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!!!

June 26th- 7 months old

Today was Addie's 7-month birthday!! She broke the skin and has a tooth on the bottom. What a great birthday present. We are going to Kansas City this weekend for a mini vacation and for Addie's 7-month birthday. We are going to the zoo, her first visit to see the animals. We are super excited. We will take pictures and get them posted when we get back!

Dead Batteries! Bon Voyage Grammy!

We went to Mansfield this last weekend. We saw Grammy, Uncle Randy, Carla, David, Clayton, Logan, Jonah, Bev, Bill, Pa Cecil, Gran Norma, Granny, Tammy, Barry, Brittany, Linda, Sue, and Ronnie.

Our camera batteries were dead so we didn't get the pictures but Grammy did. The next time Grammy comes up to see us we will steal her pictures. So everyone will have to wait for those.

Also Grammy leaves for her cruise this Friday. Bring me back some baby margarita from Margaritaville, Grammy!! We love you be careful!

I am a big GIRL!!

So as a mother, I have discovered that there are some things that really concern me and some things that don't. As a therapist and a mommy the two things that I have been super paranoid about were first the CARSEAT and second of all SIPPY CUPS.

I registered for and received the carseat that won all the safety awards. Which Addie also sits in during tornadoes.

As far as the sippy cup goes, we are using straw cups and she does really well with restaurant straws however; home cups with straws are spill proof. So they have weird little straw valves so she has to mash with her gums and then suck! But she is getting the hang of it. Here Daddy is holding the cup up so that when she bites it, water will come. Kinda cheating but it helped her learn the cause and effect of the straw cup.

Most people are somewhat impressed with this but yes Addie can suck through a straw and has been doing it for a while now.

Going swimming in the little pool!!

For Father's Day, we bought Addie her kiddy pool, filled it up, let it warm in the sun and then played in the shade. This is her preparing for the outing.

Here I am playing in the pool. It was just like a big bathtub. I didn't love it but I didn't hate either.

Eating a fish!