Post pics please!!!

Try to look at this pic and not say "Ahhhh" go ahead I dare ya.  :0)

OK now try to look at this one and not smile.  I can hear her squeal when I look at this one. 

Addison "helped" Papaw play pool while Anthony was at the hospital.

My brave boy heading into surgery. I adore this pic. He was a hit in surgery prep.

Showing off his name on the board. (Bottom in blue)

Anthony and his monkey Grandma got for him. The sweet nurse put an armboard on the monkey like Anthony had to make him less nervous about it. 

Anthony felt so safe with his Superman cape above him and Ironman below to protect him from unwanted guests in the room.

It was all worth it!  Papaw Gee got me a Buzz lightyear!!!  To infinity and BEYOND!

Addison enjoyed having Grandma show her how to dress up and perform.  She is singing into a plastic shelf leg.

The Addison and Victoria show!!  No applause just throw money!

Anthony finally got a Superman.  It helps to have a Grandma that is personal friends with the man that owns Horner Novelty.  Check out that face.  "I can't believe it! Superman in the flesh, well plastic"

Something else you can do with an Easter egg after Easter.

I don't care who you are that's funny!

Here are some funny things that have been mentioned in the past week or so to make you smile. 

-Addison wanted to go potty and the neat little toilet seat I blogged about earlier with the adult seat and toddler seat didn't have the toddler seat sat down.  I placed Addison on the toilet and her butt went down and her legs went up.  She looked at me and said "TOO BIG MOMMY!! IM FREAKING OUT!"

-Anthony wanted to snuggle after his nap today.  I was in the process of making dinner (which by the way I am running out of ideas on soft food for Anthony, any ideas?) and he and Addison were hanging out on the couch.  They hugged and gave each other a kiss and were holding hands for a bit.  I turned to Addison and asked her "You want to snuggle Anthony for mommy?"  She turned to me in the kitchen, flipped her bangs out of her face and said "We don't snuggle." 

-Anthony loves his guitar.  He has to have on his sunglasses and sing as loud as he can "Wiggle Party"
I apologize you will have that song stuck in your head for DAYS!!  It is Anthony's favorite.  Anyway back to my point my mother found a ukulele that my dad is going to put strings on so that Anthony can have a "tar" (guitar) like "Papaw Gee" (Papaw Jerry) He will be beside himself!

Back to normal but better

Ok things have started to slow down a bit.  Anthony sailed through his surgery.  They know how to make a mom nervous by giving you all of the "just in case" info before taking him in.  They told me not to be alarmed if they take him to ICU and has oxygen.  They said that he is high risk going into surgery due to his history of colic, sleep apnea, and size of his tonsils.  I was doing some hard praying.  He did amazing!  He was admitted just so that he could be under observation but he didn't even need a tube in his ear.  I will post pics on here tomorrow hopefully.  I just wanted to let everyone know that we are home and he is doing well.  I actually leaned over his bed last night because I was alarmed I couldn't hear him breathe.  Usually you could hear him at the other end of the house like he was right next to you.  His snoring due to his airway being blocked was horrible now he is such a sound sleeper.  He is more rested and hasn't complained about eating soft food yet.  The kid likes his popsicles.  :)

The job is a no go.  The HR called and was as sweet as could be and they told me that they would like to keep me in mind for future positions that may come up.  I am totally fine with it.  I went into it with the resolve to do the best that I could and be fine either way.  Something else down the road might have my name on it, but for right now I am suppose to be home.  Thanks for the prayers this week.  Glad to have everyone home safe and healthy.

She works hard for the money?

Today I had my first interview that I have had in about 6 years.  A job opening came up at church for the Paid Childcare Coordinator.  Responsibilities would be to handle all things that come with childcare for special events in the church outside of regular service times (i.e. bible study, support groups, conferences).  I did my best at the interview and hope for the best.  More to follow.  They hope to reach a decision by the end of the week.

Spiritual gifts

In our last team leader meeting we took a test to see what our spiritual gifts were.   Creative Communications, Craftsmanship, Hospitality, and Faith.  Looks like I am serving in the right place.  I didn't think that I would discover one of my children's spiritual gifts at 2 1/2.  James has been complaining of a headache all day today.  While at the dinner table eating our Taco Bell taco bar, or the "here make it yourself" bar as we call it at our house, James said something about it again.  Addison stopped eating.  Put her hands together and bowed her head (prayed) for a second real quiet and looked up at James and said "Daddy you be better!"  Spiritual gift of prayer maybe??

Tantrums

Oh how my youngest daughter has perfected her art.  The last few days with Miss Addison Marie have been quite a challenge.  She goes from sweet smiling to full blown fist swinging, leg kicking tantrum in .8 seconds.  Tuesday mom came over to eat with us and she started in.  I ended up putting her to bed and she removed her diaper.  I put diaper back on with the assistance of a little duck tape. She removed duck tape and wrapped it very tightly around the rail of her bed and was dancing around naked with two halves of a plastic Easter eggs strategically placed over her nipples.  Oh how cute! (please don't forget the sarcastic tone)  I then tapped her little bottom, put yet another diaper on her, duck taped it, and placed her in a zip up sleeper with arms and legs cut out backwards so she couldn't get out.  Boy this really ticked her off!  She screamed for an hour and a half solid.  Mom and I took the other kids outside and played a bit and let her scream it out (or I was going to myself).  Any advice here?  This is happening daily now.

Oh...my....gotsh.....

Huge milestone in the Craig home today.  Late Mother's day present maybe?  Bath water was ready and I was corralling children for bath time.  I asked Addison if she would like to pee on the potty before bath time.  She said yes and headed over bare butt to the toilet.  (Side note:  Walmart has a toilet seat with two seats, one adult one toddler.  Worth the money)  She hiked her little bootie up on the stool and waited.  Ok forgive the details but I saw it coming and I held my breath in anticipation, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.  Yes she was doing a #2!  (Insert tiny little splash)  Addison says looking down into the toilet, "Oh....my.....gotch......I JUST POOP IN POTTY!!!"  She was so proud of herself!  She danced and pranced and we immediately called Daddy.  "Daddy I poop in potty" and then peed all over the towel she was sitting on.  Many "Poop in potty" calls were made today.  Very proud of my girl. We have tried panties twice today, both ended up wet.  But we are still trying.  She got her stickers, her poop in potty crown that Victoria loaned her from her room and got a piece of celebratory peanut butter pie.