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.

Christmas on the 24th

On the 24th, we had Christmas with Pa, Mamaw, Grandmother, Uncle Justin and Aunt April. Uncle Justin opened all your presents and Daddy held you while Mommy took the pictures. We had just returned from the big Yates' Christmas dinner and you were hot and tired in your Christmas dress that Mrs. Vicki bought you. You made it through these pictures and then off came the dress and you were hungry!!! In these pictures you are riding your big stuffed dog from Pa and Mamaw and Uncle Nub is holding up the turtle neck that goes with the outfit from Aunt April.

Christmas on the 23rd

These are the pictures of you on December 23rd. The day that we had Christmas with Grammy, Poppy and Uncle Randy. You wore your Christmas pj's that Mrs. Courtney (mommy's speech therapist mentoree) bought for you and wore the hat that Mamaw bought you. You were adorable. You had a very nice 1st Christmas and received so many wonderful gifts. Thanks to everyone for giving Addie a wonderful Christmas!!

We are behind!!

We have taken a lot of pictures but just haven't had time to get them on the computer in a way that would please me!! I am going to attempt to get some pics up with just a small commentary about what was happening that day! This day was Addie's first bottle from Daddy and a basketball game!!