another one bites the dust

in an earlier post, i said something along the lines of 'we have a new nativity set & it was a good deal & i shouldn't really get worked up about addy playing with it...' blah blah blah. well, addy is holding me to that. the other day she was playing with it & we were talking about how the angel told the shepherds & the wise men about baby jesus being born...LOW & BEHOLD the angel was blowing it's own horn a bit too much b/c it's arms & trumpet were taken away, by addy. all it took was one swift drop off the table & the angel is now armless & hornless.

that sealed my decision of not to care if things get ruined or messed up with kids in the house. i really had thought that before & that's the main reason why we still have the UGLY tile & nasty carpet from the previous owners in our house. things are just things, eh?

on tuesday, my dad was taken back to the cleveland clinic ER b/c he was having another diverticulitis flair up...very very painful. he was admitted to the hospital & nearly had emergency surgery to remove part of his colon, which was originally scheduled to be performed this coming monday...but that is now postponed until the inflammation goes down, sometime in february. this is really hard on him in general, the pain from the perforations in the colon, plus the medicine/antibiotics to keep the inflammation down...well it just makes for a generally crappy time. so i went with my sister to cleveland on wednesday to see him. it's very sad & humbling to see someone you love in so much pain. BUT the good news is that now he can eat christmas dinner! (if he had surgery on monday, he would be on a restricted diet for awhile) so we are thinking up a wonderful meal that will last all day. this afternoon he was sent home, so he now has his own comfortable bed & his grand new TV & the best nurse of all (my mom).

addy & amelia's pictures are below; this was from last week. amelia didn't cooperate very well, so there's more of addy....you'll just have to wait to see our christmas picture thing to see the rest.
this was the outfit addy picked out for a photo shoot:

funny addy story from today: addy sits in the infant swing. infant swing folds somehow & collapses on addy. addy is sandwiched in swing & flailing her arms & legs about, letting out loud yelps & cries. the mama is talking on the phone & quickly says goodbye (sorry mom) to help addy out of the precarious situation. addy cries & cries & cries, pointing at the swing, saying "bad, bad."
it's very unusual for addy to cry over getting hurt, so this was a pretty scary thing for her, apparently. she did have a slightly bloody nose & some purple fingers from a pinch & a welt on her left cheek. but holy crap, folks, it was HILARIOUS. i really had to bite my lip to not laugh when consoling her...one of the funniest sights i've seen in awhile.

& millie, oh millie. we have taken to calling her "millionaire"...it started with millie, then went to mills, then millionaire. she's been having a rough week or two. stuffy nose, low grade fever every once in awhile, general crankiness. we were going to wait until monday to see if she improved, then take her to the pediatrician if not. well, this morning, i saw this white thing coming out of her gums & i was shocked; GASP: maybe she was teething! but it was coming from her molar area & pointed towards her cheek...weird. long story short: it's a benign cyst, sometimes called 'baby pearl' or something like that. anyway, no problem. (we obviously took her to the ped b/c it looks rather odd & freakish). as for the general crankiness & minor illness: a passing little virus, as suspected. she should return to normal in a few days or up to a week...but we are VERY tired.