Addison's 2 month checkup

I took Addison yesterday (June 29 2009) to Dr. Simmon's for a 2 month wellness check. She weighed 9.8 lbs (14%), is 22 inches long (30%), and her head circumference is 15 1/4 inches (44%). Basically, Addison is on the small size for her age. I took in a long list of questions to the doctor. Dr. Simmons says that we have a beautiful baby girl and that I need to stop worrying. I asked him about her weight being so low, but he said he thinks she's just fine and lots of babies are too fat and he'd rather her be smaller than too big.
My mom (Grammy) went with me for support because Addison had to get 3 shots today. I gave her a little bit of tylenol before we went to the doctor's, but she still cried really hard during the shots. She did fall asleep in Grammy's arms a few minutes after she got her shots. The rest of the day she wanted to be coddled and I was happy to oblige. I also put warm cloths on both her thighs where she had gotten the shots and massaged the boo boo for her. Sorry you had to get shots Addison! We love you!

Addison's Baby Blessing

On Saturday before her blessing, I tried two different dresses on Addison to pick which one to bless her in. This dress was made by my Grandma Beals (my mother's mother). No one has been blessed in this dress yet. It is a beautiful dress. I will say that Addison did NOT enjoy trying on these two dresses; she was crying through most of the process!

A beautiful dress on a beautiful girl!

Grandma Beals' dress

The dress Addison was blessed in: Here is the other dress we tried on Addison. This dress was made by my mother. I was blessed in this dress when I was a baby.

Two beautiful dresses: Which one should we use?

It's a beautiful dress- very long!

Here she is wearing the bow I decided to put in her hair.

Even her pacifier is white!

We decided to put her in the dress I was blessed in because we thought that would be very special. Grammy came over in the morning and bathed Addison. Here she is dressing Addison in the dress she sewed over 28 years ago.

Addison didn't cry as much for Grammy as she dressed her. Grammy knew more tricks for getting her in the dress then I did.

There are a lot of pearl buttons that had to be buttoned!

Even the shoes Addison wore were the same shoes I wore when I was blessed. The only thing we did different was the bow that I put on Addison's head.

She looks like she's enjoying herself here.

All done!

Addison slept most of the time she was in this dress and she was not as fussy as she usually is in sacrament meeting. We're thinking about putting her in this dress every Sunday!

She may look like a lady, but Steve said that during the last few sentences of the blessing that Addison kept farting. All the men in the circle started laughing in the circle. Luckily, in the audience, we couldn't hear the farting or the laughing!

Daddy and his little darling!

I don't think I would fit in this dress anymore!

I had to take a picture of her in the car seat because it is so cute and funny! I couldn't figure out how to buckle the bottom part with this LONG LONG dress!

We blessed Addison on June 28, 2009. We started the morning with my mom coming over to help me bathe Addison and get her dressed. It was really special for me and mom to have her help get Addison ready for the blessing. For me, I really loved watching Grammy Larsen getting Addison dressed because my mom actually sewed the dress that Addison wore when my older brother, Tyler, was a baby. My mom sewed the dress on a treadle sewing machine. A treadle sewing machine is not electric, so you have to pump the foot pedal the entire time you are sewing. It's a LOT of work. I asked mom why she sewed the dress this way and she said that she wanted the dress to be extra special. Sadly, Tyler didn't get to wear the dress because some people in her family told her it was too girly for Tyler to wear, but Kimber and I both were blessed in this dress.
The blessing was a very special event. In attendance: Jan and Brad Larsen (Grammy and Poppa), Brenda and Dennis Dodson (Nanna and Grandpa), Tyler and Jen Larsen (Uncle and Aunt), Makenna and Brynlee (cousins), Letty and Art Castillo (friends), Norm and Jo Hollingsworth (friends), Curtis Crane (friend), Tom and Melissa Connolly (Uncle and Aunt), Nate Connolly (cousin), Tim and Catie Gregory (friends), and Tyler Prescott (friend). In the blessing circle: Tyler Larsen, Tom Connolly, Brad Larsen, Curtis Crane, Tyler Prescott, Tim Gregory, and Steve of course. Bishop Datin held the mike. (Jimmy and Camilla Joern were suppose to be there to be a part of the blessing, but they were on a cruise. Also, many other family members wanted to make it but were not able to)
The blessing itself was very special. For one, Steve actually annunciated (if you know him then you know this was a miracle) and he gave a very thoughtful and sweet father's baby blessing. Steve blessed her that she was privileged to be born into an LDS family and that she should take advantage of it. He also blessed her that she would be an example to others and that they would see her relationship with Christ and would want them same relationship with him. He blessed her with health through the Word of Wisdom and that by following it she would have all the health and strength she would need in this life. Steve blessed her that she would be a good young woman and that she should follow the Strength for Youth guidelines and principles. She was blessed to hold the principles of the church higher than the principles of the world. He blessed her that when the time came she would find a person that would make her happy and would uplift her. Steve also said that before the blessing he felt the impression to say that Addison would be able to read the scriptures and interpret them. He felt that he did not develop that until he was a little older, and he feels that it is something important for Addison to develop in her life.
That evening, we had a little celebration dinner and my parent's house. We had a wonderful meal and just passed Addison around for everyone to see and hold. It was a very special event of Addison's life and we're glad that we were able to share it with so many people.

More pictures!

Addison's all ready for church! Isn't it crazy that we can already put bows in her hair!

I love her facial expressions!

She's not too happy here. . . .

Every time I get up with Addison during the night, this is what I come back to! Gigi will be on my side of the bed and using my pillow! But, at least she always scoots over when I climb back in.

Thinking about going to sleep.

She loves to hold her mommy's hand.

Addison falls asleep anywhere!

I found them both asleep in my bed with no room for me!

Muffin and Gigi catching some z's in my bed- a lot more z's than I've been gettting lately!

This would be a bad time for Brynlee to poop her pants!

Is three company or is three trouble? It's hard to tell, but I do love spending time with my neices and baby Addison!

They sure are a handful!

Tyler offering Brynlee her first beer; what a great dad! :)

Okay, so I was trying to hold her to calm her down before laying her down to bed. But, instead, I fell asleep and this is how Steve found us a few hours later.

I always know she's REALLY in a deep sleep if she has her arms up like this.

Addison LOVES to sleep on mommy. I probably should be trying to break her of that. . .

Here is honorary Uncle Shawn holding baby Addison. He was just gushing over her!

She is pretty adorable!

I am posting some more pictures of Addison and Gigi. We have been having fun going to the lake, hanging out with friends, and going to church.

Although, I do have to say that this last week at church was not very fun with Addison. The Stake Center is undergoing renovations, so we are having church at the elementary school next to the Stake Center. But, now that it's summer, they are barely turning on the air conditioner! It is SOOOOO hot in that building, especially in the cafeteria where we have sacrament meeting and in the library where we have primary (I think it's becuase of all the bodies in the room heating it up). Anyway, Addison just started burning up at church and it just made her not happy at all. I finally had to go sit out in the hall with her towards the end of church to get her cooled down and calmed down. I don't know what we are going to the rest of the summer; we have lots of babies in our ward and I wasn't the only parents with their baby in the hall because of the heat!!! The leaders keep reminding us of the pioneers and how they wore 19 lbs. of clothing in the heat and they had no air conditioning, but it's hard to think about the pioneers while Addison is throwing a fit!

Home on the Range!

Parents will do ANTYHING to quiet down a fussy baby! Case and point: Addison always gets the most fussy between about 5:30-9:00 p.m.. The other night Addison was being just extremely fussy and it was driving us crazy! We could't figure out what was wrong! So, after changing the diaper, trying to feed her, giving her the pacifier, rocking, talking to her, etc. . . .I got so desperate that I decided to sing. The ONLY song that I could think of in that hectic, insane moment was "Home on the Range." So, I sing it through one time and it actually works; Addison starts calming down. I can only remember the first verse, so I sing it through a 2nd time and a 3rd time. By now, Addison is completely calm and is no longer fussing. But now, Steve starts laughing at me! So with the laughing and also not wanting to sing "Home on the Range" again, I try a different song. Addison starts throwing a fit!!!! So, I immediately go back to what is working. I sang "Home on the Range" about 12 times though (just the first verse again and again) and Steve kept laughing at me and I started laughing too. It was crazy, but it worked!
So, if anyone knows the rest of the song and would like to post it to me, I have a feeling I'm going to need it in the future. :)

Babies can't talk!

You may not find this funny, but I thought it was a funny little joke. So, last week I called Steve just to check in with him. This is the end of our phone conversation:
me: Addison wants to say something to you.
Steve (sounding interested and a little excited): What?
me: She can't talk stupid; she's a baby.

Okay, you probably had to be there, but Steve and I both laughed about it. We still joke around about what Addison is trying to tell us with all her cooing and little noises. We like to repeat the noise back to her; it gets her to start making the noise back again at us and it becomes a little conversation in Addison's language.