18/19 Months

Soo, I had big plans to do an 18 month blog, but the time got away from me and I realized that she is now 19 months.  So I will try to talk about them seperately.

18 Months

It was Christmas Eve on Addisons 18 month birthday, kind of hard to forget your childs 1/2 year birthday when it lands so close to a holiday...lol!  We were able to be in NY with my family for the holidays and we had a wonderful time, always goes by way to fast.  Addison even got to go out and go sleeding for her first time, Grandpa took her out to enjoy the snow.

Addison weighed in at exactly 24lbs for 18 months (January 6).  Our pediatrician said she is doing great and meeting all her milestones.  She is full of energy and life, a climber for sure, I think I spend all day pulling her down off the table or anything else she can climb.  YES, she figured out how to climb her changing table... couldnt believe it and almost had a heart attack the first time I came in and say her standing up there... ok still do, everytime I find her up there. Still babbling away, like she wants to talk, but just doesnt.  I really think she knows a lot more than she is willing to say.  She can clearly understand everything I am saying or asking her to do... I wouldnt say there are any "NEW" words, however we have noticed that she refers to herself as a baby and whenever she does say baby, she whispers it...soo funny!!   She is my little helper for sure, helping me unload the dishwasher, help me carry the bags in or my purse, help me unload the cart at the grocery store, get her shoes, hat and coat and bring them to me when its time to go.  She has figured out how to blow kisses and she understands that when we pray we hold hands and she will reach out to hold your hand, when you say "lets pray."  She loves to twirl around until your disey.  She loves it if you do it to her, she will actually lay back as your twirling and close her eyes.. so fearless!!  But she also twirls herself and just laughs and laughs... its soo funny to watch.  She also just loves to run around the house with her eyes closed...silly girl!!  She runs into everything, but just keeps going!!  She has really mastered her spoon and fork and she can now even eat cereal with milk in it with her spoon.  Yes, we still sometimes make a mess, but she is doing soo well, I hardly even have to help her.  She has started to learn what time outs are and you can now, place her in the seat and she understands she has to stay there for minute.. yes she sometimes gets up, but she undesrstands that when she is bad, there is a time-out.  She is definitly a very strong-willed, determined little girl, however she is my snuggler for sureandloves to be held.  So very curious and yet so smart at how quickly she picks up on things.  A big step we did was flip around her car seat at her 18 month mark, I struggled with this change with all the advisories out there, but she seems to be a lot happier in the car now that she can see us and my pediatrian said she meets the weight limit and we are tottally OK to flip her around.

19 Months

This last month has been a very long month and alot of changes and growing.  Addison started off the month in the hospital for vomitting and so lathargic we thought we were losing her, she kept having these spasms that shook her body, we wondered if she was having seizures...so scary.  Luckily it was just a fever, causing her to get cold and then shake and the vomitting does make children lathargic.  No sooner did we get past that, when we were informed our daycare would be letting Addison go.  No need to go into detail, but this shook our world.  Thankfully Grandma made the trip down to be with Addison and to help us look for another daycare provider for our sweet girl.  Grandma stayed with us for about 8 days and luckily by the time she left, God had answered our prayers. Addison spent her last week at her daycare, that she has been at since she was 3 and half months old and on Thursday, woke up to a vomitting virus that knocked her out all weekend.  I would have to say that 2012, has been a very rough year so far and we are still adjusting.  First week at her new day care, has been hard, but I know with time it will get better. Addison cried so hard on Wednesday when I had to leave in the AM, I almost started crying with her and walked out of that hosue and quit my job.  She has never cried like this, not even for church Nursery and It broke my heart to leave her.  Thankfully she did calm down and was off playing by the time I walked out.  "Why is Change sooo HARD!!!"  Hopefully week 2 will be better!!

With all that said, Addison learned how to climb up and down her highchair while Grandma was here.  She is currently cutting her cannine teeth on the top, so she will soon have a mouth full of teeth up there.  She has finally figured out how to say "NO" except that "NO" in her mind means "YES".  Its soo funny.. "Addison are you Hungry?"  No... "Addison do you want to take a bath?" No...lol.. everything is "NO"  when she clearly means "YES." 

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She has figured out how to put her hat on herself. Yes, it ends up being a little lopsided, but its super cute!  She has even attempted to put on her own shoes. She will now put our shoes on and try to walk in them.. soo funny!!  She has learned to sing with you the ABCs...  I definitly think she is saying some of the letters and she does this thing where she sways back and forth and tilts her head from side to side, when she sings it with you.. its soo cute.  She can also count 1, 2, 3... such a smart little girl.  She learned how to say "Grandma" while my mom was here... so truly special!!  She has also, finally after months of showing her, learned the arm movements to the "Itsy Bitsy Spider"  LOVE THIS!!  Another funny thing is she will now, if she gets in trouble sit herself in time-out, without you telling her to sit in time-out... its soo funny!!  Things that you wouldnt necessarily put her in time-out for, she will go sit in the time out spot. She really is such a smart little girl... Glad she got her daddy and Grandpas jeans!!  However, I would have to say, she is a very good mix of both Stephen and I, besides looking 100% like Stephen.  On a side note -her hair has really started to come in this month.. she now wakes up and the back of her head, hair is sticking up everywhere.  I have even had to wet it a couple of days to get it to lay flat. I do think its going to have some curl, bc its definitley wispy.  Soon I will be able to put little barets in her hair and they will stay!!

She has has finally picked a "lovey" Out of all her options, she has attached herself to a purple blanket that my mom made.  That blanket is a favorite for sure and seems to always find its way outside her crib and if she doesnt bring it out with her in the AM or after nap and she cant seem to reach through the crib to get it, there is some serious crying involved.  She has also recently become very attached to her paci, throwing major fits if she cant have it.  Up until a month ago, the paci was used only at naptimes and bedtime.  When she was really little she used alot more, even in the car.  But, as she got older and not wanting her to be dependant on it, I thought it best to only be used during sleeping times.  We did decide to use it a little more over Christmas this year, due to late nights and nap times being pushed around, however recently it has become an issue.  Throwing such major temper tantrums.  The desire for the paci also started around the time that she attached herself to her blanket and Im starting to think its all the change.  I think she is dealing with a little bit of insecurities and feeling unsure and its something constant.  Hopefully in another month, she will start adjusting.... my poor sweet girl!!

Her imagination has really come out recently. Yes, she does mimick, but now she does things, that we have shown her all the time.  I can look into her room and can see her stirring her tea and then fake drinking it, fake eating her food, sprinkling her cupcakes with fake sprinkles. Just soo sweet. I even noticed yesterday her putting some of her lego pieces together!!  I couldnt believe it, I have showed her so many times and she never does it!! Still loves to look at books and be read too, and also loves to color even though, she likes to eat the crayons and I think she has broken all of them in half.  She can even now ride her toy horse, she will drag it out from her bedroom and climb up onto it and just ride it... she loves it!!  A year ago, she received it and she wasnt even sitting up yet and now my sweet child plays with it and can climb up and off it and can swing it back and forth!!  She is just getting soo big, where has the time gone!!  We are so truly blessed and we serve an AMAZING GOD that has made my dreams come true!!  May I never forget!!

16/17 Months

These last 2months have flown by and once again, Im realizing that I have not stayed up on blogging.

Our sweet little girl is so full of life, exploring everything around her, little adventurer.. fearless, She was actually running around the other night with this big plastic bucket over her head...just laughing away, while she was crashing into walls.  She has just filled our lives with so much laughter and amusement as she explores and tries new things.  She now wave all the time when you say bye bye, even waving to GA whenever we leave the house.  She is also trying to wink at us, not necessarily winking, bc that would be one eye, but she squints both eyes and its super cute! She has also finially figured out that she must liftt her feet up in order for us to push her around the house on her little car and she has also figured out that she can get around on her car, by using her feet to push herself around.  She can now turn her toys around on her own.  She used to just crash her toys into the walls and then we would have to go turn them around for her, but she now knows how to turn them around herself and keep going.  She has recently started spinning..lol.. she will spin and spin and then fall over soo dizzy, but just laughing and geting up and doing it all over again! its soo funny!

She is starting to say more words.  Mommy, dada, puppy, baby, kitty, tickle tickle, GA, Peas (for please) hey,  I wouldnt say she is clearly talking as much as I thought she would be by now, but she is getting there and you can tell she is really studying what you are saying.  She does do a lot of babbling, would LOVE to know what she is talking about.

She loves girl things...lol!  Jewelry is such a fascination to her and she thinks she is HOT stuff when she wears it!  She has 2 beaded necklaces that my mom gave her, she wears them ALL DAY!!! Such a little princess! She will also go and find my makeup bag and use my blush brush and push it on her cheeks, she then takes the end of my mascare and rub it on her lips like lip gloss!!  Its soo cute and funny to watch!  She really is our little fearless girl, climbing up on everything, going down the slide on her own, head first... definitly at times, makes my heart race... 

She is eating really good, basically eating whatever we eat,  drinking her milk out of her sippy, still using a bottle for AM and PM milk, but she is finally doing so much better with her sippy.  Still mastering her fork and spoon, but she is doing soo good with them.  We recenlty have been having cereal with milk and she is doing such a good job... soo proud of her!  She now has 4 bottom teeth, 4 top teeth and all 4 of her back teeth have come in.. just a mouth full of teeth!  She sTill loves to read and look at books, puzzels are a huge fascination, she is finally starting to be able to match up the puzzle piece with the picture on the board!  We have been working really hard on it and I felt soo proud to see her show me where each piece goes!

She is our little helper!  She loves to help unload the dishwasher,  carry my bags, get me my keys, anyway to help us... such a sweet girl.  She loves to share, you might not always want what she wants to share.  Another thing that is fascinating... if you need to put her coat on her or if you are going to give her a snack, she will immediatly sit down and wait for you to give it to her or put it on her.... must have picked this up from daycare. She now enjoys having her picture taken - you say go sit next to GA for your picture she will run over, sit down and then as soon as you take the picture, she will get up, run over and sit down in your lap bc she wants you to show her the picture...lol... just soo funny!

More and more Addison is growing into a toddler and there are days that I feel like where has the time gone, where is my little baby!  But my baby is still there, still needing me for hugs and cuddles, even giveing us hugs and kisses back, that melt my heart!

14/15 Months old

So, I have been a little bad with Blogging lately.. I guess we have just had a lot going on recently, and....  In the last 2 months, there have been so many changes and they all have happend so quickly that its almost hard to remember them all... let alone blog about them all.

Our little girl is growing in leaps and bounds, not in size ...lol..  (1 month ago weighed in at 20lbs. 3oz) but in her knowledge  She is such a "SMART" little girl... It is amazing how much she picks up on...  You can now say to her "Addison lets go change your diaper" or "Addison lets go take a bath"  or "Addison can you put this back please" or "Go get Kitty"  She compmletely understands everything you are saying form going to her changing table and reaching up when its time to changer her diaper, or going and getting her towel and bringing it to you for bathtime.  Its amazing to me how much she understands, yet she cant talk to you.  YES, we have our words, Baba for bath, Kitty for her loved stuffed animal, Hey, Tickle, Dada... (which she now seens to associate all guys as DaDa.. Poor Stephen, he is not thrilled with this)  For the most part though.. you can talk to her and even though she cant talk back, she understands completley what you are saying and will go do it or get you what you are asking for.  She has also turned into such a little "Helper"  from helping you put things away, to carrying bags or wanting to help you vacuum!  Cracks me up!

We have offiically gone to one nap.  So all our nap issues were just resolved with 1 nap.  Started moving her into 1 nap about 2 weeks after she turned 14 months... YES.. on occasion we have days where we take an AM nap.. but they are becoming rarer and rarer!  We now go down right around 1 and usually sleep until 330ish.. We enjoy reading boks before naptime in the rocking chair and I think the rocking chair has become her favorite place... When I cant find her... she is almost alwalys sitting in the chair looking at books!!  ITs just soo sweet to see her enjoy to read or look at the picutures. We now visit the library and will come back and just sit and read our books! 

She has now cut her 4 top front teeth and recently 1 top back molar.... she officially now has 7 teeth and I think she might be cutting her other side top back molar.. but not yet. 

Right at 14months, we started working with Addison on using a fork and spoon for eating.  The begging was a little rough. more play time than eating, but now she has really started to mater them and is doing a GREAT job.  Such a big girl!

Our Days are spent, going on walks around the block, getting together with friends, reading stories, going to the PARK, helping Mommy clean, singing songs and doing the handmotions, Tickle time, plyaying with our puzzels and riding our car up and down the hallway, (She is finally now using her legs to make her car move, rather than Mommy pushing her down the hallway, I still do on occasion, for fun).  Addison has turned into my little fish... she now will flip herslef over the in the bathtub and basically swim in there.. its so cute to watch and she loves it... bathtime is definitly a highlight! 

Her personality is really coming out.. She is definitely very STRONG WILLED!  Unfortunatly, it was almost inevitable that she would be strong willed, but on the positive side of being strong willed, it definitly helps you know what she wants... lol!  But, she is a ton of fun, laughing, jabbering and just being silly.  She is a climber for sure.. almost fearless, yet at the sametime still very shy and very "Hold me, Hold me, Hold me"!  She is definitly my little cuddler for sure.... I definilty think the shy and cuddler comes from Stephen, becasue I think I was ALOT more independant as a child and I dont think I was a big cuddler from what my Mom tells me. 

The greatest thing that happend this past month, was to start receiving hugs when I drop her off at daycare.. just melts my heart when she runs over to give me a hug goodbye!  Moments I will cherish forever and Moments you truly live for!

My toddler!

Crazy to think that Addison is a year old!  No more little baby, but a child that is walking.... no RUNNING!  Non stop playing, laughing, exploring, not wanting to miss out on anything. 

This past month has been full of so many surprises, didnt realize how much your child could learn in 1 month!!  This has definitly been a Developmental month.. a month where Addison is connecting the dots and it has been so much fun to watch her learn and explore!

We started this past month, visiting in NY for 10 days and we had soo much fun.  Our days were spent at Great Grandma and Great Grandpas house swimming, playing, eating the sand... such a fun time to be with Grandma and Grandpa Nelson.  Our vacation definitly wore her out and she slept awesome. 

Back to reality and life.. it took Addison about a week to re-adjust, but thats what vacation is, FUN and not always staying right on schedule. (haha, yes that comment is more for me, as Im such a schedule person and yes, I think this happend once I had Addison...)  Where to even begin on all that Addison has learned this month....

   1.  She now waves, you will say bye bye and she will actually wave at you.   She has been waving off and on prior to a year, but now you can say "Wave, bye bye" and she does it (for the most part).  She will even says BYE!!!!  not very often, but every once in a while she will say it.
   2.  She has finally figured out, not only do we take the toys out of the basket, but we put them back, she first did this in NY and now she does it all the time, "Help mommy put these toys away"  and she immediatly starts helping... soo cute.  I will pull out all her toys for bathtime and within minutes she will  have put them all away... I think she then realizes.. I dont have any toys left to play with  and then out they come.. lol! 
   3.  We have this toy that is like a pillar and has 4 stars that start off big and get smaller, the point is to stack them on top of eachother on this pillar.   Well, she has finally figured out, not only how to take them off, but how to put them on, lol... not always in the right order, but its a start!!
   4.  Our stuffed animals are talked to now, "Hi, Hi, Hi, HEY!!  HEY!!!  sooo cute to listen to her talk to them.  Almost like she thinks they will talk back.
   5.  She knows what the kitty says... You cant say... "What does the kitty say and she will answer you butthe girl that watches Addison has a cat and the cat always meows, so Addison now will meow when she sees the cat... I havent actually heard her say it, but Jen says its quite humorous to hear!

   6.  Well... she has finally learned how to climb up on our furniture... YES, chairs, couch ect... not the bed, as it is still a little high, but I think we spend all day.. up, down.. up, down.  This starts off strong and luckily our teaching her how to get down, has paid off.   BUT after a while she gets tired, now, NOT tired of WANTING To get up on the furniture, but tired of pulling herself up there, which results in getting very upset and crying and yelling involved.  Quite funny, to watch, but not soo funny for her. 
   7.  She has really discoverd GA, whenever GA comes in from outside she gets a Treat!  Well, Addison now wants to give GA her treat.  As soon as she hears GA come in, she immediatlly runs over to where teh treats are and stands there looking up at them....so cute!  I will hand ADdison GAs treat and she will give it to GA.. haha.. sometimes!  I think its a battle in her mind to hand it over...lol!  She will also now, as soon as we get home, immdiatly run to where we keep GA during the days that I work.. its just soo sweet to see her so excited to see GA. 

This past month, we moved up to the next stage car seat... such a BIG girl in her chair and I think In a lot of ways she seems a lot happier, as she has more room to move around and she sits a little higher, making it easier to see outside!!  She recently popped another tooth, the top right fang, didnt even know it was possible to pop that one, before the top middle... poor thing, she is going to have a FANG!...lol.. hopefully the middle two will come in soon.  She is just so full of energy.. going.. going.. going... soo fearful she might miss out on something, yet shy at the same time, is that even possible!  So curious over everything.. LOVES puzzles and books, I wouldnt say she is the best at being read too, but she will sit there and look through them over and over. 

Eating has been going really well and even adapting to milk has gone over really smoothly... still trying to figure out napping.  We are currently in the transition of going to 1 nap, but still 2 naps if we find that she needs it.  This has been a very difficult transition, but due to the fact that Addison has really started to fight naps ever since we got back from NY, I feel that we will take one day at a time, but slowly start transitioning to 1 nap... lol.... OH if only children could come with a manual.  lol!  I guess we will figure it all out... In the meantime, just enjoying every moment with our little girl!

ONE YEAR!!

A YEAR!!  Is it possible!  Our baby is a a toddler!  So much has happened in the last month, that Its almost hard to remember it all...

Addison Celebrated her first Birthday at Alexander Park here in PA, with many close family and friends, it was a Special time for us and for her.  She LOVED her cupcake and we couldnt keep her off the slide!  She recieved alot of clothes and some fun toys.. a Truly SPECIAL day!!

Addison had her 12 month appointment and now weights in at 19lbs 8oz .. not that big, but big enought that I feel it.. luckily she can walk.  I started to give her milk 2 weeks prior to her Birthday to help her start tranisitiong fully into it and I would say in the last 2 weeks (after her Birthday) she has really transitioned well at this point. I havebeen able to move the 1:30PM bottle to milk then the 10:30AM and now the 5PM to milk without any major problems. Still drinking formula for AM and bedtime bottle, but we are slowly getting away from formula.  WE are Still having to drink alot of the Milk out of the bottle, as she is having a hard time adjusting to drinking milk out of a sippy, but we are getting there.  She has basicallly moved to big people food, hardly taking jar food, as I think she associates the jar food as "Baby food" and then refuses it.  Such a Stinker!!  Still babbling away... she definilty has A LOT to say... still no words other than "MAMA" and "DADA", sometimes it sounds like she says words, but nothing is clear yet.  She is still shy at first, but luckily warms up pretty quickly!  She has now fully mastered walking and she now walks a TON or should I say RUNs a TON!!  Haha!  She can definitly move fast, especially when she has something shes not supposed to have.  Just FULL OF IT!!  LOL!

I would say our biggest challenge this last month, was, it was litterally one day to the next, that Addison woke up one day and I was like " I no longer want you to rock me to sleep for my NAPS"  I have always rocked Addison before all naps and bedtime.  Most of the time, I would only have to rock for a few mins and she would be down for the count, but it was litterally like a light switch and she REFUSED to go to sleep..... So needless to say, This was and has been a very difficult challenge for me.  I felt at first, like She doesnt need me anymore and How will she ever go to sleep without being rocked, but this is an important lesson to be learned for her, as I was reminded, DO I REALLY WANT TO BE ROCKING AT 2 and 3 when she can talk back to me, or kick and scream...,.. Sooo, That first weekend, I still tried to rock, but to no avail, I was getting frustrated and someone would just NOT go to sleep.   So the next weekend I caved.. no more rocking!!  Soo now its quiet time, light rocking.. snuggling with Mommy and with Bear-Bear and then off to bed we go.  I AM still able to rock for bedtime and she will almost always pass out in my arms, but NAPTIME - NO rocking to sleep.  This WAS always something I enjoyed, quiet time with Addison before she headed off to sleep and we still have that.... just different.    She is doing so much better too with going down on her own, that first weekend did not go to HOT, but slowly she has figured it out and for the most part will pass out pretty quickly once in there.  I can say we do have our days of non-stop chatter that then turns into yelling and sometimes tears... but I just go back in, give her her and Bear-Bear, lay her blanket back over, rub her back and slowly walk out.

ALL in ALL Our little girl has just completed our lives!  She has brought so much laughter and joy.  So full of life and energy, yes very full of it, but never a DULL moment!  Soo excited to see whats to come in this next year!

Steps...

11 Months!  Last year at this time I was pregnant....PREGNANT! and now our little peanut is crawling, walking, babbling, eating on her own.. Where did the time go..  This past month has been filled with fun new memories that Stephen and I will remember always.  Addison has discovered so many new things... must be Spring in the AIR, our child is blossoming!

SO the BIG News is our little girl is now, WALKING!! 2 weeks before she turned 11 months, she took steps..and now its walking... her still major transportation is crawling.. but she enjoys walking and walks any chance she can get! To add to the walking, Addison also knows how to climb stairs!  Not sure how she figured it out, considering we don't have stairs and our daycare has stairs in her basement - leading down to the family room, but that room is off limits to her daycare children.  Somehow, though she figured it out and she will go up them over and over, obviously has not figured out how to go down steps, so you have to be with her at all times, but she is a master at them... WHO KNEW!!  HAHA!   Our OTHER BIG News is she cut her 2 bottom teeth!  YUP!  She finally now has teeth!

We have really started to notice Addison's personality this past month.  She is a very happy child, however very SHY!  It takes a good bit for her to open up, not that immediate smiles upon greeting NEW people, has to almost investigate you before she will open up and be friendly, but .. haha we have discovered that she likes boys/guys!  Poor Dad, is not soo thrilled!   She definitely has alot of Stephen in her when it comes to being shy and not willing to just go to anyone.  She definitely is Strong willed though and unfortunately that comes from both of us!! 

She has become so full of energy and exploring everything around her, recently discovering a toy, that was given to her by my parents at Christmas, MOVES!  Yes, she has always played with it, but now she will push it up and down our hallways, laughing and yelling along her way, over and over.  The only frustrating part for her and for us.. haha, is that she hasnt figured out how to turn it around, so when she gets to the end of the hallway or to the table, she ends up yelling until we turn her around.  She is quite speedy at this and at times its almost hard for us to keep with her, before she gets to the end to turn around!  HAHA, It has definitely added to making her legs stronger though, for walking!.

Most Toys seem in a way, to be a thing of the
past and anything that she cant have seems to be what she wants!  VERY STRONG WILLED, getting very upset when you take it away from her, she loves to pull everything off the nightstands or off the little table by the front door!  OVER an OVER she does this... almost like its a game! Another thing we have noticed is her love to climb, not only steps, but anything that she can, resulting in lowering her bed to the bottom position. Every time I turn around she is trying to climb something!!  Crazy girl!!  We have Also moved up to taking a bath in the bathtub, rather than her little bathtub- making the clean up easier, except that she wants to stand up in the tub, making Mommy very nervous!  She also has discovered showers and LOVES them! Very fascinated by the water coming out..

 With Flowers in bloom we spend a lot of time out side, so Mommy can pull weeds haha,  leave it to Addison to discover the Tan Bark... and apparently Tan Bark tastes very good!!  What is is with everything always going into the mouth... yuck!    

Our days are mostly spent by an early morning stroll and then after our AM nap and then.. POOL time.. haha.. Yes, I know, she just wouldn't be my daughter if we didn't get in some pool time!!  She definitely likes her water to be warm though, so we have to fill it up before AM nap-time, so its warm by the time she gets up .. such a little stinker. However, she is starting to get a nice tan, kind of hard though, when your wearing 50!!!  Haha!  We also still spend a lot

EATING!!  Sometimes I think I could talk about eating and that would be my only BLOG!  We have discovered that if you give Addison a bottle in the car or during our walk, there is no fight and she will drink it all on her own, so AM bottle is usually given during a morning stroll and dinner bottle is usually given on our ride home from daycare.  No fight, is what I am all about.  She has been eating 3 meals now for 2 months, however this last month, Addison decided that pureed food is beneath her!  No JOKE!   As you bring the spoon to her mouth, she will immediately move her head back and investigate what you have on the spoon and then decide from there if she wants it or not!  If its a NO, she will immediately turn her head and purse her lips shut!  This has made mealtime very interesting... we have tried LOTS of new FOODs this month or the foods that we pureed have turned into pieces she can pick up!  I have found though, that if you give her solid foods first  that she can pick up on her own, then she will sometimes take the pureed food out of the jar.  I am finding though that solid foods and lack of taking pureed foods she is not filling up as much, she is not getting that full, causing her formula intake to recently increase in the last month.  Soo.. funny that 2 months before she turns a year she has finally started to drink her formula and in larger quantities!!  CRAZY!!   (definitly leaves me a little worried about the transition to WHOLE milk and if it will be able to fill her the way formula does)  I think the teeth have definitely helped in her desire to take solids and we have also noticed that if WE are eating something, SHE WANTS IT... haha.. or at least wants to TRY it!!    This last month, we have tried, Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Corn, Watermelon, Toast, Cheerios, Animal Cracker, Pretzels, Pasta and Cottage Cheese.   

All in all this last month was very exciting for us... such special memories, my very first Mothers Day.. never thought this day would happen to me!  I received 2 beautiful cards.. that I will cherish ALWAYS!! Addison is walking, she cut some teeth and in 1 month we will Celebrate a YEAR!!!  Soo truly BLESSED!!!!

10 MONTHS

WOW!  10 Months!!! Just seems soo old!! to think that in 2 more months, Addison will be ONE!!!!!  Is that even possible!!!  I have been reminded a lot lately, of just last year at this time, I was in the last stage of my pregnancy and now I have a crawling, babbling child!!

I would definitely have to say this last month was a LONG month.. 3 weeks of it Addison was sick.. making for very long days.  She came down with the cold on her 9 month Birthday and had a miserable runny nose/and sporadic coughing for 5 days.. resulting in me taking off work and taking her to the DR just to make sure no infection had set in.... poor thing dropped half a pound.  Luckily no Pneumonia or Ear infection, just BAD cold. Luckily it passed and I though we were over it, only for a cough to settle in 3 days after the cold passed.. the Cough was worse then the cold... she would get in such horrible coughing fits..poor body shaking from the coughing!! When that finally passed, I thought we were good.. and sure enough 4 days later the runny nose came back and this time.. I GOT IT along with her!!  The 2 of us were quite a pair, but luckily hers passed pretty quickly and the last week of 9 months, she was able to enjoy it and not be sick!!! 

Our BIG Milestone this month!  right after Addison turned 9 months, she figured out how to pick up her sippy cup, tip it back and drink out of it!  2 weeks later she figured out how to pick up her bottle and she can now officially feed herself her bottle.  YES! we still have to redirect her and remind her that its time to eat, even still at times having to feed her part of the bottle, but for the most part, she has mastered it and is on her way!  Making feeding timess sooo much easier and less of a fight!

On a Interesting note - Addison has decided with all this crawling around- and very FAST crawler I might add, that she now needs to bring along a toy or bib with her as she crawls around the house... soo funny!  She also has discovered with all this crawling around, that she likes to crawl under things and through tight spots (ie: chair and wall) which she has now found herself stuck in places... and NOT very happy about it!!  LOL!!  Another new adventure.. she LOVES to bang things together! either her toy, bib or whatever she brought with her on her crawl around the house, onto the wall/chair/nightstand or her other toys or just two toys together..like they are cymbals!  Our little adventurer has fully mastered crawling and walking/cruising around the house and every day gets braver and braver at standing for longer periods of times without holding onto anything for support!  Which at times can be very scary for me, as she know wants to STAND in the Bathtub!..just a little slippery!!  She loves to walk holding your hands and we are tying to walk only holding one hand.. but its pretty hard for her!  She still loves to clap at everything exciting!.  She has recently discovered ournight-stands in our room and every time we turn around she is pulling everything off the shelves or off the top.She has this fixation with sucking on our shoes... soo, we can never leave our shoes laying around or she WILL find them and suck on them.... soo gross! She has also discovered GA's WATER bowl.. Yes, I have found her several times now, sitting in a pool of water from her tipping it over!!  She loves walks and playing outside and now with it being warmer we try to get out at least once a day... if its not raining!  (I think it rained all April).  She has recently discovered Pop-up books and will flip through them over and over, I think there was one day I read a book over and over cause she wanted to see the things pop up at her.  She also still loves anything that makes noise, loves GA, laughing hysterically at her and loves to look at herself in the mirror... silly girl..! 

She now knows what NO means!  So, you tell her No, she will stop and look at you and start babbling (like she is talking back at you) and then when she thinks you aren't looking will go back at the thing you just told her NO to!  Little Stinker!! You then repeat No and she will immediately stop or let go or THROW the object and turn and babble at you!  We definitely have a very strong willed child!  No!! is NOT something she wants to hear and she definitely does not like it if you take something from her that she cant have or you remove her from a situation that she shouldn't be in!!  SCREAMS!!!  She must get this strong willed personality from her FATHER!! LOL! 

She has tried several new foods this month Turkey, Zucchini, Broccoli, Asparagus, Grapes, Kiwi, Plums and cheddar cheese.  We are trying more and more foods that require her to pick them and up and we are moving forward with lots of stage 3 foods to help her adjust to chunkier foods.  We have now added in Lunch, so 3 meals a day - Breakfast - cereal, yogurt and fruit/fruit chunks and apple juice.  Lunch- yogurt - veggie and a fruit with some more apple juice and finally Dinner - cereal, protein and a veggie and sometimes fruit chunks for desert with water in our sippy cup.  We love our puffs and are slowly mastering yogurt melts.  Our BIG food adventure was a Popsicle, bought by GRANDPA and we LOVED it!  The only thing she didn't like was HOW cold it was when she held it.. resulting in a lot frustration until, we wrapped paper around the bottom. lol!

I cant believe how big our little girl is getting ....