Creative Imagination

Addison's imagination is evolving at rapid speed and it is extremely entertaining to watch. Some of my favorites include: her "ice skating" on the wood floors, her imaginary friend Casper, randomly screaming and running because a dragon is chasing her or that her closet is now the "dungeon". Oh yea and her waking up EVERYDAY telling me she does not want her human legs, she wants a beautiful pink mermaid tail...thanks Disney!

With this evolving imagination comes the pressure for Charles's and my imagination to grow as well because we are expected, multiple times a day, to think up new stories and songs. Every night when we put her to bed she wants a song about an item in her room. One night it is the fan song, next night the window song, door song, or the monitor song....uh really? They get pretty hard. One night she asked for a "mommy song". So this is what I came up with:

I am a mom, who is the bomb :)
and I have two daughters
Their names are Addison and Ansley
I love them more than candy
I am a mom....

I have two girls
Who love to twirl
and Addy has curls
Ansley loves to wiggle
They both make me giggle
I am a mom....

I love them so
Especially in bows
From their heads down to to their toes
They love to ask why
I kiss them when they cry
I am a mom!

Not horrible right? Anyways...if you have any creative ideas for songs, lay 'em on me! I need all the help I can get (as seen above)!

Addison had a CBC this week, numbers looking good. They recovered from their little January vacation. Platelets 107,000, WBC 8.08, ANC 4201, HGB11.5. Wohoo!!!!

Ansley's 9 month pictures

The last few times we have had pictures scheduled for Ansley the weather has not cooperated and it did not this day either. The sun was shining but the temperature was low and the wind was blowing. Poor Ansley was still getting over her ear infection and did not like cold...I will say she was still cute as pie!







Um...HOLY HAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Spring has Sprung

Spring has Sprung in the Bond house and so have Ansley's teeth! On Friday Ansley took her first two steps! She is not even 10 months old! She is developing quite a sassy attitude as well. She has this God awful screech she does when she wants something or if something does not go her way. It is so bad I stop and wonder if she is part pterodactyl. :) I am now working diligently on getting her to use her signs for "please", "more" and "all done" instead lieu of screaming. She is using the "more" sign but looks away sheepishly when I tell her to use the "please" one...little booger.



Besides Ansley taking her 1st steps we had another HUGE milestone in our house. Addison FINALLY pooped on the potty. Charles told her when her diapers ran out she was done. No more! Not for pooping or for sleeping in. We cute her off cold turkey...and let me tell you it worked! She has pooped on the potty and has slept in big girl panties ever since. She has only wet the bed once which was totally my fault because I let her have a sip of water before bed. Ding dong, I know! She is getting her big girl bed this week. I will post pics when have it all set up! We did do a tiny weeny bribe to go along with the no more buying diapers thing...we are taking her to Disney World! We have been telling her for months that the princesses don't let little girls in diapers visit the castle. Whatever...it worked! We have our trip planned for March!!! We cannot wait! Most expensive poo EVER but totally worth it!



Addison and I planted some seeds a few weeks ago and after about 4 days they sprouted! I think I was more excited then she was but she makes sure to tell everyone that comes over to check out her Zinnias that she is growing.

Girlie Girl Goes Camping!

Lucky for daddy as you can see from the pictures our Addison was born to camp...not so lucky for mommy! :) I do have to admit it was much more enjoyable than I expected.



Daddy had been promising Addison to take her camping for months. The first time Charles tried to take her it was horrible weather so they put the tent up in her bedroom. There is something magical about a tent to a child. Everytime we drove past trees that looked remotely like a forest she would beg to go camp there.



We finally nailed down a weekend that our friends could go with us and the 4 families set out into the woods for a fun wholesome family camping trip! It was great fun, the kids explored, searched for bugs and of course roasted marshmallows to make smores with! I think Addy ate at least 3 smores while mommy and daddy endulged in just as many if not more.




Addison kept her girlie-ness with her by the way she sat in her campin chair! Fancy Nancy would be so proud of her! Other than Addison waking up at 4:30 ready to play outside it was a very successful camping trip and I did enjoy snuggling in our bed with her! We cant wait till we can take both girls with us, mommy wasn't brave enough to take Ansley too so she had fun with Mimi & Grandaddy!