Road Trips!

We have taken our girls on two road trips in two weeks. I think all four us will be happy to NOT be in a car for a very long time! Two weekends ago we went to Vero for Ansley's first visit to Mimi & Granddaddy's house. We had a wonderful time as usual and Addison caught a BIG fish in their pond with Titi. Talk about being proud!

For Memorial Day weekend the whole Bond family traveled 7 1/2 hours to N GA to a beautiful lodge in the mountains. We were celebrating Reva's 60th bday. Addison and Caleb had a blast spending 3 full days exploring in the woods together. Addison unfortunately for me, loves bugs. Charles went white water rafting for the first time and had a great time even though I was told he spent more time in the river than in the boat! :) Addison also got to ride a horse!!! She was so cute on that thing but I pray she never asks for mommy and daddy to buy her one.

Addison has recently started a new hobby....screaming. For no particular reason with no warning she will just start screaming the word "NO"! It is rather irritating and Charles and I are at a loss on how to get it to end. We tried spanking and didn't like that approach, time-out does absolutely nothing for her (she will do something wrong and put herself in time out and then enjoy every second of it) so on the way home we tried soap in her mouth. We had our first "if you do it again I am pulling this car over" situation. Charles took her into the bathroom and put foam soap in her mouth. She looked at Charles without any care in the world and said "Daddy, that tastes like soap. I don't like it." Then came out and said to me "Mommy, soap tastes bland." HELLO! That was suppose to traumatize her enough to stop screaming and she didn't even care. I can't even begin to imagine what her teenage years are going to bring. God must be paying Charles back because I, of course, was a perfect child! :)

will post pics soon!

1 Month Old

Yay for bows!

Lookin more like daddy everday...and lovin her more everday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She truly is sweet as pie!

Seak Peak

At Ansley's newborn pictures taken when she was a mere 4 days old! Addison still loves giving her "baby sis" LOTS of kisses!

She weighed in at 7lbs 6oz on her birthday, dropped to 6lbs 12oz and by 19 days old she was up to a healthy 8 lbs 13oz!!! (they are suppose to be back to birth weight by two weeks old...think we have that covered)

The Dr commented on how "BLUE" Ansley's eyes are but we are not getting our hopes up since Addison's were steely blue/green until she was over a year old then turned to beautiful brown......

I have ordered announcements so hopefully they don't take me too long to get addressed and out in the mail!

Addison had CBC this past week and her counts continue to look better and better! Her WBC and RBC competely normal and platelets increased another 5,000!

WBC 6.36

HBG 11.2

Platelets 65

ANC 2,050

We are SO THANKFUL!

Newborn Demands

It's amazing how fast you forget how demanding caring for a new little life can be...throw a two year old toddler on top of that and you officially have a full day!

One thing I needed to be reminded of was to never put the outfit I actually want Ansley to wear for the day on first because 9 times out of 10 she will have a diaper explosion and I will just have to change her outfit....so we put option 1 on second!

While in the hospital we had to supplement with formula a bit because my colostrum was not enough to satisfy Miss Ansley before my milk came in. This was hard on me but Charles and I had decided in advance we didn't want starvation to be the culprit of a crying baby when there are plenty of ways to prevent it. Ansley really only cries if hungry or if she is passing gas..so far so good! Yesterday was my first day not having to supplement at all!!! YAY!!! She was only getting about 2 ounces of formula and we will still give it to her if I have not been able to pump a bottle (Pumping is absolutely dreadful and it takes me forever to get even a 2 ounce bottle pumped). However, I completely forgot how demanding breast feeding is. I literally feed Ansley every hour and a half. Needless to say Ansley is plumping up quite nicely and we are eager to see how much weight she has gained at her Wed dr apt! We will keep you posted!