The Prodical Mommy Returns (i hope!)

i just can't believe it's been 10 months, almost to the day, since i've last posted! well, i guess i can believe it! so much has happened and changed since the last time i've dropped by. back in september, i unexpectedly discovered i was pregnant with our 4th baby. i NEVER in a million years thought i would be the one who would have a surprise pregnancy, due to all the problems we've had in the past...each pregnancy was meticulously planned. i was pretty worried when i found out, since i had just decided that we were only going to have 3 children, but i was excited at the same time! what a strange feeling to be scared and excited at the same time.

so, from the beginning of the pregnancy, i have had absolutely NO desire to go into the office and jump on the computer to blog, email, or even digital scrapbook (which i've been in love with doing). that explains my long absence.

since this pregnancy was a total surprise, i decided that we might as well make everything a surprise and not find out the sex of the baby. and because we have 2 girls and a boy already, it wasn't hard for me this time around to not find out. with both the previous times, i was dying with the desire to find out what the sexes were, till i just gave in and found out!! and of course jeff and i had to give the baby a nickname that followed suit with the other kids' nicknames...jeff picked "oscar the grouch" go figure! hence the new blog title "Grovers, Cookie, & Oscar..." through out the WHOLE pregnancy, i knew without a doubt that this was going to be a boy! the baby was so crazy active, that it couldn't be anything BUT a boy. well....needless to say, Addisyn was born on june 10th, weighing a whooping 8# 8oz! the biggest baby yet for us, but then again, i've never been 39 weeks pregnant before either!













it's been "okay" since she's been born...there have been good days and not so good days. she's a GREAT sleeper (like the rest of the kids have been) she can go 5 to 6 hrs at a time...but only during the day! LOL, she's not so great during the night! just the past couple of days she's been pretty good where she'll go to sleep around 9pm or 10 and not wake up until 3:30am or 4:30am. the thing i'm not used to is that with maddy, our 3rd child, she would just eat then i could put her down and she would go right to sleep, addisyn on the other hand will NOT fall asleep unless she is being held in the baby bjorn! it gets a little tiring to do in the middle of the night, but all in all, it's not really that bad! and since i know this is our last baby, i'm taking these things more in stride because of that fact. i'm trying to cherish each phase of her life, and to live in each moment...unlike with sam and cora, where i just couldn't wait for them to get to 4 or 5 months old, since i was so stressed over newborn/infant twins. then with maddy, her whole infancy was gone in a flash without me even realizing it! don't get me wrong, i still can't wait until addisyn is a few months old, so it will seem a little easier, but at least i'm relishing each moment :) (sometimes not so happily LOL)!

all the kids absolutely love her!! i was so worried that maddy would resent the new baby when she came or feel jealous...but she has shown no signs of that, thankfully. maddy loves to give "baby Daddisyn" (as maddy pronounces it) lots and lots of kisses, of course it's always when i'm feeding her! i guess it really helps that maddy has always grown up with 2 other siblings, so there have always been plenty of kids in the house, so what's one more added to the mix? i just love it when maddy says "baby daddisyn...CUUUTE" while she pats either addisyn's head or belly! it's just too cute to see her say and do that.

whew, that wasn't so bad, having been gone for 10 months, i was dreading coming back and having to post! but i guess i'm a chatterbox, and tend to go on and on. i'll leave now, with a few more pictures...











in this last picture, the nurses at the hospital just loved playing with her thick, dark hair! they found a piece of ribbon and tied it to her hair LOL!