! After hoping, pleading, and praying for a year and a half Peyton has lost her first tooth...we'll two actually. It was not the way she was expecting to loose it or should I say them but she was so desperate she was happy with any method.

One night during dinner Peyton announced that her friend Victoria said she (Peyton) has a loose tooth. Being so obsessed with losing a tooth that is all that Peyton could talk about sometimes. I did the polite Mommy thing and said, "Oh really" as I secretly let in go in one ear and out the other. Jason on the other hand actually took a look then with shock in his voice said, "Shea...look in her mouth!" I quickly saw what he did except I thought it was a piece of white rice. What I realized was that it was not rice at all but a tooth that had broke through and was growing behind her other front bottom tooth. Needless to say I got her to the dentist and low and behold there was another tooth right next to the back one ready to pop up out too. Peyton ended up having her two front bottom teeth pulled to make room for the new guys. I hear it is common but I am a little freaked out about the new ones being so far back and needing to come forward.

Peyton was the model patient and I could not have been prouder. She sat so still and did not shed a tear. I think mainly because I pleaded with her not to scream and wake up the baby...LOL. Or perhaps she was fantasizing about the Tooth Fairy that would be visiting her that night. And that she did! I took out her special gold tooth fairy pillow that I purchased for her 5 years ago and Peyton tucked her two baby teeth in the little pocket. That night as Jason tucked her into bed she placed her little pillow under her big pillow and quickly drifted away to lullaby land. She awoke in the wee hours of the morning to use the potty and as she entered her room half asleep Jason heard her say, "Wait a minute...is this...did the...(she turned the light on)...it is...it's fairy dust from the tooth fairy!" She took out her little gold pillow and discovered the $5 and the trail of "fairy dust" from her window seal to her pillow that the Tooth Fairy had left behind. She is one happy toothless kid!

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