Wednesday, July 29, 2009

4 Month Update







I have found that since having Addison is weird how time registers in your head. I think it is crazy that Addison is already 4 months old but then again I can't remember life without our beautiful baby. It's like time is flying by but then you take a step back and I am like, really it has only been 4 months? We had Addison's 4 month dr. apt today and she did wonderful as usual. She is 25.75 inches long (grown 7 inches since birth!) and that puts her in the 95th percentile for length. She was 13lbs 4ozs which puts her in the 50th percentile (better than less than 5th percentile like she was at 2 months). So basically we have a long, skinny, perfect peanut! We discussed with our doctor Addison's separation anxiety and the doctor did confirm that she was young to be doing that but she has seen babies as young as Addison do it before (normal age is 6-9 months old) and we also discussed Addison's refusal of the bottle and solid food (normal for exclusively breastfed babies). The bottom line is she told us we have a strong willed (bull-headed) "high maintenance" little girl on our hands! Good thing is she will be a leader and not a follower when older, bad thing is we get to struggle with her while she is a baby and can't communicate with us! We are starting baby sign language this month and we are very excited about that! All in all we are learning more and more with each passing day and loving her more and more with each passing second!

Monday, July 27, 2009

Packed with Power


Addison and I had a bit of a long night last night. Last Saturday Addison slept 9 straight hours, Sunday she slept 6.5 straight hours. Great I know! Starting a week ago today she decided she wants to wake up every 3 hours and she does it like clock work every night since! Lucky me. I have decided that I am going to try and not feed her at the first awakening to try and train her to not wake up then. Well last night it did not go so well. Needless to say I was very tired this morning. We were playing on the computer for a quick minute before we went to run some errands for daddy and I had just finished feeding her (did I mention she refuses a bottle now too..again lucky me!!!) when I simultaneously felt a gush of air, heard a loud rumble and felt a warm runny wet sensation all down my inner thigh and lap. Oh yes, Addison completely blew out her diaper all over me! What a wonderful morning surprise :)! It really is amazing how much power that little tushy packs! We still love her though and she gives us lots of good storied for future embarrassment.

What is that Smell?

Starting on Wednesday last week Charles and I noticed a faint smell in our house. Everyday it kept getting stronger and stronger. Friday we emptied all the garbage cans in the house and the diaper genie to see if it was the garbage. It wasn't. With the smell still in the house and Charles out of town at the hunting camp I went on a mission to find the stench. Charles swore it was a dirty diaper left somewhere in the house. Most moms can agree we don't just change our babies bottoms anywhere...like on the kitchen counter...we typically use the changing table that we paid good money for in the nursery for this kind of thing!!! So I gave him the benefit of the doubt and thought that maybe I left one in my diaper bag from changing Addison while out in public and just maybe Tootsie got a hold of it. I smelled it the strongest when at the kitchen sink so I poured bleach, vinegar and a lemon down the disposal. The smell was STILL there! I started thinking maybe I spilled milk on the counter and it is just sitting somewhere growing funk. But I keep a very clean house and figured that couldn't be it! I started smelling the bottles of soap near the sink and noticed Charles's protein shake container. Oh yes you guessed it! Four day old protein shake was the culprit. My mom was here when I found it and she was going to be the nice mother-in-law and clean it for Charles since I was not going to be the nice wife. I just assumed we would throw anything away that smelled that foul! Well when my mom unscrewed the top low and behold it was full of maggots! YES! Maggots!!! It was absolutely disgusting!!!!
Of course when I told Charles what the smell came from he totally blamed it on me for not washing out his cup quick enough!!!! Men.

We are blessed with a Beautiful Daughter!







Monday, July 13, 2009







A day at the pool!







We took Addison to my parent's pool on Sunday for a full day of being in the sun! Addison loved the pool again. She just LOVES being outside. Then when we took her clothes off she was in naked baby heaven!!!!! The pictures are too cute for words.

Cousin Caleb's visit!!!

Caleb tried to teach Addison
how to crawl but she just got frustrated.
She does enjoy tummy time now that she can
lift her arms and head off the ground.
Addison did enjoy watching Caleb move
all around and Caleb just wanted to touch
Addison. It was fun watching them together.
















4th of July




We went to Jacksonville to celebrate Pa's birthday and to go to Adam & Charlotte's 4th of July BBQ. We took Addy to the beach again to see if she would like it. She at least stayed awake for this visit. I wouldn't say she loved it but she did not hate it. She liked having her feet in the water until daddy let a wave splash her face...then she was over it and fell asleep in Grandmommy's arms. She did look adorable in her super cute Lilly Pulitzer bathing suit Aunt Clare gave her!

First Airplane Ride-The Hamptons!




We went on our first family vacation that required an airplane and I must say Addison did wonderful. She did better than me! As I was in tears (I am terrified of flying) Addison smiled away, ate and then passed out! She was the main attraction for both flights. Everyone including the pilot had to come by and tell us how beautiful she was and one person even told me she looked just like me! I was very excited to hear this since many people say she looks just like her daddy!
It was great seing my Aunt Ronne and Jack. Their place in Long Island is one of the most beautiful, serene places I have been too and it was great getting away. My Aunt Cheryl came to surprise me for my birthday and meet Addison for the first time. Now Addison has met all my mom's sisters. We drove up to Montauk point and that is where this family picture was taken. Addison was being a little model on the couch and daddy took her picture with our new camera Charles and my parents gave me for my birthday!


I will say traveling with a baby is a bit stressful and I don't think Daddy appreciate all the extra luggage he had to carry...what?! I had the baby I couldn't help!!!! :)


All in all it was a great trip to the Hamptons and Addison did great.