Wii Tournament Round 1

Our really good friends the Flournoy's met us at Moe's tonight for dinner and then back to our house for dessert and Wii fun! The gauntlet of video game war has been thrown down and here we go. To start off we were going to play our new Wii Resort game but I did not read the instructions correctly and see that you also needed to purchase these "motion" controller adapters and therefore the game was no good to us tonight, so we mini-golfed and played lawn darts. It was a lot of fun but a little un organized seeing as how we only had 2 controllers, one num-chuck and no motion adapter things we had to take turns and that was lame-o but the girls had fun running wild while we played on. Next time you see a post about a Wii tournament it will be sword fighting and boxing too cause we have all the needed supplies now and the gauntlet was thrown again :)

Freaky Friday

This morning started off instantly with my in a panic! I shall explain..... Lastnight Stephen, Addison and myself were going to have dinner at Slopes BBQ. While I was finishing my make-up Stephen and Addison shared a quick before dinner snack in the kitchen. Addison ran into the bathroom saying "I don't like it!" and trying to spit something out of her mouth, when I ask "what did you give her?" he replies "just a bite of candy" and I say "well she doesn't like it" and returns with "she's being silly, she's had chocolate before". So no biggy right? And we press on. In the car Addison starts coughing, sneezing, runny nose and watery eyes (almost instantly) she had had a cold a few days before but was well over the hump and I had already backed off the cough medicine dosage because it was nearly gone. Once we arrive at Slopes she is almost getting worse and worse by the second and we are both really confused. Stephen starts questioning why I backed off the meds if she is still obviously sick and apparently it's a little worse now. I quickly state (I am trying to keep this conversation nice for bloggers sake) that she had NOT coughed like this in over 5 days and the medicine was just being wasted, we both then decided to pack the food up and head home to give her some medicine. As soon as we arrive home I give her the dosage of "Red" Triaminic and almost instantly she is healed! WHAT?? OK! Triaminic is good but it certainly ain't no wonder drug. I mean the cough was gone, not one more sneeze, not watery eyes NOTHING!! I am still blown away! Well, the evening rocks on and everything else takes place as normal, we play dolls, color, she got a shower with me and then eventually ate the rest of her dinner! She was completely fine! We read bed time stories and went to bed like normal. Well......... about an hour after she is asleep we were watching TV and he looks at me and says "I hope it wasn't that Reese's I gave her that made her do that" WHAT????????????? I flip-out! I went running upstairs to check her breathing (of course she was fine) and then I return downstairs to question him more. How much did you give her? You knew she had never had peanut butter? What the world where you thinking? Now he is feeling like poop and for the rest of the night was take turns checking on her and we even decided to let her sleep with us just incase she started having difficulty breathing. Well, well, well the next morning when she "Pops" her little head out of bed her entire face, eyes, lips, everything was swollen and I mean big time swollen! Instantly I check to make sure she is breathing normally, rush to get the Benadryl and call the Doctor's office. Because she wasn't having any signs of respiratory problems he wanted me to bring her to the office instead of the whole ambulance and ER mayhem. By the time we go to the office I could tell the swelling was going down but he insisted on re-checking her in 3 hours and then wanted to give me an Epi-pen training course. Awesome! Well in 3 hours the swelling was nearly gone (and she never seemed to be affected by it at all) and I had been given 3 Epi-pens and we were to start double and triple checking all of her foods and snack foods for any peanut or processed on equipment that processes peanuts too labels. All is well, and she apparently is only allergic to the actual nut and not any of the relating things, but we are always on the watch now and I had rather her just do without a particular cookie than to ever have to use that Epi-pen on her little thigh! I snapped a few photos after the first Doctor visit but not before! I was a little pre-occupied :) We are all very thankful that the Lord was watching Addison and wether we were arguing about it or not, he got us home to give her the Triaminic (that contains an Antihistamine) that stopped it all! And now we all communicate a little better because of this one accident. The End

Sunday morning's ode to Super Why

Ode to Super Why? Oh Super Why how Addison has fallen deep into your academic trap. She can detect your theme song from at least 40+ yards away and tries to sing a long each time. You and your Super Readers have taught her numerous songs, the alphabet and of course your Rockin' cool opening dance number! We are forever in your debt and will always think of you fondly as she grows.....

Georgia Tech ~VS~ Wake Forest

GO JACKETS!!!
I have always been a big Georgia Tech fan and now that Paul Johnson is the Head Coach, Stephen has come over to greener pastures! A little history to explain ~ Stephen received a full athletic scholarship in 1987 to play football for Georgia Southern and his coach was Paul Johnson. He will always be an Eagle deep down but now that Coach Johnson has moved to a Division 1 school he was thrilled beyond belief, thus the transition to the Jackets over those Dawgs. Wise choice if you ask a Jacket! Anyway, we have wanted to go to a home game all season but couldn't find tickets for the right day and an early game too so we could take Addison with us. Finally we land some tickets and boy we hit the mother load! Our friends Karl and Dee gave us 2 tickets to a Saturday 3:30 game with a priority parking pass, box seats, free appetizers, drinks and did I mention the box? It was awesome! I had packed Addison's bag with all these "keep her busy toys" and brought snacks galore but really she needed none of it. We parked right beside the stadium, took the long 20 yard walk to the Luxury box entrance where we had a sit-down dinning room, private bathrooms, drinks and any pre-game appetizer you could imagine! SWEET!! We ate a few snacks watched a few minutes of the game on the Jumbo TV in the dining room, then walked out onto our "terrace level" padded seats. My tooshy never felt so comfy at a football game before and I must admit it was starting to like it new digs. During the 2nd quarter the appetizer were exchanged for a full buffet line! Dear Lord there was food everywhere, we had desserts that made us feel like we were in the Willy Wonka factory. YUM-O! Of course we ate again, then during half time (by the way it was also homecoming) a staff member brought Stephen a copy of the "half time stats" WHAT?? Addison loved the half time show, the bands and all the special homecoming festivities and the cheerleaders kept her eyes glued to the field the entire half hour. In the second half she even picked up on the "Go Jackets......Go Jackets......Go Jackets" and she would laugh every time someone near us would say it too. I guess she thought she started this trend. The game itself was a nail biter and ended up in over-time for the Jackets to win over the Deacons 30-27! Goooo Jackets! And by the way did I mention these were Mr. Jimmy Dellinger's tickets? Awesome! I told Stephen the only problem with taking Addison to her first college football game in style is that now she thinks all games come with close parking, clean private potty's, yummy free food and drinks, cushy seats and all the room to play with your Barbies and ponies that you could ever need! Poor girl she has a rough rode ahead :)

A Halloween do-over?

A few days before Halloween weekend my mom was diagnosed with the FLU so we didn't want to risk her passing it to any of us so quarentined she was. My parents live next door to my grandparents so that means if you skip one Trick or Treat stop you skip them both. After a several days I thought it should be safe enough for Addison to visit and them get to see her in her Princess Jasmine costume too! She was really excited tonight to get to play Jasmine again. She kept asking "chick a cheat again?" So we got all dressed up with our Elmo bucket in hand, walked onto the porch and knocked on the door and when they opened it we shouted "trick or treat"! She was so surprised to receive her special treats from each of them. Oh the things we do to please the grandparents~ (side note: Addison did not wear those hot pink shoes on Halloween, she had shimmery princess slippers )

Happy 40th Sesame Street

Super Addison

How many Super Hero's have you seen do this? Fight crime, save orphans, mend broken bridges just seconds before a School Bus goes over the cliff BUT..... Swiffer! I didn't think so!
This is Super Addison! Not to be confused with regular Addison (she will correct you when the cape is on). She has fallen head over heals for "Super Why?" and constantly plays this game with us and solves book problems and much much more. It is so awesome to watch her imagination grow everyday: she role plays, puts on little concerts, can turn anything into an instant tea party and invites Super Why almost ever time. She is Amazing and everyday I feel so fortunate to be her mom and a part of everything she does! She is "Super Addison"