Wheelbarrow Rides $2

John is a great daddy! On this particular evening, he decided to load the kids up in the wheelbarrow and take them for a ride to the log deck. The kids had so much fun!

Like Father, Like Son

This is a picture of John's new truck (and his other one also). It has been and still is a huge project. He is converting the black Pete into a self loading truck. John has Tracen convinced that the new truck is his and he is soooo excited! Tracen is actually the one that wanted me to take these pictures.

"Mom, Aubrey's stuck!"

The last snow storm that we had left our place a muddy mess! Tracen was building sand castle's in our back yard and Aubrey wanted to join him. As you can see in the pictures, she didn't make it very far. If you look closely, you can see her shoes still stuck in the mud. It was pretty funny!

Amazingly enough she did't fall over and get her white shirt dirty but she did reach down and touch the mud!

Addison Leigh Rothermich

Addison Leigh joined our family on May 1st at 4:42 a.m. She weighed 7 pounds 10 ounces and was 20 inches long. Everyone has to ask, "Did Tracen and Aubrey have really dark hair like that?" The answer is yes. It lightens up as they get older.
Okay so here is the funny part. My sister-in-law and I were due on the same day (May 9th) and ended up in the hospital on the same day! Addison and Sydney would have the same birthday but I checked in about 12 hours after Shae and being that I tested positive for Group B Strep, I needed 8 hours of penicilin. That put me into the next day.
Everyone in our family is doing great. Aubrey and Tracen love their little sister. Tracen always wants to hold her and Aubrey is my human baby monitor and lets me know when she's crying by saying, "baby cying". She also tries to put the pacifier in her mouth. Aubrey thinks that when she has hers in her mouth that Addison needs one too. And John, he's just trying to figure out how he is going to fit three kids in his recliner!

"Ee, oo stinky!"

I never knew how difficult it would be to start potty training right before having another baby! I am so exhausted!! I hardly want to get up let alone chase an almost 2 year old to the bathroom saying, "run, hurry to the potty!" Who am I kidding, my run these days is a normal, pre-pregnancy walk. : ) She is doing very well though. She caught on to the number 2 business pretty easily. Whoever is in the room with her just needs to listen carefully for her cue, "Ee, oo stinky." That means I gotta go or it's going in my pull-up really soon. She also doesn't lke it to be in there so she then proceeds to take off her pull-up. Ya, that is not fun! My hope is that we don't have to buy two different sizes of diapers when the new little one gets here. We'll see. As for now, we are just trying to be patient and wait for our new bundle to arrive.

Boots!

Isn't she cute! Notice that she is wearing Tracen's work boots. She loves shoes just like the rest of the girls in our family (oh does Drew count?) but she really loves boots. I think because her daddy wears work boots too. She loves everyone so much but she especially loves her daddy!!!! Their relationship is so adorable. :)

Copycat

Aubrey decided that what Tracen was doing looked like fun so she started doing it to. The rest of bath time that night was a blast (not!) because she would not sit up so I could wash her. So on this particular night, the kids were late to bed.