6 Months Old!

Friday the 13th, Adelaide turned 6 months old. I cannot believe I've been a mommy for 6 months already. It's been such a wonderful, hard, uplifting, and fun experience! Addy has many new tricks this month. She is getting to be so big and independent. She has an opinion about EVERYTHING! She's been pretty sick (constant diarrhea for 2 weeks and labs are in at the hospital, we're waiting to hear) for about four weeks now, but she still manages to put an encouraging smile and giggle in there for mommy. Mornings and whenever Daddy is home are her favorite times. Here she is smiling for daddy before trying peas for the first time.

Addy does all kinds of acrobatics in her Bumbo. She can just about get out. She arches her back and leans to the side, the back, and the front. She's about out of it! Her new thing is feet. She loves hers :)
Now as you watch this, make sure and remember that she LOVES peaches, pears, sweet potatoes, yogurt, mashed potatoes, jello, root beer...basically every food we've ever given her...


This morning Addy was being especially happy so I took that opportunity to get some of her tricks on camera. Here is her new face...sometimes it looks more like a grimace, but this is kind of it. I'm not sure why she does it (she uses to show multiple emotions). But I love it!
SO happy in the morning! You can see the spit on her face...that's not from drooling. It's from spitting. That's right. She sticks her tongue out and spits right at me!
She is going to be crawling any day! Here she is rocking back and forth on hands and knees.
Using her leg to scooch her. She gets pretty much wherever she wants to go!

Almost crawling again!

Today she discovered her humidifier. She wasn't a fan...the air blowing in her face combined with laying on the cookie sheet weren't her favorite. This is her pushing away from it. She got out of there fast!
Holding her own bottle. She now pushes our hands away. Her favorite thing is to suck for a second of two and then take it out and wave it around before squirting herself in the eye on the way back to her mouth.
There's our beautiful 6 month old! Shane, we love you and miss you! Work hard, pray harder!

A Very Happy Easter

Well, Easter at our house was a success! To get ready, Addy and I mowed the lawn on our riding lawn mower that we bought off the people we bought the house from. She liked it as long as it wasn't started. Eventually she even let me drive her a few feet haha.

Saturday, mommy and daddy bought Addy a real crib :) I figured that if we were going to use it for 8 kids, we should probably have an actual crib. Here she is while we are setting it up. She has gotten really good at feeding herself. Sometimes, she even one-hands it.
Daddy setting up the crib
All done! Thank you Grammy for the pooh bear stuff. She loves her stuffed animals. She wakes up playing with them and falls asleep on top of them.
First time in her new bed
Addy, meet Eeyore. Eeyore...you have a long life ahead of you :)
Pictures in Adelaide's Easter dress. Again, compliments of Grammy. (Although I did spring and buy that pretty headband she's wearing :)


I'm not sure what this face is. But this is Addy during our Easter egg hunt with Scott's family. His sisters Emily and Sandy and their families joined us. We had amazing food and a fun time. The kids enjoyed the nice weather outside. We ate outside and lounged outside. It was wonderful. Addy even got to take her naps! So we had a mostly happy baby (Poor girl's been sick. She's FINALLY coming out of it)

The nieces and nephews with Marco out hunting.
Shaylee bug with her spoils.

Addy rather enjoyed the plastic eggs. She kept getting mad because they would roll away from her on the floor.

As the prize for the magic egg, Kelton won a big bubble wand. All the kids got bubbles though and it was a great activity! Kept them entertained for hours. And the weather was perfect. Not too windy and just right for bubble catchin'!

We had a great Easter and are so thankful for the real reason we celebrate Easter. We know that Christ lived and died and that He lives again. I could not be more grateful for that.

Monday, the weather was REALLY nice, so daddy and Addy had some outside time. I looked out the window while I was cooking and saw this. I couldn't help but snap a shot.
Tuesday, Addy was feeling kinda down and out, so we just stayed inside most the day and played. She sure loves that microphone from Grammy. (And for those of you who saw the seahorse pictures, she is really starting to like that one too lol).
Well, Shane, we miss you and love you. The gospel is true. Work hard, pray harder!

March...in a Nutshell

Well, this month has been busy, as usual. Addy has grown and learned SO much! The picture below is of her after she scooched/rolled all the way from where we were to the opposite end of the room. It took her about 20 minutes. That was around the tenth of March. Now it takes her about...seconds! We got a railing for the drop from the living room into the entry way, and it was JUST IN TIME.

Addy has turned into quite the daddy's girl. Tonight she was leaning for him to take her and crying when I would take her back. Though it was sad, it was so good to see how much she loves her daddy. One of her favorite things is to ride on his shoulders. She can balance up there so good! He can lean all the way back and she just flexes her abs. She WILL NOT FALL.
We had a fire to burn some of our cardboard. Addy was fascinated. Here she is all bundled up and back inside. Look at those rosy cheeks!
Helping Daddy prepare his talk.
This girl is so bright and happy! Look at her just standing there giving us a look that we can't help but ooh and ahh at. And those eyes! She's so lucky to have gotten daddy's eyes.
Loving looking our our windows at the rain (I think it was raining, but maybe it was the random day that it snowed)
After Scott got back from L.A. for an audio training (it was the first time I was alone since we've been married since I didn't get to go to my family's), we took Addy to Idaho Falls to see the river. She was surrounded by ducks and geese, and all she would look at were the grass and dead leaves. The things she could touch and put in her mouth. She LOVES being outside already!
Pretty geese. They were pretty close, and Scott inched his way super close to a few.
My baby girl and her mommy. Obviously she's not that into me, but I sure love her!
Teething is a bummer. But she loved sucking and chewing on her tray haha. And it looked so cute!
Ok, check out this smile! Someone's excited for Easter! We bought her very own Easter basket. She was so excited she was practically jumping up and down in that bumbo!
Enjoying the Kmart ad. She loves anything colorful that crinkles.
Again, SUCH a daddy's girl. And it's a good thing because he loves the time with her more than she does! And as you can see, that's saying something.
For family home evening, Scott and I decided to make our own twist on a new favorite recipe. So we made the apple braid dough and then put pizza inside it! I guess lots of people already do this, but it was new to us and it was AMAZING! So here Scott is stuffing his. Yummy.
And me :)
While we were busy making dinner, Addy read her favorite book, the one that she can chew on that has crinkly pages. Again, anything that crinkles. As you can see her pants are getting too short. We went to the doc yesterday for her 6 month well check and she went from the 68th% in weight down the 58th% and up from the 60th% to the 70% in height...so now instead of chunky, she's thinning right out! Must be all the moving and raising up on hands and knees and scooching backwards. (Shane, just so you know, 50th percentile is average... :)
Braiding the bread
Mine, all done! It looked so pretty!
And baked! And we brushed them with garlic butter. Oh my gosh these were amazing!
Yummy goodness.
They were so good and Addy was so jealous that she decided to lick my plate afterwards. And ya know what? I let her.
Well, there it is. March in a nutshell. We are doing well and Addy's growing up so fast. We are so thankful for all of our blessings and our good friends that we've made here in Rexburg. Another highlight was finding out that our friends that moved away moved back and they are going to buy a house and stay here forever, just like us. :) Love ya Clark and Kelsie and Hallie :)

The gospel is true and it gets more and more true as I get smarter and smarter :P Shane, we love and miss you! Can't wait for you to meet your niece and come stay at our house. Work hard, pray harder.