3rd Day of Black Eye

The eye looks even worse than before. It is starting to go down into her face. Poor girl, she is being so good about it though.

It is spreading to her left eye as well.

Brady was just being so cute I couldn't resist!

I ended up taking Andie to the Dr. on Friday cause she was looking really swollen and I wanted to make sure her eye was not damaged. The Dr. said her whole right side of her face looked very swollen, more than it should, and he was worried that she may have hurt the back of her head as well since that is the only thing she complains hurts. So he sent us to get some x-rays done and we have to have a follow up with an eye specialist. Go figure. This is her second major injury where we have had several Dr. appointments and x-rays. The first was when she was 15 months, she fell off the piano bench while sitting with my dad. She cried and cried and was very cautious with her arm, the next morning I knew something must be wrong cause she wouldn't move it. Turns out she broke both bones in her arm and was in a cast for 4 weeks. I am glad she is ok but when the bills start coming...oh boy, what an expensive child she has been!

Black Eye!

This morning.

This is this morning.

This is from last night.

My poor baby has a terrible black eye. Last night we ran to Wal-Mart to get a few items and Andie saw some wrapping paper that was of interest. I told her to leave it alone and sit down, well she put it back and as she was sitting down she lost her footing and fell out of the cart straight on her head! I picked her up to see that she just got a bump on her forehead and was so relieved that she didn't break her neck. She cried and cried, which who could blame her, and as we were walking out of the store I noticed that her right eye was a little swollen, she must have hit that too. We got home within 5 minutes and she could no longer open her eye. I tried to put some ice on it to keep it from swelling shut but that was not going to happen. We also tried just a cold rag, no way! She settled for Motrin and went to bed once we determined she didn't have a concussion. Now this morning her eye is the color of red wine. Poor thing. She is being so good and is acting like her normal self. She likes to look at herself in the mirror and try to force her eye open. So here are some pics of the damage:

MMM Yummy!

I have this new recipe for Pumpkin Pecan Pancakes that are so yummy and would make a great Thanksgiving breakfast. I made them last night to see if I could master it, and I did!

Pumpkin Pecan Pancakes
1 C flour
1 t baking powder
1/4 t salt
2 T sugar
**Mix together in a bowl

1 egg
1 C milk
1/4 C sour cream
1/4 C pureed pumpkin (fresh or canned)
1 T melted butter
1 T vanilla
1/2 -3/4 C chopped pecans
**Mix together and slowly whisk in the dry ingredients

Spray pan, heat until water drops sizzle. You can either place 1 t of nuts on grill and spoon 1/4 C of batter over them, mix the nuts in the batter (but they sink to the bottom), or just put the chopped nuts over top of the finished pancake.

Vanilla Sauce:
1/2 C sugar
1 T corn starch
1 C water
1 t pumpkin pie spice
**Mix in a saucepan. Cook, stirring often, over medium heat until thick and bubbling. Remove from heat
2 T butter
1 T vanilla
**Stir in butter and vanilla until butter melts.

I think these would be so yummy as dessert, maybe even with ice cream on top!

Girls Day Out!

My sweet little Andie has been trying to talk me into getting rid of Brady for the past week and half and when she was gung ho on going to see Madagascar 2 I sent him to the babysitters. I was so excited to have a girls day with her and have some one on one time. We got to the theatre and Andie was so excited she could hardly stand it! We got our tickets and then she saw the popcorn, so I spoiled her with a $5.25 tub of popcorn and we were on our way. We were walking down the hall and before we could get to the theatre our movie was playing in, tears welled up in her eyes and she said, "no ma-agascar, no ma-agascar!" and when I asked her what was wrong she said, "Andie soooo scared!" I tried to tell her that it would be fun once we got in there and she would like the movie and could eat all the popcorn she wanted but she didn't budge. Eventually we went back to the ticket counter and got a refund, yes they really do do it! So naturally, we spent the day shopping! Mostly putting together an "Andie's craft box" for snowy days. She is so excited to use the construction paper especially the red one!

Dr. Appointments

Today was Andie's 2 year check up and Brady's 4 month. The kids were good for the most part. Andie didn't want to do anything until after Brady had done it, funny I thought. The kids are all around very healthy. Brady has some eczema but the Dr. said that we were doing the perfect thing with rubbing him down with petroleum jelly after his baths. He said Brady is long and skinny (woohoo, lucky him) and Andie is all around a big girl (not fat, she is very proportionate), she looks more like a 3 year old than a 2 year old (sorry sweetie). Andie speaks better than she should and has nice teeth. The tantrums (which have started up again) are going to come and go so we need to continue to ignore them and discipline when they occur. Brady has started to wake up in the middle of the night because he is growing so fast that just milk isn't keeping him full anymore, so I can start giving him baby food. They both got shots, Andie is a little behind on hers so she still gets them, poor baby. I have decided that they are worse when they can talk. I had to help hold her down and she said, "mommy hurt Andie!" She cried for a second but has complained a few times that her leggies hurts. Sorry Andie! Brady takes the shots like a champ, he cried when they were going in but stops the second they are done, what a man!

Andie's 2 year stats:
Length: 37 in. (off the charts, or well above the 97th percentile)
Weight: 31.6 lbs (90th percentile)
Head: 50 cm (just plain BIG)

Brady's 4 month stats:
Lenght: 27 in. (95th percentile)
Weight: 15 lbs (60th percentile)
Head: 42.5 cm (pretty big)

Andie's potty update:
Andie no longer is a fan of wearing clothes period! She has informed me that she doesn't like to wear a diaper and wants panties. In order to prepare for her panties, she has been running around naked for a few hours every day with the promise to sit on the potty every 20 mins and try to go. We have had great success over the last 3 days with a few peed diapers and NO POOPS in the diaper! I can't tell you how wonderful this has all been for me. I hate changing her dirty diapers. Yesterday while running naked, Andie wore just her snow boots, hilarious! Of course I took pictures but opted to not post them on my blog since it is public.

First Snow!

Well we have had our first real snow! We had a little about a month ago, but nothing the stuck. Here is a picture of our backyard. I took these early in the morning so there was actually a lot more that came. I also got to drive in the snow for the first time, how exciting, not! I have been absolutly freezing and have come to the conclusion that I can't live here in Utah and not own a really warm jacket, I will be purchasing that next week.

This is across the street from us. You notice there is no snow on the streets, that didn't happen til later in the morning.

Off our front porch.

Cameron's sister Lindsay sent Andie some snow clothes that he girls had grown out of. When we got up this morning the snow was gone but Andie insisted on wearing this outfit anyways. So we walked to the mailbox, which is down the street, and to the trash, and people were looking at Andie and then at me like I was a crazy person. One lady said, "Is she cold?" I answered with, "Oh her? well we're from California." and she actually said, "well that explains it!" haha. I didn't feel like telling her Andie hardly ever gets cold. The only reason she is wearing it is because it is new and Andie is obsessed with shoes and there was no way I could get her to wait for it to snow to wear it.

She fell asleep wearing the snowsuit but she did let me take off the boots. (by the way, does anyone know how to turn the picture the right way?)

Potty!

Hooray! Andie is showing some iterest in the potty once again. Before she could sit she had to grab her favorite reading material. Daddy, Grandpa, this one's for you!

I hope I don't grose anyone out. She sat, and sat, and sat and then finally...(see above pic).

Oops! Almost forgot the boy!

She thinks she is the Virgin Mary!

Sitting in Brady's seat, wearing Mommy's running shoes!

Brady's new favorite thing (mommy's too).

Brady's other new favorite thing!

Watching football in his Bumbo chair!

New pictures

Andie today. You can't really tell but she has really cute pigtails in her hair.

Better view of the hair.

She is so sweet!

Andie's Quote of the Day -11/03/2008

Since her cousins have been here Andie LOVES to watch Playhouse Disney in the mornings. She was watching the Little Einsteins while I was doing her hair and there were cows on the show.

Andie: "Let's count the cows. One...two...three...there's four!" (I think they had counted them earlier in the show and she was just repeating them.) "I like cows!"
Amber: "Why do you like the cows?"
Andie contemplates for a minute.
Andie: "The cow put milk in Andie's sippy cup!!!" she was so excited at the thought of this

So funny! I thought this was very advanced for her age. I don't know where she learned that but I thought it was very clever.

Andie's Quote of the Day -11/01/2008

Andie just says too many funny things to not share with everyone so I have decided to start Andie's Quote of the Day. I hope you laugh as hard as I do, just realize that some of this stuff is "you had to be there" for it to be funny.

Amber: "Andie get off that. No, don't do that!"
Andie: "Don't you tell me no!"