13 months -- December 26th

Miss Adalynn is now 13 months old. She has achieved several milestones this month.

• Being a late walker, she is finally now a walker. She walks most places now. This happened while we were at home for Christmas. Addie is very independent but also knows she will get what she wants. She wasn't to motivated to walk.
• She is cautious in most situations but warms up quickly.
  
• She is eating whatever she wants. Now that she can feed herself she isn't too excited about things on a spoon.
• She is starting to grow some hair. It is thickening and some of it is long. Some days it is blonde and sometimes it looks dark? It is straight for now no indication of curl.
• She loves babies and kisses them.
• She can crawl into her chair and sit down.
  
• She is working on coloring but mainly just takes all the crayons and puts them into her mouth.

Words I can say or try to say

• Mama
• Dada
• Bella
• Bawks like a chicken ( we have this down )
• Quack
• Duck
• Book
• Ball
• Dog
• Ga "Grammy"
• "gone-gone"
• Mamba "Maebrie"
• Bye
• something that sounds like "juice"
  
• there are these two syllable words that she attempts but they all sound the same Justin, Thank-you and Santa
• this is what we can understand-- she talks all the time and is starting to utter these long sentences with a lot of /d/ sounds in them
  

She is understanding so much. She knows where her belly is, and her head and sometimes nose. She prefers to identify our parts instead of her own. She knows what her socks are. I am surprised everyday by what she knows. Today Jeremy came in the house and said "where is your mama?" and she pointed to me and said "Ma-ma"

We are kinda sleeping through the night. However, we have been congested and are cutting two molars and then we traveled so we haven't been doing to fabulously lately.

We are up to 6 teeth. She is wearing 12 and some 18 month clothes. Starting to wear some size 4 shoes. She weighs around 22 lbs. Eyes are definitely brown. She has my waxy ears and when she is thinking really hard she locks her jaw just like Jeremy. We still catch her crossing her ankles like her daddy and great grandmother and occassionally we catch her moving her tongue around which my mom claims that I do also. She is the best helper ever. Any project that we doing she is more than willing to help from wrapping presents to loading the dishwasher. Her favorite toys are still her books! I hope that continues throughout her life. She seems to be a very smart little girl.

Christmas Morning

We got home around 10ish on Christmas Eve and is was like 21 degrees and super cold. Addie woke up coming into the house and was ready to play with my mom and brother. We stayed up for a while and she went to sleep around 11. Then Santa had to locate and assemble the kitchen. We had wrapped all the presents. Somehow we forgot to make Santa's cookies.

Christmas morning she awoke around 8, so we all sprang forth for our first Christmas at home. First we did Santa presents which was pretty much the only thing under the tree. Santa brought the kitchen, Bee Bop Band, a Cabbage Patch kid, puzzles, books, a push toy, computer, vacuum cleaner, lawnmower, Clippo table, Happy Feet, and a bag full of clothes. That's all I can remember. Then we did our exchange with Grammy and Randy.

Uncle Randy bought Addie a shopping cart with food. Grammy bought Addie a Princess cd player/jewelry box, bath toys, a fuzzy purse and a bunch of clothes and some more books.

We had a wonderful Christmas and are learning to play and operate all of our new toys. We have cleaned out Addie's closet and put some toys in there.

For her birthday we invested the money she got into Savings Bonds. However, with her Christmas money we invested in a toy box chest. If we forgot anyone we are sorry. We appreciate each and every one of you and hope that you had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Lunch with Ma and Pa and Dinner at the Burris' house

We had celebrated Christmas with Jeremy's parents on Christmas Eve. Somehow I got pinned into the family room before I could get my camera. I will have to get the picture from Jeremy's dad because he took a lot. I think that most of you know and have heard of Jeremy's parents love for Christmas. If not imagine a living room with Don, Becky, Justin, Jeremy, Addie and myself and each of us surrounded on all sides by presents and not being able to walk! Addie got a lot of presents but the highlights were a rocking horse and Power Wheels Fire Truck. Her favorite is probably the Little People Farm with animals.

That evening we celebrated Christmas with a dinner at Jeremy's Aunt Patsy's house in Spiro, Oklahoma. We were able to see all of Jeremy's extended family. Then we were able to leave from there to head home to Centerton to meet Santa. The highlight of the trip was when we were a mile from Patsy's house in road work and the car headed for us didn't follow the cones and almost hit us head on. Luckily we saw it coming and pulled off the road and stopped our car. It could have been really bad! Stupid Oklahoma Drivers!!!

Breakfast with Grandmother the 24th

We had breakfast with Jeremy's Grandmother and Jeremy's cousins and their children. Grandmother has a breakfast on Christmas and then one on Christmas Eve as well for those of us who have Santa on Christmas morning. This is Darcy, Britlyn, Adalynn, Alyssa, and Breck with Grandmother. They belong to Todd and Robert. They both are tall have dark hair and Todd has glasses so Addie was really confused by more people who look like Daddy. Grandmother got Addie a baby doll, a holiday bear and some books and trinkets. Thanks Grandmother!!!

Memaw and Papaw Holt Christmas 23rd

This is Addie with Ma, Memaw and Papaw. Family tree again just to help everyone out. This is Jeremy's mom and her mom and dad. They live in Greenwood. Ma's brother Jim went to California this year for Christmas so it was just us. Memaw and Papaw were going to Memphis to help take care of Jim's animals so they hosted our Christmas early. This helped us out so that we could have our Christmas at home as well.



This is Addie sitting in a highchair. Whose highchair you may ask? Well Memaw told Papaw to get up in the attic and get down Becky's highchair. And well there it was. 52 years old, I believe. It was metal and pink and Addie enjoyed the noises that it made. It was very cute and Memaw and Papaw got a kick out of it.






This is Addie sitting in Memaw's rocking chair from when she was a little girl! Apparently Memaw keeps everything!

We enjoyed a wonderful meal and Addie enjoyed all of Memaw's music boxes and piano playing. They bought Addie a baby doll that she really loved and gave lots of kisses!

Visiting Granny Morrison- Tuesday the 23rd

Mom, Randy, Jeremy, Addie and I went to visit Granny on Tuesday. Granny is my dad's mom for those of you who may not know. She is 94? somewhere around there. She bought Addie some pull toys (a puppy and a phone) Addie was super excited. She also got a puzzle from Aunt Linda and some matching card puzzle things from Cousin Tammy. Aunt Pam mailed her some money and Cousin Brittany sent her a learning dog with Grammy.

We got to see Granny and Uncle Ronnie but that was all. The Morrison Family Christmas was on Christmas Day and we had planned to have Christmas at our house with Addie. We missed you guys but we loved the presents! Thank you so much for thinking of us!

Henson Christmas!

This is Addie sitting in my mom's lap waiting to greet the first person to arrive for the Henson family Christmas. Henson was my mom's maiden name and I think most of you know that she has four sisters. I am super close to all of them and my cousins. My mom hosted everyone at her house for our gift exchange-- we draw names. Addie and Jonah drew each other I think that was set up but anyways.



Jeremy and Addie opening her present from Jonah. It was a baby called Dress up Daisy. She has clothes that snap on. She is super cute and is in Addie's shopping cart.












Cousin Jordan helping Jonah open his train from Addie. It had balls which Addie wanted. She was a little aggressive with Jonah and I hope that Jordan and Susan haven't banned Jonah from playing with us.

We enjoyed getting to see all the cousins, aunts and uncles. We had a few new dating and fiancee faces and we enjoyed them as well. We missed Aunt JoAnne, Uncle David and Cousin Nolan. They live in Memphis!