3+1=4

I sure hope that Addy is better at holding her new sibling than she was at holding this doll! She kept throwing it off of the chair or bending it in half... :) She's excited, I hope, to have a new brother or sister in March. I'm excited too. They'll be 17 months apart. We are so thrilled to have child number 2 on the way...I only have to do this 6 more times!
Being pregnant again has reminded me that it's no fun. I hope that by the second trimester (only 4 weeks left) the morning sickness will be gone. I'm crossing my fingers and toes and arms!

Summer Lovin'

Well, Addy and I have been enjoying our time together so far. Here we are on graduation day. She's saying, "Good job mommy! Now you can pay attention to me!"
The morning after, Scott was taking out the garbage and I was in the bathroom. I turned around to find quite the spectacle. Apparently my baby wanted herself some goldfish! (Sorry about the icky nose...she's teething).
So I gave her some in her high chair :D She sure was a happy girl chompin' away on those crackers!
Two days after, again after a trip to the restroom, I found Addy in the kitchen with her new favorite thing that is not a toy that she plays with anyways.
And this morning, after yet ANOTHER trip to the bathroom, I found her here, stuck in her toy box. Do NOT ask me how she got in there, but she was stuck. Poor runny nosed girl!
As you can see, we are enjoying our summer. Scott's been around too, but when he's here I'm too busy enjoying our family time to run grab the camera. We took Addy to the water park here in town and she LOVED it. I held her on her tummy in the water and she was moving her arms and kicking her legs! I have a little swimmer! Hope you are all enjoying summer too!

It's Been Forever...Let's Hit the Highlights

Oh boy, it's been forever since I posted! I am going to start doing better now that I am officially GRADUATED! This semester has been super hard (what with 16 online credits) and I am so glad it's over. So I've decided just to hit some highlights of our July.

Addy LOVES being outside. Every second that she can. All day long. She loves the grass, doesn't mind crawling in it. She loves to eat our rocks and she can't just chew on one. No, she has to suck on one until all the dirty nasties are gone, then choose another to clean. It's gross. But ya know what? It's good for her.
Aunt Shauna came and stayed with us for a week. Addy took the opportunity to act up. She KNOWS she is NOT supposed to play with mommy's make up. Hence the guilty look.
Scott had to replace the blades and a brake in our mower. He's a stud.
We had a family reunion with my dad's side. Addy and her new uncle Jet loved going on walks in the stroller. And since all of her aunts and uncles were dying to take her on walks, Scott and I enjoyed a nice, relaxing time!
Addy LOVES water. I don't know how to describe how much she enjoys it. To give you an idea, this lake was so cold! I didn't even get all the way in the first day! And Addy was constantly in the water. She was so happy.
Danny is quite the kid. He is hilarious. And pretty cute, I think.
Addy and Grandma having fun.
Jet with his constant stream of drool. Poor kid cuttin' three or four molars at once!
I will always have a soft spot for this little boy. My Levi :)
Oh, and there is STILL sand stuck in the fabric of that bathing suit. She couldn't get enough!
The whole clan.
Addy turned 9 months old. I put her in a dress that I wore. She didn't want a picture.
Addy is getting so big! Not only does she enjoy mowing the lawn, but she stands by herself and gets into EVERYTHING! She is tall enough now that she can even reach the computer if she stands on her tippy toes (which she does. Like a ballerina...the very tips).
Not a fan of being put somewhere she can't get out of, so she doesn't love her little saucer, but she LOVES getting underneath it!
I don't have a picture, but I do have to share. Addy loves playing hide and seek. I hide behind chairs, couches, whatever and she comes and finds me, laughing the whole way. I am loving not having homework and actually having tons of time to play with her. It's amazing.

Groundhog in My Yard

The other day, I was looking outside over my kingdom and saw something that I thought was a stump in the middle of my yard. The second glance revealed a groundhog. In my yard. Awesome. I watched as it slowly edged its way toward the sprinkler. It wanted to get wet :) After it stayed for a while and I wasn't scared that it would be gone when I went to get my camera, I decided to snap some shots. This is from my fake deck (A metal thing they just set outside the back kitchen door lol).
I then decided I would just get as close as I could. I was so stoked when I got this shot! I was "so" close to it!
And then I just got closer...
and closer...
and closer until I was standing in the planter with the groundhog. It got up on it's hind legs, as pictured, and gave me a good stare down. Then I realized that if this thing bit me I might need stitches, and Scott was at work and Addy was getting ready to go down for her nap. That would have ruined my whole day. So I went back inside and smiled so big cuz I was SO brave :)

Happy Mothers Day and Happy 7 Months

Happy Mother's Day to me! As I told Scott yesterday in Pinnochio's voice: "I'm a real mom!" Being a mom is the best thing that has ever happened to me. When Scott and I got married, SO many people told us to wait at least a year to get pregnant. They said that we needed to take some time to get to know each other and get settled in before we complicated our lives with a baby. Well, we didn't listen and four months later we were pregnant. And I am SO glad. We didn't need to get to know each other. That's what you do when you're dating. We didn't need time to get settled. We didn't need to have time together (you do have 9 whole months after you get pregnant, you know). We didn't need to pray about whether or not to have a baby. I prayed about whether or not I wanted to have a baby with Scott the whole time we were dating. I knew I wanted him to father my children and he knew that I was gonna be the best mommy in the world. So we had Adelaide. It was the best choice we ever made.

Now off my soapbox. Addy turned 7 months old today. It's been the best 7 months of our lives, all three of us! Scott and I made a pad for Addy's high chair since we got it used and it didn't have one. This was prompted by her learning to get out of her bumbo. She loves sitting in the high chair!!! Here she is enjoying some toast :)
This morning Scott made me breakfast in bed. I was SO amazed when he brought it in! It looked better than any breakfast I've ever had! And it tasted better than any breakfast I've ever had. There's just something so yummy about food you didn't have to make! French toast complete with powdered sugar and warm syrup, yogurt to "cleanse the pallet," bacon, and vanilla milk. Holy yum. My husband loves me.
Then, we tried to get some cute pictures of our amazingly cute baby. Apparently she's not a performer. She kept making her ugly face. At least she has pretty eyes lol. Addy has learned so much in the last couple weeks. She can:

• Crawl (like, real crawling)
• Say her "b" sound
• Sit herself up
• Say "mamamamamama" and "mommmmm"
• Put herself to sleep and sleep through the night (I love dream-feeding, google it)
• Smile so big it melts your heart
• Frown so big it melts your heart
• Throw fits when other kids take her toys
• Grow teeth (She has one! I found it one day after telling a friend she didn't have any yet lol)

This is her old man face. I'm not sure why she makes it...but I have seen her dad make it before. :)

I was trying to get her to smile. As you can tell by her face (feel free to click on it and blow it up because you don't want to miss it) she was so not into it.

The biggest smile we've seen all day...it was so weird.

Then, we decided to turn on the sprinkler and see what she'd do. It was the funniest thing I've ever seen. She would start to get sprinkled and then stop and then decide that she could handle it so she'd go farther in. Then she'd get wetter and stop again to reevaluate. And then she'd keep going. These pictures are hilarious. Don't judge us. It's going to look like we're bad parents (drop the camera and pick up your baby you heartless people) but don't be fooled. She has her agency. She crawled in. We just enjoyed watching :)















After all was said and done and I couldn't take it anymore we picked her up. She stopped crying right away. And loved playing on the outskirts of the sprinkler :)
Well, that's all :) Oh wait! No it's not! I got to talk to my brother on the phone. Well, kind of. He got to Skype my mom and they put me on speaker so that we could hear each other. It was amazing. I love hearing him say my name so excited :) He told me he loved me (and I like to hear that too) and that he couldn't wait to be a dad. Then he kind of scolded me (nicely mind you) by saying "And keep up with your blog). So I guess he does read it :P Well Shane, here you go! Work hard, pray harder! I love you! PS You sound like you're reading a speech when you speak English. Scott and I had a laugh. We love you!