no more sickness here!

We are all finally healthy. Robert had a moment yesterday when he thought he might be coming down with something, but thankfully it was nothing serious. I spent the weekend enduring a raging sinus infection, but now feel 100% better. Addison is A-OK now, thank goodness!

Addison returned to school this morning with a cheerful grin and a bit of a skip in her step. She agreed to walk to class with Miss Stacey, which gave Robert & me great relief and comfort...oh how we dread the return to school after a break! She even turned and blew a quick kiss to us before disappearing into the classroom! Hallelujah for this morning's drop. We can only hope that the rest of the week goes as smoothly as today did!

We visited with baby Stokes again. Addison got to hold him this time, which tickled her to no end. She held him for about 2.5 seconds and then said, "Ok, Daddy. Now you take Stokes." She held him just long enough to snap a quick photo, which pleased me! She was very gentle and (mostly) calm while we were there. Her excess engery was diverted to Trevor & Jen's dog, Yoshi. Poor Yoshi. By the time we left, he was hiding under their coffee table...Addison can be a little too gregarious sometimes. But the way I see it is that Addison was just given Yoshi a taste of what life will be like as baby Stokes grows older!

We also went to the pumpkin patch, but I'll have to write about that another time....

meet Campbell Stokes Bryan!

We got to me baby Stokes today! He was less than 24 hours old, so we feel pretty privileged to be invited to see him!

Here's a pic of the happy little family!

Congrats to Trevor & Jen! SOOOOO excited for you both!

Welcome to baby Kaitlyn Noel!

This afternoon we got to meet Robert's cousin Alice's new baby girl - Kaitlyn Noel. When Addison saw her initially, she froze and didn't say anything. After being in the room for a minute, Addison said, "Can I touch it?". Hilarious. We practiced saying "baby Kaitlyn" all the way to the hospital. Guess that practice really payed off. :-)

Addison had a birthday party at school today. They had pizza for lunch and we took in cupcakes for snack. But for some reason they were going to do cupcakes at 4pm...so Addison missed them. I picked her up earlier than normal today so that we could go visit baby Kaitlyn. They're going to save them for tomorrow I think...I hope.

One day of school left. Addison will return to school in January as a big girl member of the 2 year old class. Exciting!

Potty training is NOT easy and is NOT fun. Good luck to any of you who have not yet experienced this joy. I'm off to the diaper station now.