V is for Victory

We made it.  One Whole Year on 100% Breastmilk.  Blood, sweat and tears - the hardest nursing experience Amy has had, and that is saying something after Zachary the "Rip You Apart" and Kaleb "NICU Pumping Mom" experiences!  YEAH!!! No more worrying that you're not making enough each day, and no more being tied to the chair 8 times a day! What a sense of accomplishment, and now (shockingly still with some level of guilt), the nursing train is coming to a stop.  Amy has started the weaning process, and was super relieved when Addison took a bottle of breastmilk/whole milk and chugged it down with no problems!  She seems to not mind it at all, which is a major relief.

As we always report on the prior week's happenings for the blog updates, we'll share Addison's family one year birthday party pictures next weekend.  Last weekend, we were able to join in a birthday celebration for Kieran and Erik.  This was the third weekend in a row, so the boys have been in 7th heaven with the amount of cake that they've been allowed to consume!  It was a pool party at the Cochrans again (poor folks hosting two parties in a matter of a couple of weeks, they will be happy to be back to rights again!)  It was a construction themed party, which was awfully cute.


One of the few pictures we have of Auntie Heather holding Addison!

The Aqua Rocker was a bit hit!

Kieran, Kaleb and Zachary hanging out in the rocker together

About to sing Happy Birthday to Erik (orange shirt on the left) and Kieran (dark blue shirt on the right)

In other news, it looks like we'll be able to close on our house this week.  YEAH!  It'll be such a relief to only have our house to worry about from now on, instead of both homes.  Karis moved over the rest of the office furniture today and decided to leave the playset there, as it appeared to be aging and he felt like it would be a lot of work to move it and have to put it back together again. 

Phrase of the week:  One night this week, Kaleb got up in the middle of the night and came to Amy's bed after saying that he heard 'something' in his room.  As she walked him back to his room, he said "Can you sleep with me?"  and she answered, "No, you sleep by yourself" and he said "Why!?  YOU sleep with someone!"  Ha ha, there was no good retort for that one, because it's true!