Why oh Why Must They Grow so Fast?

So 2 months ago we decided to put Jack's toddler bed together and see how he would do. Well he tanked, so we were just going to leave the bed up and give him some time. Two weekends ago we were over at the Ortowski's house helping them get things organized and get Me Me moved into her own room and into her big girl bed. Jack played on her bed and really liked it. I decided that Sunday morning I would get his mattress out of his crib and just put it on the big boy bed and see how he would do. I was super surprised, he napped there Sunday and even went to bed well that night. Jimmy and I left his door closed so he couldnt wonder the house just in case he decided to get up. We thought ok we better have the crib close just in case this ends in disater. Well I happy to report just over one week later and he is still sleeping in his bed like a champ and actually enjoying the independence. I'm sad but also loving that my sweet baby is growing up. He is also starting to show interest in the potty, maybe we will have a potty trained Jack by the end of the year, LOL I can wish can't I.

Two weekends ago we also planned our container garden we had talked about doing since early winter time. Trenton is really into seeing this grow and learning about the earth so we decided this was a good next step and with the price of fresh veggies we thought we could at least try to get some goodness out of it. So we got up early Saturday a week ago and went to Wal-Mart for Organic Garden Soil, Cucumber Seeds, Cilantro Seeds, Sweet Basil Seeds, Garlic Bulbs, and Onion Bulbs. We then went to Lowe's for Pots, Tomato Plants, Bell Pepper Plants, and Japaleno plants. We went home and planted everything while Jackson took his nap. I will get a picture soon so everyone can see. We have onions, garlic, cucumbers, cilantro and bell peppers all sprouting so far. I'm hopefully that this will end well. LOL

A lot of big news has been happening around me lately. My best friend is prego, super excited, she is finally getting a boy. Hooray Baby Nathan. My good friend is getting divorced, :-(, happy that she is finally becoming happy again though. An old friend is prego also, kind of a shock but she is excited so I'm trying to be supportive and helpful. We are actually giving her Jack's crib. We signed Trenton up for Kindergarten this past week, I can't believe he will be in Kindergarten. I want to cry. Man he is all sass lately also, you would think he was the parent and I was the kid. LOL Jack will be starting Early Preshool at Primrose in June, I'm so excited he gets this experience at this school. We are super stoked that he will have the same Teacher that Trenton did, she is awesome.

As for me, I HAVE HAIR GROWING. LOL I want to shout it from the roof tops but I'm afraid of heights LOL. It is just peach fuzz stubble but I will take that. I stopped taking my BC 6 weeks ago not because we are trying for another Schaefer but because we think this might help with my mood and hair growth. So far the mood has gotten a little better and the hair growth is definitely incouraging. We will see. I will also update a picture of this soon too. Not much to see yet but it would be nice to track it.

Ok well that is all for now I guess.

Time Flies and and Fan Page

I guess I need to update more often. LOL Time it just flies by and gets away from me. Since I last updated I have done some thinking. Mainly about where I want to go with my life and my career. I have been at the same job for nearly 7 years which is pretty much all of my adult life. I love the company I work for and I love the people but the actual day in and day out job is becoming a little on the boring side. I started the sewing business to keep my brain occupied and hopefully bring in some extra money. It is doing its job but I want more. I really want to stay home with my boys, even though I know Trenton is getting a great education and Jack soon will be to when they move in June. I guess it is just a natural Mommy feeling, oh well.

We have talked back and forth about having a 3rd sweet baby, I have the feeling of not being complete from time to time. Well we talked about it again this weekend and came to a real decision. We are ok, well we are actually great with our family of 4. We really want to start traveling and planning vacations a few years from now whent he boys get a little older, so we have decided that we are good. I will keep sewing my sweet baby items and hopefully that will help with my "I need a baby" feeling. LOL Also I now have a fan page on FB, look me up (If I have any followers LOL). Addi Lyn Creations.

Here is some pictures of what I have been sewing lately.

Baby Girl Set (again I have no clue why it wont turn the correct way)

Baby Boy Set

Playdoh and Crayon Roll Ups

Other than sewing I have been spending time with my sweet family. My hubby has been working tons lately, they switched cell phone providers so he had to help everyone with their change overs. He is also playing Adult Softball with some of his buddies, he is loving it.

So we set some goals for Trenton before he starts Kindergarten in August; tie his shoes by himself, and being reading on his own. Well on Sunday Feb 27 Trenton ties his new shoes on his own. He is doing really well, he still needs help on occasion but he is doing a great job. Also his treach sent home a "Happy Gram" last week letting him know how proud she was of him for reading a book on his own. Not sure if it was from memory or making up his own story but he is doing really well with word and letter recognition. I'm so excited for him.

Jackson's vocabular has taken off lately. He told me Friday night, no more fishes mommy. LOL I laughed, it was so cute, he also said Pee Pee and Poop over the weekend. Not the best words but good since we are trying to get him used to potty words and hope that potty training goes well when he is ready in a few months. Oh a sad note, Jack has his first case of Pink Eye. :-( But luckily we had some drops left over from when Trenton had it last year, so I sterilized the bottle and have been using them since Sunday morning.

Oh on a good food note, Blue Goose Cantina, it is the BOOM. That sounds so old school, but that place is so great. Jimmy and I got a Mommy and Daddy night Saturday night so we decided to give it a try. I had the Brisket Tacos, and oh man they were the best I have ever had. Jimmy got the beff fajitas and he loved them also. Great night in my book.

So They Says It's My........

So they say it's my Birthday, Happy Birthday to ME. LOL

So my last update was not so upbeat. I was stressed and beat down with a few things. I'm better now. I can't believe that I'm 28 today, man, I dont even feel old. I actually had to ask my Mom yesterday how old I really was. LOL. My sweet hubby planned a Family Birthday Dinner for me on Saturday, well it almost didnt happen. Two kids in Trenton's class had the flu and other went home with fevers, I was really hoping we would get through this sickness time without catching anything. Well we almost did, Trenton only ran a low grade fever, 100.6 and the cut off is 100.4, Friday and Saturday. Dinner was almost derailed because it got up to 101 but went down quickly with Motrin and after that never came back. Thank the lord for that one. We went to Rosa's for some yummy Mexican Food and cookie cake curtacy of my "Sis" Hollie and her sweet family. Then back to our house to hang out and enjoy each other.

Sunday was the beginning of the NASCAR season, which if anyone knows my family this is huge. We had the Ortowski's over for lunch, and I made some killer Potato Salad (that is what my hunny said, I don't eat it I just make it). It was nice to just hang out and not have to worry about being anywhere.

That brings us to Monday, yesterday, Jimmy and I fought most of the morning. We worked everything out, but man that makes for a bad day. I was upset that I wasnt going to get much of anything for my birthday since we are tight on money. Well my hubby pulled out all the stops and some how came home with a NOOK COLOR for me. This is what I have been wanting since before Christmas. I totally love, I think the boys will enjoy the Children's Books also. I can't wait to use it more and get some great books.

Now on to my sewing stuff, I actually got with the times and got a Facebook Fan Page for my little Addi Lyn Creations business. LOL I'm actually kind of excited about it. I have also added some new items to my list of things. My new thing is Pacifier Clips and Bibs. I actually created a really cute set last night.



For some reason it won't rotate but you can get the idea.

 I also created a pillow for Trenton's bed.



Someone please clue me in as to how I can rotate.

 Well not sure my I cant fix those but again you get the idea.

Ok well I'm off to enjoy my day. I hope you do too.

The Month of February

February is normally a super happy Month for me. I usually call it my Birthday Month and enjoy each and every day of it. Well this year it seems different to me. It isn't the age thing that is getting to me it is work and my strong urge to home with my sweet boys. That isn't in the cards for my sweet family right now, and I know the eduation they are both getting and will be getting (they are moving to Primrose Hickory Creek in June) is great and very important. I just feel lost I guess, I love my family more than anything in this world, I love my sewing business, but there is something missing and it isnt my hair. LOL.

On a "hair" note, I do have some growth but just not where I want it. I'm starting to grow stubble on my knees and arm pits again. Who knows if it will stay but it does give me hope of some day growing my eyebrows and eye lashes back at least.

Maybe my down feelings are because I'm not sure if we want to expand our family further or not. Just days after having Jack I had the urge that I wasn't done and that I didn't feel complete. After 18 months my answer has changed back and forth a few times. I feel complete and ready to start a new chapter and saving for family vacations but then that all changes in a second when I think about well what about adding a brother/sister to the mix. Maybe I'm just having baby fever since my best friend is prego. Who knows. We will see what God's plan is and go from there.

So yeah my birthday is in 7 days so I guess I will update again between now and then.

Sewing and a Runny Nose

This week has been filled with good things for the most part. If you remember from my one of my other updates I said we got our window shot out by a B B. Well my dad contacted his window company and they replaced it, get this, for FREE. There are still good people in this world. I was so happy that I cried. That saved me so much money and heartache.

As far as luck goes my week only got better. I got tons sewing orders thanks to my great friends that truly believe in me. This is the greatest thing in the world. I got 4 dresses done, one being a RUSH order, in less than 2 days. No small feet when you work full time outside the house, have two crazy boys, and a great Hubby. I did it, everyone loves their dresses. I already have a pretty full week for next week too, have to finish a Valentine's Dress for my Maleaha, make some great burp cloths for a sweets friends new baby, make a dress for a friend at work, and finish my boys tie shirts for an upcoming Cupid Party at school. I'm blessed to be busy and able to use my creativity in an affective way. I'm also going to start making something new very soon. PACI CLIPS. I'm so excited about these. I found and ordered for lead free suspender clips from a great site and even got them at wholesale price. I can't wait to show these off. They will be awesome. Oh and how can I forget to add this, I'm now an offical business owner. I got my Sales Tax and Use Certificate in the mail yesterday. So So So Excited. Addi Lyn Creations will hopefully be around for a long time to come.

So when I tell help about Alopecia I normally dont talk much about the nitty gritty details, I really try to save people the boring story. Well I'm going to give you some insight to the not so fun details. So when I was first diagnosed with Alopecia I just had the basic AA, Alopecia Areata, which means it is just spots on the scalp and can come and go. I can grow into other types, well mine did. At first we thought it had just moved to Alopecia Totalis, which is just a loss of the hair on your head. But quickly realized that wasnt it. What I have is called Alopecia Universalis, or universal hair loss (full body). So when a normal person gets  runny nose it tickles there nose hair before it gets yucky, well guess what? I don't have nose hair so when I have a runny nose (like I do right now) I can't feel it. I will spare you the rest of the details of that happens next. LOL. So if you see me whiping my nose quite a bit you will know why. The same goes for my eye, I have to eye lashes so I get stuff in my eyes constantly and have to carry eye drops. Simple things that I used to take for granted and now I just have to deal with. Oh well it is just hair. LOL

Hair (or lack there of) and Ideas in My Little Head

So I haven't put a picture up on here with me with hair (Pre Shave). So I figured today was a good day.

This Picture was taken on Trenton's 4th Birthday, exactly 1 wk and 1 day before we shaved my head. I still had my eye brows and eye lashes.

Now here is a picture of me 2 days before Christmas, Almost 4 months Post Shaved.

                        No Hair on my head, no Eye brows, no Eye Lashes. Just me, take it or leave it.

Now on to what I have been making soon. Snack/Sandwich Bag, Valentine's Tie Shirt, and a decorated Cloth Diaper.

                                                              Snack / Sandwich Bag

                                      Trenton's Valentine's Tie Shirt (don't worry Jack is getting one too)

                                                     Jack's decorated Cloth Diaper Blankie
Anyone who has seen Jack recently know that he has a new name and it is Linus, the kid carries a blankie around everywhere with his thumb in his mouth. It is so cute and funny. Oh yeah he does have a few new words; FOO BALL, Bus, Yes. So funny.

A BB Hole and Weekend with Friends

Saturday my lovely hubby got up and headed outside to take down the Christmas Light, yes we are that family, LOL, while I got the boys fed. He was almost done when he found something very odd.

At the top right of this photo you will notice something quite allarming. Yes that is a hole in the outside glass. If you look at the bottom middle of the photo you will notice a small goldish BB and glass. Ugh. Well at least it is just the outside glass and not the whole window, but stil a bummer none the less. Oh well. My Dad works in construction so I will give him a call and get a number for a glass guy. We have no clue when this happened, we had the blinds open the Sunday before to see the snow so had to of happened during the week last week. We don't live in the hood but man this makes me thing we do. LOL

That was Saturday morning, so after this we got ready and got out to get our errands done before meeting up with the Ortowski's. I got my AE jeans exchanged, zipper we messed up. Used Jimmy's Best Buy rewards points at Best Buy on some giftcards for ourselves. LOL. Got the list of things we needed at Target and by then had two super hungry boys and a flustered mommy. We headed to Rosa's for some lunch and then back towards home. Got the boys to lay down for a little while and then it was time to go meet the Ortowski's at Joann's for Hollie and I to pick out some crazy fun fabric for Valentine's dresses. I also got some fabric to make some more food safe water resistant reuseable lunch/snack bags and some cute outer cotton fabric to go with that. Then it was over to their house for dinner. Garlic Potatoes, YUMMO.

Sunday was Maleaha's 2nd Birthday party at the Ortowski's house. So we got up ate quickly and made our way as a family to the grocery store to get out list for the week. I started The Grocery Game this past week and wanted to put my knowledge to use. We ended up saving over $16 total at Kroger, not bad for our first time out of the gate. We will see if that total increases in the coming weeks. So far my coupons saving have paid for a month of The Grocery Game charges, in just one week. Bargin in my eyes. After that we showered and headed to the Ortowski's to help with party preparations. We ate pizza, watched Maleaha open presents and then she had had enough and needed a nap. So we had a few cupcakes and decided to call it a day when Jack start to get fussy at about 5:30. We went home napless so far for the day and just lounged for the rest of the evening.

Jack's words I forgot on my prevous post:
Pweese (Please)
Here Go (as in, Here you go)He says Here Go Mommy mostly
No