April/May random phone pictures.

3 months!

Addie is 3 Months Old!

My sweet girl. You are just amazing. Sometimes I stare at you in disbelief.  You have such a sweet kind soul.  You melt my heart with your smiles and little giggles.  You are a very happy baby.  You only get fussy at night when it's time for you to go to bed and occasionally when Mommy has kept you out shopping too long. 

You love being outside.  We go for walks often and you just stare up at the trees.  All the neighbors love to stop and and talk to you.  You usually smile for just about everyone when you meet them.

Last week you started going to the play care at the gym.  Mommy was very nervous and even cried when she dropped you off...even though you were only 20 yards away.  Mrs. Earline takes good care of you and you haven't cried once.  Mommy is feeling much better now that she gets to exercise. 

You suck on your hands a lot.   You still don't like a paci too much, but Mrs. Earline got you to take it for a few minutes the other day. 

You are starting to try to roll over from your back to your stomach.  Your turn your head way back and try but you haven't mastered it just yet. 

You like your swing a lot more these days and often take naps in it.  You like to watch Mommy and Gigi cook and do dishes while you swing.  The swing sits right in front of the washer and dryer so I think those noises are soothing to you.

You are sleeping like a champ.  Like clockwork every night around 9-930 you get a little whiny and I know it's time to give you a bottle and when you fall asleep you don't wake up if we make too much noise, unlike during the day.  Lately you have been sleeping until 5-6 am and then back to sleep until 8 when Mommy and Daddy get up.

Gigi has been keeping you two days a week since Mommy went back to work.  It was so hard for Mommy to leave you, but Daddy made her.  :) Just kidding.  We have spent all our days and nights together so far. So when it came time to leave you for 13 hours, Mommy was very sad.  Thankfully Gigi was here to take care of you.  She sings you songs, reads to you, plays with you, and makes sure you get a good nap or two each day.  Daddy comes home and takes over for the evening shift. This is about the time you get cranky.

You are in size 2 diapers now.  You are wearing 3-6 month clothes and even some 6-9 month onesies.  Last week you weighed just a little over 13 lbs.  You have not been sick yet..although you did have the start of a little eye infection last week that we caught early.

You are grabbing onto things now very well.  The sweetest moment for me is when you are eating and you hold tightly onto my shirt. Your little fist holds tight until you are finished or until you fall asleep.    You tug on Mommy's hair all the time.  You have learned to tug on the toys hanging from your play gym also...and you put them right into your mouth. 

You like tummy time more-so these days, especially if I put you tummy side down on the nap nanny.  You can sit up in my lap so well if you are supported a little bit.  You hold your head up all by yourself now even though every now and then you have a little bobble, mostly when you are tired.

You are such a blessing and I love you very much!

May flowers

April Showers bring May Flowers!

I can't believe it's already May!  It seems like just yesterday I was taking pictures of my big belly and counting down the minutes until my sweet Addison was here with us.  She is growing so much...just like a weed! :)  I have already began to teach her all about flowers and planting this Spring.  Last year I was too sick and tired to do much in the yard.  I wondered how I would plant flowers and work in the yard with an infant this Spring.  But we have done a great job together.  Addie sits in her bouncer while I plant flowers and kill weeds.  While I'm watering the flowers I teach her everything I know about each one.  I have such wonderful memories watching my Mother make our yard so beautiful. I watched and was interested as much as a little girl would be at 7 or 8, but I didn't come value those memories until I was much older.  Our front yard was a masterpiece...She had tons of flowers lining the fence in our front yard.  I remember her teaching me to pinch off the dead marigold blooms and sprinkling the seeds around the flowerbed so new ones would grow.  Just a few weeks ago we were out front in my yard and there she was, teaching me to pinch off the marigold blooms and sprinkle them about!  I hope to give Addison the same gift my Mama gave me.

Not only are there tons of new plants and flowers growing in the yard, we have some other new things this year.  Last week...and I never thought I would be so happy to say this...we got a new barn and a privacy fence!  If you had told me when I was say 20 that I would be so excited about a barn and a fence, I would have laughed.  The old barn/shed that came with the house was not appealing to the eye at all...it was time for it to go.  We decided to get a privacy fence for several reasons and had just been putting it off. The old chain link fence worked fine for Kobe to stay safe, but it too wasn't too pretty.  It also didn't give us any privacy from the main street on the other side of the hay field that connects to our property.  The fence gives me a lot more peace about being outside with Addie this summer. We are excited about the warm weather and can't wait to get a little pool for Addie to play in.  We have decided to sell the wave runner.  We want to spend our free time with her and would rather not have someone watch her so we can go to the lake.  There is no sense in it staying in the garage so we'll find a new home for her.  We love it and hate to see it go, but we'll maybe buy a boat in a few years.  We are lake people and would love to spend the summers on the lake with our kiddos. :)