January's over?

Where did January go? Let's see.......

The girls were sick again. Olivia caught a terrible cold w/ fever, head congestion, and a terrible cough. Of course, Addison had it a few days later. It seemed to hit her harder becuase she's so little and can't have any cold medicine. There was one day that just looking at her pitiful, sick face made me cry. She struggled with a fever. Shhhh....don't tell....I gave her motrin 2 days before she turned 6 months. The Tylenol wasn't bringing the fever down so I broke the rule and gave it to her 2 days before she's allowed to have it. Thank God it helped! Both are better but Liv seems to be catching another cold. I think we'll be passing cold back and forth until Spring.

Olivia has been talking about what she wants to be when she grows up. We seem some tractors or other pieces of heavy equipment along the road going to or coming from school & work. Olivia gets excited to see tractors (all heavy equipment is a tractor to her). She said she wants to be a farmer when she grows up. She has a long list of animals she wants to have along with big and small tractors for all of us to ride. We had her to the doctor when she was sick because she complained of her ear hurting. While she was there, she told the med student she wants to be a doctor when she grows up. When the pediatrician came in, he had Daffy Duck on his stethescope. The med student told her to tell the doctor what she wanted to be when she grew up. She said she wants to be a duck. So much for being a doctor!! She also wants to be a rock star.......

Addison is learning new things every day. She has perfected the art of grabbing my hair and pulling it. She can also manage to grab my glasses with ease. She loves to roll over and over and over and over..... You put her down at one end of the room and find her at the other end in just a few seconds. During the night, she moves all over her crib. You never know how you're going to find her in the moring.

Just yesterday, she started getting up on all fours and rocking a little. It's a little early to crawl but she's trying. She also can sit up without support. We stay near by because every so often she falls over and then can't get back to a sitting position.

Her hair is growing (Yea!!!) and is still red. We're hoping it stays that color. We've moved into the stage 2 baby foods and she loves them all. She's a very good eater. Let's hope she stays that way. We've been pulling out lots of Liv's old toys. She loves to reach for anything and everything. She's fun to watch as she realizes that some of the toys make sounds and light up.

Olivia had a lot of fun at her friend, Andrew's, birthday party last week. It was her first time at Chuck E. Cheese's and she had a blast. I wish I had the video camera with me because she was so much fun to watch. There was so much to see and do and she couldn't figure out what to do first. She was a little small for many of the games but she had fun. She also ate 2 pieces of pizza. It was amazing! She's doing better with her eating. Some days are a challenge but she has more days where she eats more and different foods. There's hope yet! Every day we get in the car she tells me she wants to go to Andrew's party. I think she just wants to go back to Chuck E. Cheese's.

We bought a new car last week. At the end of the week of sickness, Bill and I took a day off to go to a new car show and hopefully buy a car. We had been test driving some cars on weekends and had a good idea what we wanted to get. The Malibu had almost 110,000 miles on it and it was having problems so we decided to trade it in. We picked out a red Toyota RAV4. We didn't get it until this past Wednesday because the one we picked out was still on a truck being shipped to the dealership. Olivia loves that it is red. I'm sure Addie loves it too but she doesn't say much about it. Ha Ha. I loved driving off in a car that only had 5 miles on it.

We're hoping for a boring February!