Recall of Infants' and Children's Tylenol

I read this morning that there has been a voluntary recall of infant Tylenol!  I checked Addison's and sure enough hers was on the list!  Be sure you check out this website and make sure yours is safe!

http://www.mcneilproductrecall.com

Orange...

Orange.  This is now the color of Addison's nose!  I have had people tell me that babies will turn certain colors if they have a lot of a specific color in their diet...and it has happened to us!

A few days ago, my brother Michael asked me if Addison's nose was orange.  I thought it was just because she had just eaten and maybe we had missed some of the food on her nose.  It wasn't until I was taking her pictures that I noticed in each and every one of them that her little nose was ORANGE! 

So...here is our trouble.  This little stinker will NOT eat anything but her orange veggies.  When I try to feed her something else she takes one bite, makes a silly face, and then refuses to again open her mouth.  She is no dumb cookie!  I mix some green veggies with her orange and she will eat them, but when I try to mix any fruit with it she again turns her nose!  AHHHHH!!!!!  Always a battle!

So without further ado... I would like to introduce you to our orange-nosed little monster!

I had to put this picture on here too because she looks so silly...orange nose and all!  And look you can see her two top teeth!!

Do you see it??  Please tell me you do so I don't think I am going crazy!  Orange nose or not, she is still our beautiful Addison and we love her SO MUCH!!

Happy Seven Months!

Addison is seven months old today!  It is amazing how fast time flies!  Look how fast she has grown!!

3 days old.

1 month old. 

2 months old.

 3 months old.

4 months old.

 5 months old.

6 months old.

7 months old.

What a BIG girl!  She is making noises with her hand in this last picture.  

Happy seven months to our little Addie girl!  We love you!!

30 Weeks...

Our little Addie girl is 30 weeks old!

We now have FOUR teeth!  Her fourth tooth FINALLY came in on Monday.  It had been giving her a lot of trouble, because it would look like it was coming and then go back under.  She had one night where she woke up crying because she was in pain...a little Tylenol and all was good in Addison's world!

We have also made some milestones with eating this week! She has now started eating things off her tray. She has had cheerios and other cereals and bananas. Although she has a really hard time with her bananas because they are so sticky! She chews them with her four little front teeth! SO cute!

No, we have not made it to crawling yet...I am hoping soon.  I talked to another mom today who said that they do the rocking for quite a while before crawling and said that she felt like it took forever for her son too!  So I will continue to wait...patiently!!  She is getting so good with playing on the floor for longer periods of time on her own.  She will sit and pull things out of her basket, throw them and lean just about as far as she possibly can to get them (if they are not too far out of reach).  I have found it amazing watching her figure out how to move around.  She is getting pretty graceful when she goes from sitting to her tummy now as well! 

As most people know who have met Addie, she is a noise maker!  She loves to squeal and make silly noises with her mouth.  About a month ago she learned that if we tap our hand over her mouth, and she talks, it makes a funny noise and she loves doing it.  This last week she has learned to make the noise all on her own with anything she can find!  She does it with the back of her hand, her toys, your leg or shoulder, and sometimes the arm of the chair you are sitting in.  She taps her mouth and away she goes!  She has also learned how to click her tongue on the roof of her mouth.  She does it when you give her a kiss and I think that she associates that sound with kisses because they are similar.

I almost forgot to mention how she has learned to wave bye, bye.  She did it to her Grandma Jen and Uncle Max one night as we were leaving and she wasn't even encouraged to wave.  It was pretty exciting!  She is still pretty sporadic at waving bye, bye, but we will get there!!

This week Addison has also seemed more attached to her mommy.  She is always checking to see if I am in sight when I am with her and starts to cry when I leave.  Nothing breaks my heart more than to leave her, but I have to get used to it, because I don't leave her that often!  I am hoping this is just another one of those phases babies go through.

All in all it has been a great week.  I just keep thinking about how truly blessed we are to have such a happy and healthy baby girl.  She is the world to us and she is always putting a smile on faces!

We have just a few pictures to share from this week...lol!

You will notice in these next few that we spend a LOT of time outside!  If the weather is nice I take a blanket out and we sit outside and play instead of being stuck inside.  Addison also LOVES to take walks.  On a nice day we usually go out for 2-3 strolls!  I love being home with her, especially when the weather is nice!

Our first encounter with grass and she loved it.  She was pulling it out of the ground and kicking her feet in it.  She even had her first grass stains on her socks when she was all finished!

Sitting like a big girl on the bench...what a cutie!

Addison in her umbrella stroller, which is very handy by the way!

full of giggles...

Addison with her Grandpa Russ.

Addison seems to think that when we get ready for bed it is time to giggle and play.  I think that she just needs to let out the last of her energy before bed!

Addie and Mommy after church on Sunday!

The Garbes Dairy Update:

We now have twelve more cows...woohoo!  Dan had been milking at the farm and commuting from our house which is a bummer.  It will be nice when he can just walk outside and be to work!  Well, at least one of his jobs anyway!  We should have the rest of the herd in the next few weeks!

A New Chapter has Begun...

Just think...what if our lives could be turned into books.  Think of the number of chapters that would exist.  The number of pages written as you go about your day.  I would like to think that at the end of my existence here, I would have a book so filled with 'LIFE' that it would not shut.  Chapters filled with new beginnings and pages filled with love and happiness.  That is the kind of book I am choosing to have written.

Here I am in my life.  Half-way through my twenties, happily married, raising a beautiful daughter, and enjoying the 'LIFE' that fills my book.  I think back on past chapters with smiles, tears, and laughter.  Regretting no part of any of them.  And here we are today beginning a new chapter as our family ventures to the dairy farm!

This is going to be an exciting chapter. My husband Dan has always dreamed that one day his children would grow up on a farm and learn the life of a hard working farmer, just like he did. We are so thrilled to raise Addison and any of our future children on the dairy farm. And so...the chapter begins with five cows. Yes, you read that correctly, five cows. You have to start somewhere, right? Dan went to a sale and just bought five of his herd for now. There will be around 30 more within the next few weeks!  There are so many pages to be written in this chapter of life!

Meet the newest members of the Garbes clan...

Go out and live your chapters! Have a great night!