Once upon a time, there was a beautiful women who lived in Grand Island. She had 3 little miracles to call her own! Olivia, the middle child, also the ornery one and the one who will more than likely give this beautiful women many gray hairs thinks she should feed her babies the same way her mother does...check it out! (Although in this video she is not "feeding" the baby, rather, "getting milk")
Check back tomorrow or the day after for a picture review of the year 2008!
highlight for Addison. Olivia wasn't real sure of Santa and really didn't want to sit on his lap or even talk to him.
We started cereal with Ella in hopes that she woiuld start sleeping better. Hasn't worked, so we have stopped giving it to her. She doesn't seem to like it anyway. Usually just spits it out. More ends up on her bib or on me than in her mouth!
We tried this last year, but for some reason the link never worked. Tried it again this year, hope it works...
http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/Ixw86hFbPpES63W2dDnR
I wanted to post this on Thursday, but well, it was Thanksgiving, and lots of commotion and no time!
Happy Anniversary Tony! Can you believe 9 years ago we were getting married? Wow!! It seems like yesterday and other times, it seems like forever ago. One thing that doesn't change is how happy I am with you. I fall more in love with you everyday. You are an amazing husband, and have had to put up with a lot of the years. Thank you for you unending love, and undenible faith in me. We probably couldn't have accomplished as much as we have together without our faith in each other, and most importantly our faith in God. An amazing father you are to our 3 wonderful miracles. Who would have ever thought that in April 2001, we would have 3 miracles sitting before us? I know I did not think that possible, but someone else knew what was in store and has perfectly planned out our lives for us! I thank God everyday for the girls, for you and for our life together. I love watching you interact with the girls and read to them and wrestle with them!
Thank you Tony for 9 wonderful years! I am excited to see what the future holds for us and especially excited to see what you have planned for our 10 year anniversary!! Hope you are reading this and get the hint!! :)
We had a great Thanksgiving celebrating with the Chapman clan in York. Tony, the girls and I went to York on Wednesday to help Gail get ready for all the people in her house on Thursday. The girls had a great time seeing their Wichita cousins, Londyn and Sydney. Everyone, inlcuding Ella slept great. The Wichita Chapmans may disagree with me, I don't think Sydney slept very well. They were up late most evenings, and up early, but happy for the most part. Haven't had a chance to load the pictures onto a cd, will soon and then upload them!
We have started a fun tradition of painting pumpkins with the girls while daddy carves one and lets the girls help him take the guts out of it. Last year, I ended up with paint all over my face, this year much better; however, Liv decided to paint herself after she was done with her pumpkin! What a goofy kid. They really enjoyed it, then hoped in the bath so they could watch the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown before bedtime. It sure is fun to have little family traditions!
The girls have had a few chances already to wear their costumes. We had much debating about what to be this year. I had planned for Olivia to be a clown, and Addison to be Sharpay from High School Musical. We had the outfits, and I did not want to buy anything else. Pulled out the clown outfit, Addison wanted to try it on because I told her she had worn it one year for Halloween. It fit great and she decided that was what she wanted to be. It wasn't worth arguing about because Olivia didn't know the difference. So Liv gets to be a 
cheerleader. Of course Addison still tells me she wants to be Sharpay until I tell her that Liv then gets to wear the clown outfit. She doesn't like that idea and sticks with the clown!
I took the girls to Omaha this weekend for some Halloween festivities. After work I picked the girls up at daycare and headed out. I got the report from the sitter that Addison did not take a nap and Olivia had only slept for about 30 minutes on Friday. Oh good, I am thinking to myself. After they eat, both of them will fall asleep. Addison did, Olivia just wanted to talk to me until Ella started crying. (By the way, I was also expecting Ella to sleep the whole way - she didn't). Olivia didn't like Ella crying and started telling her to zip it. "Zip it Ella". Where in the world did she learn this I am thinking to myself. I kindly explain to her amongst Ella crying that we should not say that because it really isn't nice. The more I say it to her, the louder I get, "zip it momma, zip it". I am not having any of this. What is happening to the sweet innocence of my 2 year old? So now I am ignoring it. She is still saying it...but when she realizes I am not responding, she does stop. So to all of you out there...don't say "zip it"!!!
Daddy has been out of town for the last couple of days, and we miss him like crazy!
Olivia misses her daddy in the middle of the night when she likes to wake up for no apparent reason. Daddy walks her back to her room and she goes back to sleep, usually! Mommy isn't cuttin it tryingto be daddy and march her back to bed. She wants mommy to sleep with her. Mommy misses him more. Means she needs to get her butt out of bed instead of nudgin him to take care of Olivia in the middle of the night when she is standing beside you staring. (A nursing mom needs her sleep for good milk supply!!)
Mommy and Ella need daddy too. Ella needs her daddy for her nightime feeding and mommy needs to sleep some more. Come home fast daddy, we miss you!!! 
Addison had Grandparents Day at Preschool this weekend, and part of the festivities was taking the grandparents to the Pumpkin Patch. Depsite the incredibly dreary, wet and cold weather, we went anyway. We sure had a good time though and found our pumpkins. The girls did not want to leave, even when it was raining steadily on them. We took Grammy and headed out to have some fun and enjoy the company of one another. (We missed Mamo and Bampo though who were in Wichita celebrating Sydney's 1st Birthday! Sorry we missed out on that guys!) The girls were not overly cooperative with pictures, but who can blame them when they are 4 and 2. Ella was smiley at times and had fun out there also (she maily slept!). 
We tried numerous times to get some pictures of the girls in the middle of the pumpkins and a family picture. The family picture was not working as Olivia was done with pictures and did not want to sit on the pumpkins because they were wet. Addison just wanted to pose.
I am back at work now and going to try and keep the updates more freuqent. Oh by the way, we have digital cable at home, so I can do this from home now!!! My husband rocks!
I really enjoyed my maternity leave and was a little weepy coming back to work. The girls have been really good with Ella. I am handling my emotions much better this time. I feared the postpartum depression throughout my entire pregnancy, but I am really feeling pretty good. The girls can get under my skin at times, and I feel like I loose my patience, but I have worked really hard on patience with the girls and their attitudes and temper tantrums. 
rs to keep us busy and to give me some extra help as I recovered from my c-section. Grammy came and stayed the 1st week, and thank goodness she was here because Olivia had the flu for 7 days. It was awful. Thankfully no one else got sick. After that Jenny and Leo flew in fromIdaho for 2 weeks. The girls had so much fun playing with Leo and taking walks. I think Leo got in touch with his feminine side, much to his father's dismay. He enjoyed walking around with princess umbrellas, playing barbies with Addison and playing with the girls princess castle. Jenny and I even got enough time to make Hallooween t-shirts for the kids. 
I ran to the bathroom real quick. As I walked out, Ella started crying and I saw Olivia run away from her carseat. I better check out what happened while I was away. Ella was halfway down her carseat...Olivia was trying to pull her out of the carseat. I need to 
be sure I have my watchful eyes on all the time. Addison has taken a real liking to helping with her bottles. I have even got some helpers for "tummy time" with Ella. It was a Hannah Montana birthday for Addison in more ways than one! Check out the video..our future pop star!!
Check back soon...problems uploading!
So, a quick recap...had a baby, need sleep, dial-up internet at home. The End!!!!!!!!!!
Our life has been hectic to say the least! Ella arrived via c-section (on August 7th) much to mom's dismay. The little stinker was breech. But she came out screaming, and to think a week earlier they said her lucngs weren't developed enough yet!!! She weighed in at 7lbs 6 oz and was 20 inches. Our smallest baby by far. I knew right away she was smaller than the other girls, she looked so petite. 
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