Halloween and 2 months old!!

Here is Addison's Halloween Outfit that her Aunt Mary got her. Isn't she cute!!

Her actual costume was a lady bug. It was too hot to wear it for very long so she put it on for a few pictures. This is her friend Mallory, she was a bee so I thought it would be good to get the bugs together!

This is how car rides usually start out when she has a bow in.
This is how they end up! In the middle of car rides she likes to go ghetto!

Here are the dads with their babies at Trunk or Treat at church! Christopher and Addison, Kory and Kanyon, Mark and Blake

Now that Addison is 2 months old... She does some new things...

She likes to wear her daddy's hat.

She learns accounting from her dad. Doesn't she look so interested!!
She holds her own bottle. (okay, it only lasts for a few seconds but I feel like she's really old for those seconds)


She does sit ups. She does sit ups everynight with her dad. We attribute her incredable neck strength and the fact that she rolled over to these.

This isn't really anything to do with her 2 months old things, I just thought that it was funny. I was getting her foot prints in her book and she stamped me instead of the paper.

I have not been able to get a good picture of her smiling yet. She smiles a lot, but in every picture she just looks crazy... We'll try again later

Well, tomorrow is the day that I have to go back to work... YUCKY! I'm not too excited about it. Here are some things from this past week.

Addison is watching the Red Sox game. She doesn't remember that she's been to a game, but I think that we got her to be a fan early!

Doesn't she look like she's sitting in a little pink recliner?

This was an attempt last Wednesday at breast milk, obviously it's still not going just wonderful but I think that we are getting better! Notice how her and Chris's shirts are both super dark! YUMMY! Got to love that baby barf!

I enjoyed playing with Jill and Amy (Grayson, Mallory and Blake) these last few weeks. I'm going to miss that! Judging from this picture I think that Jill will be able to handle Grayson and the twins all at the same time!

I put Addison down for her to sleep the other day,

this was where I put her down...

This was where she was when she woke up..
And lastly, today was the first day that we went out in the 50 degree weather... so she needed her little grey hoody!

Lots of Firsts!

This past week has been full of firsts for Addison!

She tried to imitate a turtle (or having tummy time, which ever)

She peed on her daddy

She met her Uncle Kallen and Aunt Kelsey!

We took her "1 month and big blue" picture (yes, I guess this means that we have to keep Big Blue for at least another year!)

Captured the extra long hair on her forehead

(I know the picture isn't that great, but I had a hard time getting it to show up in pictures, so look closely on the right side of her forehead you can see it. I've thought about plucking it, but part of me wants to see how long it can get!)

She met her Uncle Mark

She took her first "sink" bath

Most Impressive... she met her 102 year old Great-Great Granddad

Here is a 5 generation picture Addison with her dad, Granddad, Mimi (Great grandmother) and Great-Great Granddad.

And she saw her first horse!

A few more that I didn't have pictures of...

She made it the 3 hours and 15 minute car ride to Bryan without needing to eat! (both ways!!)

And one night (only 1 so far) she slept for 6 hours!! I was amazed, too bad our luck didn't last other nights!

1 month old already???

Well, Addison had a good 1 month birthday, that was until about noon... that's when I decided to see if all the milk protein was out of my system. I let Addison nurse for about 2 minutes then gave her a bottle, thought that everything was good, then she started getting fussy... REAL fussy. She finally calmed down and we made our first trip to the grocery store. She did great, until we got in line. I was putting my stuff on the thing at the checkout line, I looked over at her and she looked like she was choking. As her face was turning red I quickly unbuckled her and pulled her out of her carrier, she coughed a few times and I thought that everything was okay... then she threw up! Yeah for throw up while in line at Wal-Mart!! We got home and were fine, until throw-up #'s 2-6 came. Don't get me wrong, they were spread out from about 4:30 - 9:00, but still I just makes you so sad.

So I'll have to post her 1 month picture later... It's been a long day and a long Cowboy game and it's time for bed!

Growing Baby!!

Well, the trip to the doctor this week as a good one... for Addison anyway! She's already gained 1.5 lbs! Dr. Neff said that most babies gain about 20 grams/day, and at the rate that she is going she's gaining 50 grams/day! We also learned that she is allergic to a protein in cows milk, which would make sense as to why she only cried when we fed her. The Dr said that she would more than likely grow out of it and it in no way means that she is lactose intolerant. Like I said it was a good appointment for Addison because we figured that out; however, not so fun for mom! Why you ask, well as long as I am going to be feeding her I cannot have any milk products. Those of you that know me know that I LOVE milk... and cheese... and ice cream... and yogurt! So this sort of sucks but I'll just have to get over it and really watch what I eat more than ever; it's just not fun trying to feed a screaming baby.

Addison loves to take a bath, she has never cried... yet! I think that she just like to hang out in her mini hammock!

You be the judge, how much does Addison look like her dad's baby pictures! (We tried to get her in as close to the same pose as possible)

Christopher

Addison

One 4 generation picture. Soon we'll have to drive to Austin to get the 5 generation picture. I'm not sure why I didn't think about taking one of these while my mom and her parents were here...

Friends

So here are a few of Addisons friends...

Kanyon finally got to come over and play!

Right before I snapped this picture I promise they were holding hands!

Here Kanyon is trying to show off his guns for Addison by asking where the weight room is...
She started to cry and he was comforting her!
I just thought that this was cute... I think that he's already trying to put the moves by touching her waist...
This is Blake, he's a little younger than Kanyon. He seemed pretty excited about coming to see Addison in the hospital, although all she she could do was a squirrel imitation

(she's already practicing for Kojie bid night!!)

This picture also shows her sporting the mohawk that her nurse Katie Jo would give her in the hospital. It was so cute, I think that we need to find a way to bring it back!Here is her friend Mallory! This picture is funny because of what Mal Mal is actually doing to Addison. Mallory noticed a scratch on Addison's hand and was concerned about it. As she was telling Amy that Addison had a Boo-Boo she noticed that Addison's hands were very dry. Amy and I noticed that she was picking very carefully at her hands then would say "EEWWH!" and then flick something on the floor. It took us a few seconds, but then we realized that Mallory was picking off Addison's dead skin! We had a good laugh, and here is the picture about it!

Pictures of Addison

Here are some pictures of the last few days.

These are the faces that I get randomly throughout the day!!

Family Pictures

Here are a few family pictures

Chrsitopher's parents, word is still out on what they want to be called.

My parents, Honey and GrandpaAunt Melissa and Aunt Mary
Christopher's Papa with his first great grandchild!
My Nana and Papa with their first Great Granddaughter!

She's HERE!!

Well, we didn't have to wait until Monday to have her! I started having contractions Friday morning and they lasted all day, then Saturday morning around 3:30 am I woke up Christopher and said that it was time to go. We got to the hopsital around 4:15 and she arrived at 10:38 am! Sounds like it was easy right... well, I had to have a c-section. They couldn't figure out why I wasn't progressing, I only got to a 3 or 4. Her heart rate would drop everytime I had a contraction. So they decided to go ahead and do a c-section, it's great to have an overly cautious nurse and overly cautious doctor. Once they got in there to pull her out, they realized why I wasn't progressing, the cord was wrapped around her neck, twice. They both said that if they had waited any longer it would have been an emergency, like I said it's great to have two overly cautious people working on you!

Addison Beth Collier

September 8, 2007

6 lbs. 15.4 oz.

18 1/2 inches long

Here are just a few pictures. I'll put more on over the next few days.

First time that I got to see her

Cute picture of Addison and her Daddy

We all thought that this was funny, it's like she's trying to crawl out of the scale

Posing for the camera

Her curled up, I wonder how many times she looked like that in my belly...

Finally, the hair cut! Christopher finally got to cut his hair, here's the before, growing it out for 9 months!!

And the after, Addison likes his new hair so much better than his old hair!

No news is not always good news

Well, maybe it is, just not the news you want to hear. So Dr today was not so much fun. I was actually a 1, so that's progress right?? He did "scrape" somethings, which hurt like crap, but he thinks that will help spur on labor.

So needless to say we are not going into the hospital tonight, or going to be induced tomorrow. He gave us an option of going in tonight, or waiting until Monday to see what happens over the weekend. After much consideration, frustration and tears (by me not Christopher) we decided to wait it out. He said that if we started the stuff tonight, there's a 50/50 chance (studies show) that I would have to have a c-section. He said that those few more days of contractions and thinning would make for an easier induction on Monday, not to mention that I could go into labor on my own between now and then.

So that's where we are. Christopher and I are both a little disappointed, we were expecting to have a baby this week. But if it's better to wait, then we'll wait. I've always said, as long as I feel good and the baby is okay, I'll go as long as the Dr. will allow... Wish I never said that since it's coming true now. Christopher said today that we can have another "last dinner" as we have been calling our last meal without being parents, we've had several of those by now!

I took a picture of me this morning, my brother has been wanting to see me "big and pregnant." So I'll post it soon.

Pictures!

No not of Addison, she has yet to make her appearance! But of the bedding and her room. It's pretty much complete, just waiting on that changing table!!

I finally met Mary and got my bumper a few weeks ago. I think that it's cute!

Here is the inside. I like that it's so spotted!!

Here is the valance that I just finished today! I like it better than the plain pink one from before!

Friday Dr. Paul called my office again and wanted me to come up for another stress test. It made me a little nervous but he said that he just wanted to make sure that everything was okay before the long weekend. He said that once he gets something like that in his head he can't get it out until he double checks. That made me feel better that he is so cautious! I knew that if he saw or heard anything that concerned him he would have gone ahead and induced Friday. Instead, it will be Wednesday night if she does not decide to come before then. He said that he would start one thing on Wednesday night, if I haven't changed at my appointment on Wed., then he'll do the other part Thursday morning. So she should be here sometime Thursday night! (I wish it was more afternoon) Christopher asked him how long we are looking at once they start to induce Thursday morning and he said it maybe later Thursday night, but "you never know, some people just get in there and pop them right out!" It made me laugh that he used those words.

I would also like to make a disclaimer now. Christopher has decided that once Addison arrives he will be in charge of updating the blog. I'm not sure how that is going to go, I told him that I would like to have final edit approval but I'm not too sure that he'll let me have that! So just remember that if you read random things on this blog in the next few days. I do hope to update it Wednesday after my appointment and before I have to go in to start the inducing Wed. night, so we'll see!