My First Snow

Last Wednesday, my Grammy came up to spend the night because she was suppose to take care of me when I got my first shots. However, it snowed that night. So the next morning, mom, dad and Grammy stayed home with me. My appointment at the pediatrician got cancelled due to inclement weather. Now Grammy has to come back this week. This is my dad after he played in the snow with Bella with me and Mom. I didn't like the snow falling in my face. I got all bundled up just to run out the front door and take these pictures. Grammy thinks that mom and dad are crazy and I should live with her!!!

My Favorite Toy

My second cousin, Weston, bought me this cool Elmo thing for Christmas!!! I love it. It lights up and Elmo goes back and forth. I love to track Elmo with my eyes going back and forth. I talk and smile at this toy all time. I can play with it in my chair and laying on the floor. Thanks Weston, I can't wait to play with you.

My First Trip to HairClub

Last Tuesday night, was my first trip to HairClub. Mom, Jamie, Maebrie and I loaded up and went to Fayetteville. Mom introduced to me to Krissy and Baby Ian(who is actually like 16). Mom had something stinky put on her head and when I woke up, her hair was a different color!! We love Krissy and can't wait for her to cut my hair too!!!

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

5 weeks old and trying to smile

Addie is now 5 weeks old!!!

We took the picture of you in your bed with your pink and grey striped suit on tonight. You were doing a good job sitting and then you face planted into the bed and fell down!

The other picture of you in your bed, you are wearing one of your gowns from your Great Aunt Pam. At first they were a little big but everything was!! Now you have to sleep in a gown because you won't keep your arms covered up at night and you aren't big on being swaddled. Also in the picture is your piggy bank from Aunt Pam that you got for Christmas.

This last picture is a kinda smile. You have been starting to smile at us for about a week now. Grammy says your first real smiles were at her. They are hard to catch on camera.