randomness

we've been playing a lot of pretty pretty princess and hello kitty bingo around here lately. addison's gotten really good at both games, but her attention span is lacking. oh, and she's starting to become a sore loser. we're working on that, though.

i got a keurig for my birthday and i love it. i've been having a nice cup of coffee every morning.

addison and i have been enjoying breakfast time together. i don't get to see her as much as i used to with school and work, so i've been savoring every moment with her.

we had a date a few weekends ago and went to the cheesecake factory for my birthday. well, we tried the cheesecake factory. the wait was 2 hours. ridiculous. so we went to carrabba's. where the wait was an hour. which is still ridiculous. but not as much as 2 hours. addison was SO cute. she wore the denim skirt from her 2nd birthday party. crazy, huh? it was HUGE then, and it's still a little big now. 1.5 years later. oh well. she rocked it. she wore adorable flower tights and a matching flower scarf. i about died. my baby looks so so big.

we've been having fun with granny too. we took addison's new book pinkalicious: pinkie promise on our last visit. addison loves it. we got it from her school's book fair. my mom cleaned out granny's tupperware cabinet and addison loved helping with that. she would try to match up the tops and the bottoms. she did a great job!

my spring break is next week and i'm pretty excited. although i'll still be working and probably doing a ton of homework. oh well. it's still spring break!

pink eye. and more pink eye

3 weeks ago addison had pink eye. just one eye was infected, i started giving her the drops and it cleared up completely within 48 hours.

2 weeks ago, exactly, my eye started to feel sore. i went to bed with a sore eye, and woke up with a swollen eye.

i had pink eye.

addison has had pink eye before, and i've been lucky enough not to get it. i guess my luck ran out.


this was my eye that tuesday morning. nice and swollen.

i started using the drops immediately and it seemed to get a little better.

it finally started to look like it was clearing up last sunday.

but, alas, it had decided to jump into my other eye.

lucky me.

i woke up last monday with one swollen eye and both eyes sealed shut. i'm sure that's a lovely visual for you. but seriously. pink eye is gross.

i went to the doctor and got different drops. now, a week after that, i'm all cleared up!!

i really hope i never get it again. i seems so much worse as an adult.

i was really afraid that it was going to be this vicious cycle of pink eye. i thought addison was getting it again after mine started clearing up, and i was sure i would get it from her again. but she didn't get it again and our eyes are all non-pink...

for now.

randomness

so i think it has come down to this. i'm so busy with school and work, so phone pictures is what i am resorting to.


granny played pretty pretty princess with us one night. i enjoyed seeing her in the jewels! it snowed the first time this year, and my mom snapped a pic before she took addison to school. she was ready for the snow. we went to see beauty and the beast in 3d. of course popcorn was involved. addison and i both loved it {and maegen did too! she went with us :)} my mom got some chocolate covered fruit, so addison and i had it for dessert a few nights. addison really liked the bananas. we built towers at my grandmothers house, and took turns laying down and having a tower built on our head. addison really enjoyed knocking the towers down. and lastly, a few weeks worth of balloons. a ballerina, hula monkey, and elephant. wonder what she'll get this week?

the first week

last week was my first full week of everything.

i started my internship on monday {i'm working monday, wednesday, and friday}.

and had my monday night class for the first time.

i started my first grad classes on wednesday and thursday.

and the whole week wore me out.

we did a lot of training at my internship. there are 4 tax interns in total. i'm really glad there are other interns so i don't feel like i'm the only one. the other girl tax intern has never done any tax stuff before {like me}, so we're in the same boat. the other 2 guys have, so they know more of what they're doing. but hopefully the training will just stay in my brain and i'll get the hang of it!

we moved to our desks on friday afternoon, so yesterday we started doing practice tax returns all by ourselves. luckily i'm close to the other tax people, so i was able to ask lots questions {and i have lots!}

my first grad classes went really well. wednesday night is a tax class taught by my favorite teacher, so i'm actually excited about that. and thursday is audit, which i don't like. but i had the teacher last semester and he's really nice, so hopefully it won't be too bad.

i also have friends in both classes, so that makes it a lot better.

the biggest adjustment i've had to make is not seeing addison very much. since i have 3 night classes, it means i'm not seeing her before she goes to bed those 3 nights. i missed her a lot last week and i know that will continue. grad classes are only 10 weeks, so once they're over i'll get to see her 2 more nights a week, which will be much better. i know this is for the best and will definitely be worth it in the end.

i'm officially becoming a big girl.

an ogre and a panda

a few days after christmas, we took addison back to opryland to see the christmas shrektacular. it was a free event. it was first come, first serve as far as seating went. it was really crowded when we got there {which was 30 minutes early}, but we got a good place for the kiddos to see.

not only was shrek there, but kung fu panda was there too! addison was so excited and she sang and danced the whole time. she'd answer when they asked questions and everything. it was so cute!





i'm all about the free kid events!! although you could spend $50 a person to have your picture taken when the characters. um, no thanks.