Family photos

So it feels like I haven't blogged in quite some time. Well, it's June now. And it's the month of schools getting out, the longest day of the year, my birthday, and the hot humid summer really beginning.

For Addilyn's one year, we took family photos courtesy of Megan Ronnow. We took them at one of mine and Scott's favorite places here in Winston-Salem, the Reynolda Village. It's where the home of RJ Reynolds is at. It's so beautiful.

 They have gardens there at the village and they are original to the layout when the Reynolds lived there. Wake Forest takes care of them now. We love coming here in the evening to see all the fire flies in the fields. There's a large trail that goes around the many acres that we've gone on with Cabo. 

Lately Addilyn has been walking a lot! She took her first steps just 2 days before Grandpa came. Ever since then she'll take an average of 3 steps and then stop. But yesterday and today she walks like it's no big deal. Granted she still crawls often. But she's walking across the room without any trouble.

Other cute things about Addilyn is when she says "please" in sign language, she rubs her belly instead of her chest. She pats her mouth and your mouth like an Indian and says "awww". She also sticks her tongue in and out of her mouth to feel her teeth. When she does that, she also does her baby talk, so it sounds really funny.

When she goes down stairs, she turns around really early at the top. That way she has a foot or two to back up while she's trying to feel for the first step.  Also with her teeth, since her two front teeth are now more prominent, they are now more useful to her. So she'll take her food, like cheerios, and bite them in half between her teeth before putting them into her mouth.

Addi loves eskimo kisses. She even gives them to her polar bear. And today I showed her how to give them to Cabo, and she DID! It was too cute. Addilyn thinks butterfly kisses are ridiculously ticklish and with smack your face away laughing.