Thank You Great-Grandma Rose!

I bought this little chair at a garage sale this past fall and just thought it was adorable (except that it needed to be cleaned). Once I brought it home and the more I thought about it I really wanted it recovered so I asked my grandma (Addie's great-grandma) and she was thrilled! My grandma has been wallpappering, recovering furniture and fixing things since before I was born, she loves that kind of stuff. She did a great job on the chair and Addie loves it. She especially likes sitting in her chair and watching Elmo. How cute is this! Thanks grandma.These next few pictures are of Addie and her first few times playing in the snow. We took her out Tuesday and Wednesday and she loved it. She also threw a ridiculous fit when we had to come inside.

I think this next picture is just cute!
I am not sure what she is doing in this picture, but it is pretty funny. My mom got her the backpack for Christmas and she loves playing with it. There is never a dull moment around our house anymore. Addie is very entertaining and always doing something funny

(sometimes not so funny).

I took Addie to the doctor for her 18 month check-up on Tuesday and it was a complete disaster. She can not stand anyone, she does not know, to invade her personal space (again, that must come from her dad). She, literally, buried her face into my shoulder and would not even talk to the doctor. She would not even play with the doctors toys, it was crazy. I had to hold her down for everything, she even cried when I put her on the scale to be weighed. I knew it was potential for disaster but I was not prepared for that. However, she is progressing developmentally and physically very well. She weighed 23 pounds which puts her in the 35th percentile and she was 33 inches long which puts her in the 95th percentile (not quite sure who she gets that from). Over all she is doing well and officially out of the baby stage, it is sad to say that my baby is a toddler! Everyday is new and exciting and we love her so much!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Elmo!?!?!

Last Friday, we got a call from my sister, she told us that Elmo was going to make an apperance at Barnes & Noble. So Jason and I thought it would be hilarious for Addie to get to meet the big red monster! Once I got off work we grabbed a bite to eat and headed to Barnes & Noble, we were very excited (you know that life has changed when you get excited to meet Elmo on a Friday night!). We wait and wait and wait and wait and wait some more. A lady came out and read Elmo books and read and read and read! By this point Addie was going a little stir crazy, she can only sit for so long. After about an hour another parent asks where Elmo was and Elmo was a no show. Apparently all of us crazy parents read the ad wrong and he was not coming. One mom told her little boy that Elmo was in a car accident (can you imagine telling that to a 3 year old, how odd is that?) We were just thankful that Addie had no idea what was really going on so she was not disappointed. This is a picture of Addie waiting for Elmo! When it was all said and done she at least got an Elmo coloring book that she loves. Elmo is her favorite and she can even sing the 'Elmo's World' theme song, it is hilarious.

These are just a few pictures that we have taken lately that I think are adorable.
In this picture, I had taken the cushions off of the couch and she was jumping all over the place, she loved it!
For Christmas, Santa brought Addie a play kitchen and for some reason she loves chewing on the celery stick.
Addie's hair is just getting long enough to put up in a ponytail. She was a little unsure about me doing something different to her hair but now she likes it and will check her hair out in the mirror.

She is at such a fun age, it seems like she does something new every day. I am so excited because Addie's OT is starting to finally decrease her sessions. Please pray that Addie adjusts to the changes and continues to progress and eat well. She has had such wonderful improvements, I am so thankful!

18 Months Old!!!!

I can not believe that my baby is a year and a half old. Time flys! This past year and a half has been so much fun with our Sweet Adeline.

Here are a few pictures to recap the last 18 months of our bundle of joy! God is so good! What a blessing she is.

Addie was just two days old in this picture.

3 weeks old. How sweet is she?

This was her first time in the exercauser. She was almost 3 months.

This was her first Halloween. I don't think she much cared for the costume!

This picture was taken when Addie was 4 months old.

This was Addie's first Christmas. She was almost five months old. I love that face. she is sitting in her new Bumbo seat, she thought she was a big girl!

January 0f 2007. Addie was 5 months old and she still loves the Bumbo seat!

She loved her exercauser! She was six and a half months old in this picture.

This was Addie's first Easter. Look at those cheeks! She was 8 months old in this picture.

Addie was 11 months old. This was her first time at the zoo. She had a lot of fun and really liked the monkeys!

Happy first birthday!

15 months and she loves to be outside.

These two pictures are Addie's first time to Newport Aquarium. She loved it! 15 months old.

Addie was 16 months old. Her second Christmas.

17 months old

18 months old. She has changed so much! I love that smile, she will even say "cheese" when I pull out the camera.

Thank you to eveyone who actully looked at every picture! We love showing her off. Everyone has been so great in helping us with Addie and all of the advice has been wonderful. Jason and I are so blessed to have such a wonderful group of family and friends. We hope you are all doing well. God bless!

Wild Sleeping!

I am a very paranoid mom (imagine that)! I used mesh bumpers for Addie's crib to prevent SIDS, but I finally decided to put the cute one in her crib since that risk is pretty much gone. The following pictures show what she thought about the new bumpers! There was no sleeping during this nap.

She threw everything out of her crib!

She finally gave in to the idea of sleeping with the new bumper!

10 Years!!!!

The Lord God said, "It is not good for man to be alone, I will make a helper suitable for him."
Genesis 1:18

Okay, so most of you know that Jason and I did not get married in January. However, we started dating on January 19, 1998! We were Sophomores in high school at Christian Academy. I can't believe that we have been together for ten years. How time flys and changes. We have come so far and we have both changed a lot in the process. I must say life is never boring when Jason is around, he is always doing something crazy (some things never change). I am very blessed that God put the two of us together. We are very different but we work well together.

My sister has aggreed to watch Addie for us, so we are actually going out on a date tonight! This does not happen very often, we ususally decide to just take Addie with us.

I hope everyone is doing well and that you enjoy your weekend.

This picture was taken in November 2006.

Bottle Free!

I am pleased to announce that Addie is officially off the bottle. Jason and I got the okay from Addie's Occupational Therapist to start weaning her off right before Christmas. She was finally getting enough nutrition from table food to sustain her weight. We decided to wait until after Christmas because we did not want to make any more changes than necessary (she does not deal well with change, she must get that from her daddy) so we waited until after the New Year. I am so glad I do not have to wash bottles anymore!

Our next bit of exciting news, Addie is doing so well eating table food that her O.T. is going to start decreasing her sessions. What a blessing! I have been so worried about our Sweet Adeline. I need to work on worrying less and relying on God more! His plan ALWAYS work out better than mine.


These are a few pictures of Addie playing outside, it is her favorite thing to do. She would play outside all day if let her.

I finally gave in...

I have been slacking on the whole blogging thing and I finally caved! I am, however, pretty excited about it because Jason and I have a lot of out of town family who we think will really enjoy this. Jason started a blog when Addie was first born but only posted a few times, hopefully I will be more diligent!

Addie is our pride and joy and this Christmas was wonderful. It was so exciting watching her open all of her gifts and the big smiles that followed. I believe that I was more excited about it than she was. Her first gift was a toy vacuum cleaner (she loves pushing things around). She did not want to open anything after that, she held the vacuum cleaner with one hand and opened other gifts with the other. She has changed my whole perspective on Christmas and life. She is such a blessing that is impossible to describe.