Pulling Up

This is what I now see everytime I go to get Adelyn out of her crib in the morning and after naps...

1st Thanksgiving

Hello all! We hope you had a fantastic Thanksgiving, we certainly did! The three of us went up to Atlanta wednesday morning to spend the holiday with Paul's family. It was a very very busy household, but Adelyn LOVED spending time with Nana, PopPop, all of her aunts, uncles, and cousins, Clare and Alix. As everyone cooked their dishes, we put some aside for Adelyn so she could eat everything we did- her favorites were sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, corn casserole and cranberry sauce. I got talked into doing a 5K with Aunt Kati Thursday morning, it took me a total of 2 min into the race to realize I have run a total of about 1.5 miles in a year; I nearly died, but did not feel guilty with everything that I ate all weekend. Aunt Kati won her age group and got a trophy! We spent Friday watching football and enjoying each others company. Saturday Nana wanted to take Alix, Clare and Adelyn to ride the Macy's Pink Pig; we got to the mall and there was Santa. Adelyn was very interested in him, but as soon as we set her on his lap, she started screaming. We will try again down here when I have a camera.... Saturday afternoon we watched some big rivalry games; unfortunately none of our teams won but we still celebrated mine and Clare's birthdays that night. Sunday everyone got decked out in their black and red and watched the Falcons beat the Packers. Adelyn loved it! She thoroughly enjoyed all of the people and the noises and we cant wait to take her back to another game.
We made it back safely and are starting to get back into a normal routine. We are looking forward to getting our Christmas tree up because we brought home a lot of presents to go underneath it. We cant wait to celebrate Adelyn's first Christmas, I can already tell she is getting excited!

I cant believe I forgot to tell you! Adelyn has learned how to stand up in her crib AND she has a new tooth coming in. We peeked in on her when she was supposed to be taking a nap and she was just standing there looking at us; I wish I had my camera with me, but I know we will have many more opportunities to capture that shot now. The tooth hasnt quite broken through the gum yet, but it is right there. She will be a snaggle-toothed wonder very soon!

Congratulations...a little late

I realized today that I forgot to announce the winner of the 'guess the weight/length' of Adelyn game, so... congratulations to one Miss Lindsay Friedrich who guessed 7lbs 11oz and 21.5in (real weight/height 7.12 and 21.5). When you decide to make your debut back into the US, you get a drink on me...
Also, I would like to say congratulations to my cousin, Jennifer.... Adelyn's youngest 2nd cousin, Cameron, was born this morning!

9 months and a check-up

Friday marked 3/4 of a year for Adelyn. I know I say it all the time, but seriously where has this year gone? Thanksgiving is less than a week away.... Anyways, we went to the doctor and, thankfully, she did not have to get any normal vaccinations; she did have to get the first of two flu shots, though and a small finger prick for a hemoglobin test. She took them both like the big girl she is! Her measurements are:

• 29 inches (above 90th%)
• 19.13 lbs (70%- she is starting to lose some baby fat!)
• head circumference: 19in (80%)

Dr. Thompson is very pleased with her growth and development. What can she do, you ask?

• creep: she is very close to crawling on all 4s, but for now she still enjoys getting into EVERYTHING sliding around on her belly
• She has just started getting into a sitting position from her tummy
• Pull up to standing from a sitting position (on some things... not everything quite yet)
• Plays "Patty-Cake"
• Talks a lot- she has a basic mastery for all consonants combined with an 'a' such as baba, gaga, mama, dada, etc.
• Attempts to feed herself cheerios and other finger snacks. She knows they go in the mouth, but sometimes she finds it more fun to play 'where is the cheerio?' with Buck.

Dr. Thompson did tell us that she is now old enough for us to essentially feed her everything we would eat- being careful of choking hazards, of course. I am still hesitant to feed her meat, so I will probably hold out on that one for a little longer. For now we are enjoying life with a busy little rugrat and look forward to celebrating our first Thanksgiving and Christmas with her.

Bathtime Blues

When initially beginning this post, we had been having some bad luck during bathtime. Adelyn still loved it; however, since moving to the 'big' bath, she has been terrified. The ONLY time she seemed to enjoy bath in the big tub was while in her little blue tub... we tried transitioning to a big blow up rubber duck- which blew up in my face. She could not get out of the way fast enough... she was absolutely petrified of it. Needless to say, it was returned rather quickly. Since then we have tried, unsuccessfully, to put her directly in the tub. It was a screaming match until tonight. Thankfully, we had a very successful bath tonight. I hope that it will continue, but we will see....

Mom, what do you mean I am too big for this tub?

Family Reunion

Sorry I have been so delinquent in updating the blog lately, we have been a little busy here. Ayways, the weekend before last my mom's family came to town for a mini family reunion. It was great to see everyone and Adelyn LOVED all of the attention. Here are a few pictures to tide you over until our next update... which will be very soon, I promise!

Happy Halloween!

We hope that all of you had a wonderful halloween weekend, we certainly did! It was relaxing, which is always nice. We never ended up carving our pumpkin, which I think had more to do with lack of motivation and conflicting football schedules/nappy time more than anything else. Oh well. We watched NC State, Duke (via computer updates) and the Jaguars all WIN!! Thankfully neither Paul nor I are die hard UGA fans, so when they lost in OT, we were not completely broken hearted. We got dolled up last night and went to a friends house who does a trick-or-treating hayride for all of the kids; much to daddy's chagrin, we are not yet at the trick-or-treat stage, so we only stayed on for the first non-stop ride. I think our little mermaid had a lot of fun, though was a little confused by all of the silly costumes.