Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Here's a picture of our sweet Clover in her clover shirt!


For anyone who may not remember why our blog is titled "Our Sweet Clover", here's the story...When I was pregnant with Addy and didn't know if she was a boy or girl, we came up with a nickname to call "it". We also didn't want to reveal the baby's real name until she was born. Since my due date was close to St. Patrick's Day, March 19, we decided on Clover. So, for the duration of my pregnancy we referred to her as Clover.

It's been a busy week so far, but super fun, too. Grandma E. is here! She came into town yesterday and Grandpa E. is coming on Friday. Grandma and Grandpa L. will be coming for the weekend, too, to celebrate Addy's 1st birthday. Our sweet girl is so blessed to have so many people that love her so well!

Unfortunately, Addy has an ear infection again. Her nose started running pretty good yesterday and today it was noticeable to Grandma E. that her hearing wasn't very good in her right ear. So we took her in this afternoon to see the doctor and she has an infection in the right ear and signs of one starting in the left ear. Poor girl. We're hoping the antibiotic will help her feel better quickly.

1 Year Pictures!

Oh, we had so much fun getting Addy's 1 year pictures taken yesterday! We had some taken in her Easter dress and some taken in her little birthday tutu! SO FUN!








She was on a bit of a sugar high after this! She did really good digging into the cake, though she never smiled while eating it! I was thankful they let me use their big sink in their printing room to clean her up! Poor thing, I didn't think to bring a towel to dry her, all we had was paper towels! She was great.

Can't believe it's almost been a year already. Time is flying!!!

Back From Vacation

We just got back from taking our first vacation alone as a family of 3! We used our timeshare in Donalsonville, GA. It's basically in the middle of nowhere! When we planned this vacation a while back, we intended to meet my cousin and her family from Ft. Myers there and this was a location equal driving distance for us. Unfortunately, they weren't able to join us.

We had a really nice time, it was very relaxing. We drove there last Friday and got home late on Tue. night. Even though there really wasn't anything to do, Steven and I both agreed we could've used 2 more days there! We were on a house boat, a first for us, and we really did enjoy it. This place is perfect for anyone who likes to fish. Apparently they have lots of tournaments there, too.

This was our first car trip with Addy. We weren't sure what to expect. We borrowed a DVD player from some friends hoping that Addy would like to watch movies. She'd never watched a movie before. She has a talking Elmo that she likes to play with at Wendy's house, so we also got some Elmo movies from some friends of our's. Worked like a charm! She loved watching Elmo! One of the Elmo movies was about favorite kid songs and there was a barbershop quartet that sings the song "Sweet Adeline"! We thought that was so cool! What wasn't so cool is that we had the Elmo song in our heads constantly. :) We also brought some Boz movies and she loved those, too! She really did great in the car.



This is some of the houseboats lined up. If you look closely, Steven is in the picture standing outside the one we stayed in.


One thing we did a lot was take walks around the resort. It was great. Addy really enjoyed them as well, and she would often put her arms up like she was on a roller coaster!


We learned that there were alligators in the water and often seen by people at the resort. We even saw pictures of alligators that had been caught in the area of the resort. They were HUGE! The two biggest gators they had pictured were 15 ft. and 13 ft. long. We saw 2 gators while we were there, one real one and a statue of one! It was pretty cool to see the real one, especially since it was just a baby and only about 3 ft. long!




We went to Seminole State Park and played on a playground there. Addy loved the bridge the best!



The houseboat had a really nice porch and deck off the back. We enjoyed looking at the water and watching the sun set out there. It was just so peaceful!




On Monday we drove to Tallahassee to visit my mom's brother and sister that live there. We had a great time! It was a beautiful day and we really enjoyed visiting them and seeing the city.



Notice a trend here? Getting Addy to actually look at the camera and smile at the same time is NOT easy these days!!! She always seems to be one step ahead of the camera! Or maybe it's that we're always one step behind her?

Anyway, that was our vacation and we had a wonderful time. Being in the middle of nowhere with the ones you love is a great place to be!

Restricted

Since the stairs at our house are constantly calling Addy's name and she doesn't seem to hear our warnings to not climb them by herself, we've had to put a gate up to keep her away. She is not happy about this.



Now, every time the gate is open she rushes over to get through it before we can close it again! Funny girl.

We let her climb the steps when we're right there with her, and when we weren't right there, we tried to instruct her to wait for us. She just thought it was a game and giggled as she completely ignored our instructions, thus the gate!

Addy Goes Bowling

We met some friends for some bowling yesterday, and we had a lot of fun! Addy did really well and kept herself busy watching everyone around her and especially checking out all the bowling balls. Here's some pictures of our fun:




Rex needed a break, so he let Addy take her own turn at bowling!



Rex was very sweet and gave "baby" Addy some love :) She's not too much smaller than him!



So the bowling was fun and all, but we also had another first...a not so fun one...Addy threw up all over herself while we were bowling. She was eating Goldfish crackers and had too many in her mouth and started to choke. I cupped my hand under her mouth and told her to spit it out. And she did. Along with the entire contents of her stomach! YUCK. This was the first time I've had to deal with real vomit from her. Thank goodness I had an experienced mom there to help! I was sort of frozen in not knowing what to do first because there was just so much of it. And, Addy was trying to eat the Goldfish that she had just choked on. GROSS. So gross. Lots of napkins and wet wipes and a new outfit later, we were good to go again.