Addy's First Visit to the Dentist.
We wanted the first visit to be a good experience so we took Addy to a pediatric dentist in St. George. They have movies playing on the ceiling with headphones for the kids. Addy and Daddy entertained themselves on the movable chair while waiting for the dentist. Then they practiced opening their mouth for a good teeth cleaning. Needless to say we had to pin her down on our laps so the dentist could actually brush her teeth and put fluoride on them but she didn't cry!

Here's my new blog "Sage what?" about a mom and her attempt to go green!

Should have posted this over a month ago! I left it as a draft. Oops

Today I officially started going to the office for two hours and forty five minutes on Monday and Wednesday morning. I could not sleep at all last night and Addy and I were both awake at 4 a.m. and never went back to sleep. I think we were both a little anxious. I was hoping Addy would be ok and adjust and that I was going to be ok and adjust! I am such a wimp. I tried to prep her for her "play date" at Lisha's. She told me she was going to cry if I left her. She knows Lisha and her 5 kids well and Lisha is an amazing mom so I knew she was in good hands. I went in and hung out for a minute. Then I left and she cried. Amazingly I didn't cry but my stomach was in knots and when I drove back to town to pick her up I had to keep myself from speeding.

Lisha told me Addy cried for about 10 - 15 minutes and the last few minutes were the "wa wa glance over her shoulder" type. Lisha told me that Addy had great reasoning skills. There was another little boy there and they were trying to get all the plastic animals in a bucket. Addy said "I think we should carry some of them" then went on to say they should put the little ones in the bucket and carry the big ones. That's my girl. So smart. It is obvious that her parents work at an animal sanctuary because she had to make sure all of the plastic animals had a house and that they had a mommy and daddy or at least a friend.

It is funny how things change after a few years. When Addy was first born Daron and I would wrap her used diapers really tight and put them in a special trash can called a diaper genie. Less than a year later we got rid of the diaper genie and started throwing her diapers in the regular trash can. Poopie diapers would get taken to the trash can outside immediately. This morning as I was picking up the dirty clothes I noticed a dirty diaper on Addy's wooden floor by her bed and one tossed over the carpet onto the hall wood floor. The poopie diapers now make it into the regular trash can (never the floor - at least not yet) and when someone opens it one of us will yell from the couch "Sorry, the trash stinks." Hopefully she will be interested in potty training soon.

This was Daron's chest of drawers when he was a kid. Over the years we have used it as a buffet table, tv stand, toy chest, and changing table and it has lived in the bedroom, hallway, living room and dining room. Today it lives in the middle of the kitchen. We use the drawers for food items like pasta, chips, and granola bars. The back was painted with chalk board paint and framed out by Daron. Now Addy can use her chalk board while I am cleaning dishes and making meals. She loves to help in the kitchen so with a step stool she is able to help mix, stir, clean and pour at our "new" and improved kitchen island.


Although the photo quality sucks this shows how Addy is growing and her little face is leaning out. She is growing up so fast!
New Year, New Cooking. Since I started reading a book called Eating Animals I have increased my workload substantially. I now have to cook a meat meal for Daron and a vegetarian meal for me and noodles for Addy. Addy does eat a little of what we eat but not much. Unfortunately, she takes her food ques from Daron. So if he is not thinking he might turn up his nose at say red chard and carrots (see above). Luckily, Addy's friend Braxton loves vegetables and they ate a plate of sugar snap peas yesterday, apples and oranges and carrots! Yippee. Daron did eat vegetable and meat of wheat stir fry the other day. Granted he wasn't as excited as he is when I serve roast or King Ranch Chicken but hey he smiled and chewed and asked for more meat of wheat. Addy ate some rice and vegetables but she was not even gonna try the meat of wheat. I didn't take it personally right now she eats no meat - fake or real!

I got goodies too! Since my previous posts concentrated on Daron and Addy's toys I wanted to make sure to thank EVERYONE for the great gifts. From Snowshoes, a fancy Cuisinart (I should be on the food network soon), Pandora jewelry and of course a favorite -MONEY. Ironically, the money will be paying for Addy and I's trip to Fort Myers which is half work and half fun to see family. However, I don't think work will be kicking in any travel cost! Hey, It could be worse!

Happy New Year! It would be really cool if the blog site would do a "Year in Review" and highlight all the cool things! Unfortunately they don't but luckily you can order a book so Addy will have an ongoing journal of her life.

Speaking of Addy this morning she was playing with her stuffed animals and her stuffed penguin (who was the Mommy) told her stuffed dog (who was the baby) to "You stay here with your friends Mommy is going to the gym." Daron was laughing out loud it was so funny. She also asked for me to tell her a story one night. Daron and I were really happy when we were able to tell her stories instead of read them all the time - the main reason being we could TELL her a story in the DARK this hopefully leads to sleep :) While I was telling her a story I said that her Zebra ( a plastic toy) carried her across the river that was full of crabs (the crabs were her idea). She said "Mommy he can't do that because the zebra is a toy." Stupid Mommy. Needless to say I soon gave up on the story and Daddy took over. He apparently is a WAY better story teller and it allowed me to go to bed and read my Kindle book. Hmmm I am thinking every story I tell should have a Zebra doing non-toy things....