Hello? Helllloooooo?

Addy goes around the house acting like she’s on the phone =) She holds the phone to her ear and tilts her head sideways and waits for you to say “Hello? Hellllloooooo?” hahahhahaha It’s too cute. If you say hello she put whatever’s in her hand (or even just her hand) up to her head and giggle.

good times

Sooo it’s taken me a while to do this post. Sorry guys! I usually have pictures on my phone to post but this time they were on the camera. Anyways…we went to NWA a couple weeks ago :) We had an AWESOME time at Papa and Grandma Nancy's!!! Mom, Stevie, Addy and I all went to the Jenks Aquarium! Addy LOVED it! There was a shark tank with a tunnel you could walk through, where the sharks swam all around you. She had a lot of fun at the touching pools. Stevie picked up some shrimp for her to touch…and she got excited and smacked it half to death! There was also a pool where you could touch stingrays and sharks. Unfortunately, we had taken her swimming the day before and she got upset she couldn’t get IN the stingray pool hahaha. My favorite part of the day was when she had a “coughing” contest with Mom. She thought it was the funniest thing in the world to cough. She was trying so hard her eyes were bugging out lol.

hahaha that was too funnycoughing game with Grandma!

We also had Adalynn’s baby dedication! She wore the same beautiful dress Anna Grace, Ava and one of her cousins wore…I love that! We had a great time and got some awesome pictures.

big news!

Adalynn’s 9 month check-up was this week. She’s 27 ½ inches long, 17 pounds and 14 ounces, with a head circumference of 18. She’s doing great!! She’s only gained about a pound and a half since last visit, so she’s still on the small side, but the doctor said that was just fine.


And we’ve got big news……drum roll please…..she’s been standing ALL BY HERSELF!!! Not for very long lol but it’s a start. Unfortunately, this means she’s also busted her face on the coffee table =( She has been teething (they’ve broke skin!) and when she fell, she hit her top tooth on the coffee table and cut it pretty bad. I felt awful for her bc they had already been hurting and that couldn’t have helped.

Addy has learned a few more things this past week: Eskimo kisses, high-fives, saying “mmmwah” when she gives kisses, and she realized she can reach the piano (not my favorite!). She’s also completely mastered rolling over and crawling away mid diaper change ;) And she dances hahaha. She’ll go to her activity table, make it play music then start dancing and singing….too freakin’ cute!

9 months!

I can’t believe Adalynn is NINE months today! She’s grown up so fast. She’s such a happy baby and man, does she have some personality :) She’s recently started to understand joking and playing. She LOVES playing chase…she’ll take off and stop to look at me and when I come after her she throws her arms up, starts laughing and crawling as fast as she can! She also has an amazing ability to ignore me…especially if veggies are involved.


Here’s an overview of our last couple weeks!

I took her to see a kiddy music group at the library. She was hilarious :) Much to Jason’s pleasure she loves music. She was clapping, singing, and dancing! She sings at church too lol…a very loud “AHHHhhhhHHHHHhhh”.

Addy enjoyed her first Fourth of July! She was in awe of all the fireworks (as well as some light sabers a bunch of kids had…I fully expect a “Mommy can I” next year!). The look of wonder on her face was so sweet.

We also went to the Little Rock zoo with Pappy. Most of the animals were inside, laughing at all the supposedly “smarter species” walking around in the heat, so we didn’t see a whole lot :) But she loved the giraffes…and of course, her favorite, the snow cone! I had thought I would get a sweet picture of her enjoying the carousel, but she was in an all out war with her hair bow…the bow lost :)

Woo Hoo

Woo Hoo!! Adalynn has accomplished so much today! I woke up to her standing in her crib, banging and saying “mamamama”. AND she’s started crawling on all fours! YAY Addy!!!! Only problem is she gets frustrated because she wants to walk and pull up on everything but can’t yet.


She went swimming at Aunt Marilyn’s the other day and LOVED it! She wasn’t real sure what to think at first, but before long she was kicked back in her floatie and splashing! We took her to the park last week and she loves swinging =) It’s gonna be a great summer!!

boat rides and elephants

Hey guys! It’s only been a few weeks but it seems like so much has happened!

First of all…my first MOTHERS DAY!!!! It was great :) Jay teased me a little because I would tear up at the commercials haha. Even fake deliveries on tv make me cry now (yeah I know…corny) It’s just such an overwhelming feeling to love someone so much. You would think some of that would wear off in the day to day living but we still are amazed every time she smiles or laughs.

We went to NWA a couple weeks ago. She had a great time playing with Jennie. She hung out with Aunt Stevie for a while and we also got to see Papa and Grandma! She got to show off her army crawl for everyone =) We’re still not crawling on all fours but I know she can because I’ve seen her do it. I think she just feels she can get around much faster her way!

 

We spent this last weekend at Pappy and Gida’s house. My nieces, Anna Grace and Ava, were there as well and Adalynn had a blast playing with them. Anna Grace is such a great cousin. She would hold Addy and say “Aunt Danielle I just love her sooo much”….so sweet! I wish we could’ve got Ava and Addy on camera. They were on the floor of the kitchen and Ava kept pressing her nose to Adalynn’s and giving Eskimo kisses :)

 

While we were there we took Adalynn on a short boat ride on the Little Red River. Needless to say Jay didn’t get to stay long enough to catch a fish! She liked riding but she and Anna Grace weren’t big fans of the life jackets. We also went to an elephant sanctuary. Addy didn’t really pay attention to the elephants but I had fun =)

And guess what? She’s got another tooth! We’ve got two on the bottom now and it looks like a top one might come in soon. She’s started eating some finger foods now and loves it! Rice husks and puffs are a life saver. I was afraid were about to be eating a lot of take-out but it looks like we can still go to restaurants for a while longer haha