Well, Well, Well...what a weekend:-) This is how our week ended, I took off on Thursday versus Wednesday in order to head out Thursday, for the what always seem like a 24 hour trip, but only in reality takes about 8-9 hours. It ended up that Jeremy had to work a half day so by the time he got home we were not able to head out till 1:30PM. On our way we went, I tried my best to keep Miss Addison awake until we were on the road so that we were able to get a good two hours of driving in before we'd need to make a "stretch the baby's legs stop". So when she didn't wake after three hours we were shocked, four hours "wow, she must be exhausted", five hours, "is she still alive?", then at 5.5-6 hours into our trip she woke briefly and we were able to get some food in her and allow her to stretch her legs. She felt warm to me at the rest stop but I chalked it up to her being cooped up in a car for 6 hours. So as we left Steak -n- Shake(yummy chocolate banana milkshakes!) we were look at another 2 hours of driving...Boo!. But Miss Addison fell right back to sleep.....ummmmm that's odd? But we thought for sure this was doom for us later. We were 100% sure this kid just did her night time sleeping at 1:30PM and was without a doubt going to be up...all. night. long! When in fact we got there(10:30PM), she was still feeling warm to me, so I asked Sara if she thought so as well. She concurred and we took her temp...103.1!!! WTH? So I gave her some Tylenol and sent her on her merry way, since she was not acting like herself but still had some pep from the 8 hours of sleep she just got...We were finally able to get her down at 12:30AM! She slept ackwardly between us, because I win the bad mom award this week(forgot the pack n play for her sleeping arrangements but keeping in mind that Sara and Matt have a 7 month old that so she could have slept in his crib but she refused)She slept till 5:30AM and woke cranky, crabby, fussy, warm and just over all....a hot mess! Over the weekend she was hot off and on and just in the worst mood I have ever witnessed my child in. She had a stomach virus and threw up for 9 hours straight and wasnt this crabby. I noticed she was loosing her balance and stumbling so I assumed it was an ear infection.
Well, to keep a long story...less long lets get to the good parts of the weekend. As said before, Matt is leaving at the end of April 2009 to go to Afganistan...please pray for him...this will be his third tour, first two were to Iraq, we wanted to make sure that we visited and saw him before he left. We had a fantastic weekend aside from a crab butt baby...we got to see Matt and Sara, Travis, Bryen(whos b-day was on April 8th just days before) and little...ok well big Dominic. Dominic is such a cutie and really is starting already to take after his Daddy. I know where my husbands genes can from...the not so tall Freeman men and most physical traits are from the Hemphill side...but Matt's genes??? No freakin clue! He is a big man! He is (my guess) 6'4" and approx 250? Jeremy is 5'10" & 200! How does that happen? But at any rate...Dominic is already taking after his Dad, he is 29 in and 20 lbs at 7 months. Addison is currently 17 months and 30-31 in 21-22lbs! Dominic has a long torso so when they sit on the floor together, he is taller...when standing she only has him by approx 1-2 inches!
Since we don't get to see the "carriers of the Freeman name" (Matt's boys: Jeremy is convinced we are going to have all girls, Matt stole all the male sperm)very often we were excited to find out that Travis & Bryen play on the same soccer team this year and they had two games while we were there. Which we were able to attend & I was able to get some kick butt photos of.
This weekend was filled with Family, Fun, Love & lots n lots of laughter. We played Wii with the boys & DDR Dance Dance Mario & Addison was able to be "with the big kids" since she seemed to not have too much interest in Dominic (he doesnt do anything that is deemed cool to her yet)...
The trip back home went much better, Addison was still "off her game" and only slept about 1/2 way but she is used to driving two hours a day with me to work so she is great in the car.
Which brings me to Easter, every year since I can remember(prolly before I was born) my grandparents host all the holidays and every Easter we have an easter egg hunt in their yard...well three rounds usually. This involves plastic easter eggs(Come on people you know what I'm talking about??) and they are filled with money!!!!!! Yes, Money! We save our change alllll year for this! It is usually $.50 or $1.00 per egg. So my brother (yes 17 and still doing it...but ahhhh hell who am I kidding I would if I could) made $80.00! That is some serious mojo for an Easter Egg hunt! Addison pulled out with about $30.00! Not too bad for a 17 MONTH old! She really caught on much quicker than I expected her too. I think she was mostly just wondering around the yard and when she stumbled upon a brightly colored egg...she grabbed it. What we found hilarious is that she didn't want to give them to Daddy and was perfectly happy just having her hands full...two eggs that is it...we had to force a release of one to grab another. Which finally she was ok with.
Easter dinner was great and who didn't know that Grammie & GIGI were going to spoil their little bean. Addison walked away from Easter 4 baskets full, lots of new clothes, summer beach toys, money from Grandma Freeman and Money that she worked darn hard for.
We had a wonderful "spring break" with 4 days off(Jer 3.5) and spending it with family was the greatest gift of all!
Here are some photos from our adventures!
