Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Week of Family Fun

Life has been a bit of a whirlwind lately with wedding festivities filling up weekends and Charles starting a new job and the girls keeping me busy. I spent the last weekend in Sept away from BOTH my girls to be at my sister's bachelorette party. I am happy to report I had a blast and my girls did great without me. It was Ansley's first overnight without me...or should I say me without her. I was extremely nervous and worried sick but in the end she was wonderful for my mom! My aunt Cheryl got the spend the weekend with the girls as well and I was happy she got a taste of their sweetness!
I came home to a house full of our family from TN. Charles's cousin Erin, her two children Ross and Sarah, and Aunt Merc were here. I was so excited to spend the week with them and Ross and Addison had a BLAST playing together! Ross is 3 and Sarah is 8 months old. It was neat to watch Ansley and Sarah interact with each other. We would plop them on the ground facing each other and lay toys all around them and they would play and smile and share (or take) toys from each other but never any tears. I will post some cute pics of them all in a bit. We tried to let Addison and Ross have a sleep over...I thought it would make for fun memories but.....didn't go so well. We put Ross and Addison in separate beds on the floor in Addison's room (Addy still sleeps in her crib because she LOVES it). When Erin and I closed the door we watched them on the monitor and saw Addison jump up and tell Ross not to go to sleep b/c she wasn't tired. We heard Ross's sweet voice in the background ask Addy is he could to sleep in which Addison responded with a strong "NO!". Then Addison wanted back in her crib so we put her in there and her and Ross went back and forth of Ross saying he was sleepy and going to bed and Addison telling him no! Then you hear Ross grunt "Ugh" and Addison says "Don't UGH me Ross!" Really!? I just sit there watching the monitor and watching my daughter try to make her cousin break the rules. What a proud mommy moment. :) My monitor allows me to speak to the girls over them like an intercom so I tell Addison to stop bothering Ross and let him go to sleep and she says "Mom, we are just telling stories." WHAT!? All I can say is we will definitely have our hands full with her the older she gets if she is this crafty this young. :) After about 45 minutes of Ross ignoring Addy's pleas for staying up Addison fell asleep and Ross wanted to go back to his original room. Guess we need a few years until a successful sleepover.
Addison is going on week 9 of dance lessons and she LOVES it. She is quite the ballerina and tap dancer. We love it. She dances all over the house and looks forward to it every week.
Ansley was baptized this Sunday and the ceremony was beautiful and we enjoyed a great day full of family, friends and lots of food. Charlotte and Adam are her Godparents! Ansley has started waking up more throughout the night. I am not quite sure what it is all about but it is growing old very quickly. I am tired! Mommy needs a solid night of sleep...maybe once in 6 months...too much to ask??? Her sweetness during the day helps me get through the night. I think I will blame teeth even though I can't see any yet. She is sitting up like a champ and is getting more adventurous with her leaning to reach toys and getting in the crawling positions by herself. It is amazing how quickly they grow.
Happy 30th Birthday to Charles as well! His big 3-0 was Monday! As you can see Addison REALLY enjoyed Daddy's cake!