In Memory of Poppy

For those of you who may not know, my dad and Addie's Poppy passed away last Sunday. We are so very grateful for the short time that she had with him. Dad had been sick for four and half years with cancer. He was a trooper and fought so hard for all of us. We kept giving him milestones to fight toward and the last one was Addie's birth. After her delivery, he seemed to just get worse.

After speaking with one of friends who lost her grandfather at a young age, she told me that her and her sister had heard so many stories of her grandfather that it was like they knew him. They also missed him so much and had barely known him. These are the kind of feelings that I hope to instill in Addie about Dad.

My cousin Tammy made this slide show about Dad and I stole it from her myspace.

6 weeks old on January 7th

We took these pictures the weekend before we went back to work. Addie turned 6 weeks old. She is starting to smile and coo at us. The first two pictures are of her naked with a bow head. The third picture is of her in her crocheted bonnet, sweater and booties from the Boatrights. She looks a little ticked off. The last picture is of her in her outfit from Aunt April. We were trying to catch a smile but she had just started smiling and they were lasting very long!!

Cute babies, back to work and sick dad

This picture was just too cute to not put up and I don't have a lot of time. This is Addie with her best buddy Maebrie at our Cotton Bowl party. They are too precious!!

I went back to work this Monday and that went surprisingly well. I will write more about that later.

For those of you who I haven't got to visit with lately, Dad (Poppy) isn't doing very well right now. He is currently back at the hospital. Addie and I are going home this weekend to see him. Lots of you have called to check on Addie, my mom and her toe, dad, me and work and Jeremy and I am sorry I just don't have time to visit right now. I am trying to dedicate my evenings to Addie and preparing for our next day, and I have been spending lots of time on the phone with Grammy and Poppy. I am able to correspond best by email at school in my downtime so feel free to email me: andreajyates@hotmail.com