Mom Vs Addilyn

  

I'm pretty sure Addilyn looks like me when I was a baby... Ever since she was born she will give the occasional "Smith" look. But my newborn photos look like hers! Her eyes still haven't decided on a color. But Scott and I are pretty sure they're going to be green now. She wanted to please us both (me being brown, and Scott blue). She sure is just the sweetest thing!

4 months old!

I wish I could tell you how much she weighs and how tall she is right now, but that will have to wait until her appointment later this month. She is super tall, that's about all I can say. I can though give you an update of her progress! She can stand! Holy smokes! Of course I'm holding her hands, but she totally can stand. We have witnesses. Ever since we bought her excer-saucer thing, she's been rocking it and getting so strong. She's going to being running before we know it....sad! I want her to stay little forever. But I guess that's why you have more babies and eventually grandbabies right? One of my most favorite things right now is her laugh is sounding more like a laugh instead of a grunt or fast inhale. She is becoming much more active with her legs and holding them in the air and grabbing for her feet.

We just love our little girl. She's so much fun. Last night I called Scott to come into the bathroom while I was giving her a bath. She was so amazed at the water coming out of the faucet. It was running off my hand and she was trying to grab at it. It's so neat to watch her experience things for the first time. We love being parents!

The Westerns!

The Westerns came and visited us during the Labor Day weekend. So much fun! We got a lot of work done around the house- they came, they worked, they concurred. We got the front room finished (paint that is) and the upstairs is completely finished with ceilings. (the walls are in progress)

While they were here, we also got some awesome walks in at cool parks and a sweet mini photo session of the mom and dad of soon to be three! In these photos, Shirley is 36 weeks along.

These photos were taken at Tanglewood Park.

The girls had so much fun with the ducks.

Olivia and Cabo first met in May. Ever since then she has been dying to see him again. Cabo was the best babysitter. The two of them played all the time. Olivia was in and out of the house going and building Cabo a house out of boxes and giving him ice cubes.

We went to Hobby Park on Sunday and watched some planes. We also went on a short walk through the woods. The stroller wasn't going to cut it. So Scott got the hiking bag. Poor Addi was a little too small. But she just slept the entire time.

Her little legs spread out

Overall we had a great time with the Westerns. We are sad to see them leave, but excited for them too! They are closing on a house tomorrow in their new town of Atlanta, Georgia. We also are excited to meet their newest addition who should be making her debut within the month.

So much to post...so little time..

 First of all, grandma Jadwin came to town! She stayed with us for 2 weeks. We got a lot accomplished...we ate, cleaned, ate, shopped, ate, went on adventures, ate, and played with Addi- oh, and ate some more.

 Little Richards-ribs, hushpuppies, red slaw, and onion rings. Good ol' southern food.

 Reynolda Village.

 Old Salem. We walked around and got a glimpse of more of this beautiful campus.

Chick-fil-A

While here, we visited the Eskelsens who moved here almost 6 years ago. They live about an 1 1/2 from Scott and me. They have 4 beautiful horses and 2 cute little dogs who couldn't help but lick Addilyn.

JoAnne and Niels

I cut my poor hair. Over 6 inches...gone. The fun thing is that I did it without Scott knowing. The night before I was asking Scott if he liked my long hair, blah blah blah. He had no clue. He said that I should start looking around for a person to do my hair. Little did he know I had my appointment the next day. Later that day when he saw me it took a couple hours. It wasn't until we were home from eating dinner that he had seen the card that I accidentally left in the door. Then he asked and realized my hair was shorter!

The after math.

 And now for some cute pictures of Addilyn...

She was so cute sticking her foot under the faucet

Eating ribs at our new favorite bbq place

Me and Cabo...

She's apparently very hungry.

 

These last photos were of the day she left. We of course went and ate some delish subs. It was so great having Grandma here. She was an amazing babysitter. We got tons done and gained a few pounds.