Addie 5 months

Addie with all of her toys. She knows how to make a mess that is for sure!
Mommy and Addie before the pumpkin patch!
At Grandma and Grandpa's house looking at Mickey.
Addie talking to Harrison. I just wonder what they are talking about. Can't wait to hear those conversations as they get older.

Addie has Mickey
Addison and Grandma
Mommy and Addie after her 1st feeding.



On her horsey with Bob



October 7th- we went for a doctor's visit today. We thought Addie was going to get her 6 month shots (alittle early) as mama scheduled 8 weeks out from our last appointment, but we got there and said we couldn't because of insurance reasons. So we have reschedule for the 28th of October. However we did get a check-up and talked with the doc. Addie was 18 pounds 8 ounces (95th percentile) she is 7 ounces away from tripling her birth weight. She was 26 inches long (75th percentile). her head circumference was 75th percentile. we have a healthy baby girl on our hands!

Addie went through 2 weeks of not sleeping well at night. She was getting up about every 2-3 hours. I was getting exhausted again. I even wrote my friend Mary to see if her son did this and also talked to Adam and E to see if Harrison was going through this too. I was hoping it was teething, but not the case. The doc didn't see any teeth yet, but doesn't' mean that its not starting. So not sure if it was a growth spurt or what, but she is finally back to sleeping through the night. In fact, our little one is in bed at 7 now and doesn't wake up until 6:30-7:30 in the morning. We are very lucky.

October 10th- Addie had her first food today... rice cereal. I don't think she was too found of it as most of it landed on her bib and chin. I've been trying this past week about twice a day to get her used to it, but once she is done she is done. There is no opening her mouth. She doesn't mind being in her high chair, just doesn't really like the cereal.

October 11th- Addie went to her first pumpkin patch today at Matthys. We met Adam, Elizabeth, Harrison and Jeremy's parents. The kids did so good while we took about 500 pics! I will post some as they are just so adorable.

October 13th- Jeremy's mom watched Addie all day today as I had to be in Indy for work. It was the longest I've been away from her. I left at 9:15 and got home around 6:30. She had lots of fun with Grandma and I got a good report that she was a good baby. She loved playing with her toys and Grandma said she was such a big girl in her high chair and also sitting up on the floor.

October 16th- Today I worked for a few hours in the morning when I normally would be working all day, but there are now 2 cases of H1N1 at her day care...one of which is in the nursery. Jeremy and I both wanted to keep her home so he stayed with her in the morning and I was with her the rest of the day for work. Thank goodness our employers understand. We are so lucky for that. I just don't want my baby getting sick by this nasty flu that is going around. I just hope we can keep her healthy.

So since we were home today, we visited my mom at her work and then Grammie stopped over. She got Addie 3 snow suits today. They were on sale and she went crazy (in a good way). She had this huge bag of stuff when she got to our house. Addie is just so loved!

We finally got our convertible car seats for Addie (which is one of her Christmas presents from my parents) we ordered 2 of them. These Britax car seats better be worth every penny! I did lots of research and just came to the conclusion that you can't put a price on your child's safety and I am not skimping on that one,.... or should i say Grammie and Gramps aren't skimping on that one. I love the fabric and can't wait for her to be a year before we use them. She might get them sooner, but our current car seat holds up until 30 pounds and like 32 inches or something like that so we have a while to go, but at least we are prepared for when she is ready. We decided to get 2 because with 1 infant seat its kinda of a pain on the days she goes to daycare to switch the car seat because Jeremy takes her and I pick her up so he has to drop off the seat at my work. when we switch we won't have to do that because he will have 1 in his car and I will have one (however he did fight me on ordering 2 car seats). I wanted to get a third for my parents car but he told me that was going overboard. However we all know who will win that one!