More Costumes

For whatever reason, vacationing friends and family want to buy Addie outfits/costumes. The top picture of Addie is one of three Mexican dresses Addie now owns. We ran out of time playing dressup the other two will be up shortly.

The bottom picture is of Addie in her bikini top and hula skirt also from Mexico.

Aunt Vicki and Duck Suit

Aunt Vicki went to the WalMart Sample store and all I got was a Duck Suit! Haha. This is one of the most hysterical things I have seen. For those of you who don't live here, we have a sample store that only WalMartians can shop at. They have sample items and items that vendors have brought in and well I don't know what all because I am not one of them!! But anyways, Vicki's husband, Bill is retired from WalMart so this is what she bought Addie to wear for Halloween. It is super cute but super hot. She is not wearing pants. But she loves it and thinks that it is funny.

Addie is Growing!!! Make sure you have volume on.

to be continued...........................

Trying soooo hard to crawl

This is Addie before we went to the school fund raiser with her Decatur bow. I think that this is a super cute picture of her. For the last two days, she has been arching her back up like a cat. She is very mobile rolling around and spinning on her belly she just isn't very fast.


She has also been eating some new things. She eats anything and ALL of whatever we give her. Tonight she ate some mac and cheese with me. She has also had some rice and refried beans. She loves a good meal!!

A Wonderful Weekend

Hopefully, I can figure out how to get the pictures from my phone to Jeremy's ipod and then onto the computer but for now you will just have to hear about it. While Mom was up with Addie, I was able to do a few things that I wanted to do to Addie's room. Jeremy has been wonderful caring for Addie but when I come home he is ready for a break and I am ready to spend time with just her. So having Mom here allowed for me to do some stuff.

Friday night, I painted an accent wall in Addie's room. So now she has a pink wall and her stuffed animal hanger that I made is complete. I will post pictures of that soon.

Saturday afternoon, Grammy left, we played and laughed and took a nap together. Saturday evening, we went to the Save Decatur Schools fundraiser and we had a blast. It was like 100 degrees but Addie didn't care. We saw a snake and rode on a turtle.

We also saw all of Addie's friends from Anna's as well as Anna. Addie was so excited to see Alea and Braxton. I think that she remembers them. She was so hot and I forgot to take a cup so I bought her some bottled water. She had a hard time drinking it effectively so I bought her a snow cone with no juice and she loved it!!

We tried to buy her a fort/swingset thing at the auction but I lost out. It went a little higher than I was willing to pay. $400 was my limit and that's what it went for:( We will get one when Addie is big enough to use it.

During the auction, I gave Addie the bottle of water to play with. She splashed and had a great time pouring it all over herself!! Before we left we had to change her diaper and her clothes!!

When we came home we played in the bed and every time I looked at Addie she would just laugh! I know that many of you have kids and you know the feeling, but the love she has is so amazing. Most of you know everything that I went through to get her. Not that all of your children aren't special but for those of us who had to work hard to get ours, it is truly a miracle of life.

We had a wonderful mother and daughter weekend! However, we did miss our Daddy and are ready for him to be home!

Grammy Visit!

As part of Daddy's birthday, he wanted to go to Memphis to play his war game with his buddies. I don't think that Mommy realized he was going to be gone 3 full days and 3 nights but anyways my Grammy came to visit and take care of me Friday!

She was suppose to have a phone conference on Friday morning but I screamed with laughter throughout the whole thing! So Mommy, had to stay home with me until it was over.

Oil Detox Anyone?

So after our last visit to HairClub, Chrissy claims that she did this detox and it pulled toxins from her body and whitened her teeth.

Jamie and I decided to try it. You take 1 teaspoon of EVOO and 1 teaspoon of Sunflower oil and swoosh for 20 minutes.

After 13 minutes, I almost puked so I spit mine out. Jamie lasted the whole 20 minutes. It taste like a whole lot of sunflower seeds that are kinda burnt. When we spit it out, it wasn't black like the internet claimed just oily looking! We didn't feel any better and our teeth weren't any whiter! However, we are both breastfeeding mothers so I am not sure how many toxins we actually have in our bodies currently?

But for now we will let Chrissy continue to cut our hair and leave her crazy witch potions at the salon!

Can you see my teeth?

Here is Addie acting silly after a diaper change. She is wearing her shorts on her head!!
I think that maybe you can see the two teeth here?

Happy 20th Uncle Randy and 30th Daddy!

One of the fun things about our families, is that we all share summer birthdays.
Mommy- June 4th
Ma- June 10th
Uncle Randy- July 14th
Daddy- July 16th
Grammy- August 1st
Pa- August 8th (I think?)

Then Addie, Uncle Nub and Poppy all have fall birthdays.

Daddy is exactly ten years older than Uncle Randy. Last Sunday, we had birthday lunch with
Randy, and Grammy at Olive Garden.

On Monday, we let Daddy open his presents early because it was Mommy's day off. I love wrapping paper and boxes.

Are we ready to sleep through the night?

Yes I know that most of you thinking, "your baby is almost 8 months and she isn't sleeping through the night yet?" Well the answer to that is NO!

From the birth of Miss Adalynn, she has been a great sleeper. But just couldn't make it through the night. For the longest time, she would only get up once. Then through the teething month it was a lot 2, 3 or 4 times.

In the last week, she has slept through the night twice. I was very surprised when I woke up this morning and it was 8:30 and Addie was not in our bed. This is super exciting but also sad that she is growing up so fast.

I have 2 teeth!!

Officially, Addie has two teeth now. I have not been able to get a picture of them yet.
But I will keep trying. She has been biting me while nursing, not real happy about that!!! Hopefully this will give her some temporary relief until the next teeth come in.

Happy 30th Birthday Daddy!!!

We celebrated Jeremy's 30th Birthday this Saturday night with his friends.

I decided to host a murder mystery dinner theater for Jeremy's birthday. I wanted it to be a surprise but there was no way that I was going to pull this off, and work and care for an infant. Jeremy chose the 20's themed, mafia, Italian- speakeasy murder. We visited Party City and bought some decor and we were ready. Everyone brought a dish to complete our Italian potluck. We converted our foyer/dining room into the lounge and dance floor. The living room became the dining area, the breakfast nook was the gambling table. We also discovered that our whirlpool tub makes a fabulous ice chest. We put two bags of ice in the bottom, then sat the drinks in with a layer of rock salt and then covered the drinks with eight additional bags of ice. We all had a great time.

As for Addie, she spent a few hours with Jamie's mom and dad, and Maebrie. I am not sure what they did to her but she slept all night, woke up at 7 and ate and then went back to sleep until 10. Maybe they should keep her more often!!!

Comments Please!!

As most of you know, I made Addie's blog private.
If you know anyone who would like access please email me their email address.
My email is andreajyates@hotmail.com.

Also blogging is not very exciting if no one is reading or commenting.
I am not asking for a comment from everyone on every picture
but please just post something so that I know who is keeping up.

And who knows I might add your picture!!!

Fourth of July

We went to the hometown of Mansfield for the 4th of July
We saw many friends and family.
This slideshow is just a few.
Somehow we missed a few pictures of Addie with everyone but these should do:

Pediatrician Visit

On Tuesday, July 2nd, we went to the pediatrician. Pediatrician is a new term for me. As a first time mom, I often use the word veterinarian instead and sometimes gynecologist. Obviously very different doctors.

However, it was time for Adalynn's 6 month shots. We weren't behind the clinic just couldn't get us in. So she was actually 7 months and 1 week. She continues to be perfectly healthy but her percentiles are a little scattered on the growth chart.

Height/Length 26 inches 33rd percentile (I knew she was short)

Weight 17lbs 7.5oz 57th percentile

Head Circum 45cm 93rd percentile (she has Jeremy's head)
This is her in her cute outfit to go the pediatrician. I am not sure I feel she needs to look cute to go there because they make us take off all her clothes!

My new milestones:
I can roll everywhere to get what I want
I can put my binks in my mouth all by myself
I am eating 4 oz of cereal and 6 oz of fruits and veggies
I can suck through a straw
I can hold my cup
I sit up independently
I am starting to use a pincer grasp (Donna: that means thumb and pointer finger)
I eat everything but peaches
I hate mashed potatoes (I throw them up)
I have one tooth and the other is about to break the skin
I can transfer toys back and forth from hand to hand
I look for objects when I lose them or drop them
I am kinda sleeping good at night most nights 9 to 3 or 4ish
I have moved to size 3 diapers as well
I can sit up well enough to sit in the shopping cart and high chair when we are out

this is all I can think of right now.

Mommy's Job!

As most of you have seen on the news my school is at risk for consolidation. This is very complicated for me. I have a contract so I am guaranteed a job. The only problem is I am not sure where. Decatur or Gentry? You see I am actually employed at Gentry but work at Decatur. So if Decatur gets consolidated somewhere else, I won't be there.

You all know that I love my school and my kids so please pray for me that this will all work for the best interest of everyone involved.

The Zoo comes to an End!!!

Sleeping baby. The zoo is a very exciting place. She was able to take about a 10 minute nap before some screaming children woke her up.

Our child is very spoiled and we realize that. BUT, Dr. Harmon says nothing before the age of 9 months spoils a child? We visited the gift shop and there was a wall full of stuffed animals. As the paranoid parents that we are, we are looking for one that is somewhat baby proof. They have one ---- a lion with a rattle so I lean over to look at it and Addie grabs this Tiger and stuffs it in her mouth.

Later, Jeremy says to Addie, "What is this Tiger's name?"
Addie looks right at Jeremy and says, "GEE"
So this is Gee the Tiger and we all love her a lot and our happy to have her in our family.

Summer Learning

Here we are learning about monkeys. There was a cute baby monkey and mommy in front of us. Then we saw a hurt monkey, a monkey peeing and two monkeys participating in intercourse! It was very educational in the monkey area that day!














Here is Addie with Daddy learning about rhinos. The rhino made a big mess in the mud and was having a hard time standing up. It had stormed the night before and was cloudy this morning so all the animals felt great and were out and about.

Ready for the Zoo!

Here is Addie in her zebra print hat and her Wild Thing zebra onesie ready for the zoo!!!


















This is my new favorite picture of Addie. She was staring at flamingos!













This is the first animal Addie saw at the zoo. I swear the lady said it was called a "blue tailed skank" ????

Addie doing a little reading

Most of you are aware of Jeremy and his hobbies.
Well this is a picture, Miss Addie in the hotel reading the latest edition of the White Dwarf magazine.

My First Vacation!!

Since this year brought a baby, we knew that we would not be able to travel far. So we decided to take a few small trips. This last weekend we went to Kansas City. Neither of us had ever been there just traveled through. We spent the night in Overland Park, Kansas at the Marriott-Courtyard which was super nice and very affordable.

This was Addie's first night in the hotel on vacation. We went to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner. Addie found lots of small children there that she wanted to play with. We tried mashed potatoes for the third time and continued to gag
on them. I am not sure what is up with that.

So then since we let her stay up way past her bedtime, she wouldn't sleep in the pack 'n play. Jeremy and I fell asleep with this adorable little monster between us spinning in circles and singing herself to sleep.

My Papaw and Jeremy's Grandad would tell stories about how we were crazy sleeping buddies, well Addie must have inherited that from both of us!!!

Stay At Home Dad

I asked Jeremy to take some pictures of Addie during the day while I am gone! This is what I ended up with. The first week we were out of school was my birthday week and I stayed home with Addie but then I started to work part-time. I am working 9-2 at school, two days a week and then 9-6 two days a week for a friend in Fayetteville. Not really part-time. Anyways, Jeremy is a stay at home dad and is loving it. This makes me appreciate my school set up so much because the two days I am away from all day with no visits are very long!!!