To Wear Shorts or not to wear shorts?

The weather has been so crazy lately. We actually got to put shorts on your chubby, white, little legs for the first time a few weekends ago! You are overcoming your first cold. You have had a cough, runny nose and congestion but no fever. There is also a lot of drool! No teeth yet but I don't think that it will be much longer.

Celebrating Firsts

As we celebrate all of these firsts with Addie, we have such happiness but also sadness. We have had Easter, Spring Break and now the NCAA basketball tournament. Yes, Addie loves to watch basketball. We also celebrate these things without Poppy. Who knew that someone could cry over their basketball bracket or their girl scout cookies?

The NCAA basketball bracket is a memory that Dad and I have shared since I was about 9. Also, he loved his Samoa girl scout cookies. I couldn't wait for them to come. Then when they did I didn't want to eat them. These are just a few of the firsts with Addie and without Poppy.

She is my strength and I am so happy to have her here to help heal our hearts!

My First Easter!

This is Addie with her Easter basket. The idea was for her dress to be spread out around Bumbo but she kept eating her hands and her dress. For Easter, she got these cute glasses. She really likes them but she was sleepy and ready to eat. She had had enough Easter Bunny!

Day Trip to Branson

This is us, in front of the fountain, at the Branson Landing. We had never been there before. It is kinda like the Promenade Mall. Anyways, you can only park at one end or the other. So we parked and walked down to eat at Joe's Crab Shack. This was the whole point of the trip because we don't have one in NWA. So we get into the restaurant and sit down and I start feeding Addie. I feel her pooping on me and then I feel something warm on my leg. She pooped through her diaper, pants, shirt and onto my jeans. So her change of clothes is back at the car. She had to wear her dress/shirt with no leggings. I had on new shoes that had cut open my heels so we stopped and bought some socks but that didn't help so I bought new flipflops. We also had to purchase sunscreen because we were afraid Addie would get burnt! But once all of that was out of the way, we had a great time!

Spring Break and Eating!

We had our first Spring Break together as a family! It went rather well. I had planned to introduce Addie to rice cereal over Spring Break and move her to the big girl crib! Ha! Ha! That didn't happen.

First let's discuss Addie's outlook on rice cereal: "Mom, I don't really like it"

Now my outlook: Everyone has told me give her rice cereal and she'll sleep through the night! Apparently, the rules for feeding babies rice cereal has changed in the last few years. The recommended age for solids is 4 months but they are starting to prefer 6 months. I guess most people "older moms" fed their babies the rice cereal as early as two weeks to get them to sleep through the night. I don't care if Addie sleeps through the night or not! We only get up once sometimes twice and I am okay with that. The purpose of the rice cereal is for her to learn about manipulating food not sleeping through the night! So needless to say, I am not putting it in a bottle and I am not pushing it on her. We are offering it to her and she shuts her mouth around the spoon and then most of it comes back out! We still have a reverse swallow pattern. Therefore, she isn't sleeping through night and isn't sleeping in the big girl bed. She still sleeps next to me in her bassinet.

More Shopping!!

The weekend before Easter, Grammy, Weezer, Grammy Carla, Cousins Susan and Jonah came up to Fayetteville to go shopping!! That is like all we do. Addie and Jonah had their picture made with the Easter Bunny! He looks pretty excited in this picture but Addie does not!

Me and My Daddy

We placed Addie in this carrier on Jeremy and she didn't mind it. I think Uncle Will and Auntie Tracie bought us this apparatus. We have yet to take her out in it but it works now! She mainly just ate her hands the whole time Jeremy walked around with her.