A Princess Tea Party

Here are Addison's 1 year pictures! We had a wonderful time meeting with Kristen Christensen at Fink Park and taking really pretty pics of our Addison! I accidentally put all these pics in backward order, so giving Addison the strawberry cupcake was the last part of her 1 yr. photo shoot. After eating some of her cupcake and smearing it everywhere, Addison was like, "now what?"

I wasn't sure how Addison was going to react to her cupcake. At first, she was very hesitant and just barely touched the frosting and rubbed it in her fingers. After trying the sugery frosting; however, she picked it up and started having at it!

She was feeling very playful. Steve did an excellent job of getting her to smile and play!

Laughing at her silly daddy!

I love her in this yellow tutu. I bought it months ago for her 5 month pictures- the tutu is actually for a size 0-6 months, but Addison is so small it didn't fit her till now!

Yellow is one of our favorite colors on Addison.

I love these pictures of her with all the greenery. I told Kristen I wanted her pictures to be very whimsical and fairy tale. I think she did a fantastic job capturing that!

Here is Addison with her frog. I wanted our photo shoot to be about princesses, tea parties, and the whole princess and the frog idea. These came out beautifully! This little frog is one of her stuffed animals from her room.

This picture is one of my favorites.

This is my favorite picture! I really think it looks like it's from a magazine; Kristen did an amazing job! I just wish her mommy was better at doing hair! Poor Addison!

Some of these pictures have a blanket underneath her. Addison does not like the feel of grass, so we started with the blanket under her and then decided to try and take the blanket away. She did just great without the blanket; I wish we had tried it earlier. These pictures are great, but I think the blanket takes away some of the whimsy.

I love this picture! She looks so sweet!

Addison was a little scared here. This was the first group of shots we took and the grass would every once in a while touch her when she moved, which kind of scared her. It was cute watching her trying very carefully to balance on her blanket, so she wouldn't touch any grass! She did get comfortable soon, so we were able to get some even better shots.

Addison has four teeth. Two on bottom and the two front ones are starting to come through.

This really captures my Addison. She is very sweet and always has at least a hint of a smile.

I even love her pouty face!

Holding her foot. Addison, even at 1 year, still does not fit her size 1 shoes! She just has tiny feet!

Food Launcher

I went to pick up Addison last Thursday; my mom was watching her while I was at work. My mom had a fun story to share with me. Mom's high chair is very similar to ours, but her high chair has this little cup with a teething ring that babies can play putting in the cup. Turns out that Addison realized that if she put food in the cup, pulled the cup towards her and then released it. . . .the food launches across the room! :) This also causes Muffin (my parent's dog) to go bounding after it! What a silly girl!

Where's my baby?

She has changed- just transformed- in the last week and a half. My little baby girl is trying so many new things and doing so many new things; I can barely keep up! I'm just going to list some of her newest things:
1. Tongue clicking- she loves to click her tongue. The other night, Steve and I knew she wasn't sleeping because we could hear her clicking away in her crib!
2. Pulling up! I haven't seen her pull herself all the way up myself, but Steve has seen her twice pull herself completely up!
3. Bouncing- Whether you're holding her, she's sitting on you, or even on the floor- she is bouncing and smiling away about it!
4. Clapping her hands- okay, she has been clapping her hands for a long time, but she she now can start clapping in response to you clapping. It's pretty cool!
5. Eating. . . dog food. Yes, twice today Addison got over to Gigi's dog food and got a piece of kibble into her little mouth. . .what can I say? Luckily, I was able to get it out of her mouth before she chewed on it, but she wasn't very happy with me taking it away.
6. Temper tantrums- Just yesterday, I saw my baby acting like maybe she was having a tantrum. This morning, after taking a piece of magazine away from her that she felt was food- she had a HUGE tantrum! For five minutes, she threw herself on the floor and cried and screamed. . .it was not fun. I was hoping we had a little more time before we had to start dealing with that kind of behavior!
7. Crawling- on her hands and knees! I really thought that she was going to be like her counsin Brynlee. I figured she would keep dragging her belly until she started walking, but she just woke up one day and started crawling on her hands and knees. Now, she is EVERYWHERE!

Other than that, Addison is busy growing her two front teeth (front, bottom) and loves to jabber all the time. She says "mama" and "dada" and makes the "ga" sound a lot. She waves at everyone and LOVES to give hugs! She feels very grown up when I let her play on the couch or on our bed, but she really doesn't like getting her diaper changed very much. She loves trying all different kinds of foods and likes going on our family walks around our neighborhood. Our little lady sure is special and we thank the Lord every day for having her in our lives!

9 Month Pictures!

These are Addison's last pictures without teeth! I loved her toothless smile!

These shoes are a size 1. Yes, they are on her feet, but they are still WAY to big!

Steve and I both wanted to get Addison a rocking horse for Christmas. I don't know why we wanted it so badly, but she loves it!

She loves her piano!

Isn't this picture so cute!

Addison was just barely learning how to hold herself up, so I'm glad we got her to do it for her pictures!

Daddy was making her laugh and smile. . .he is the best!

I am FINALLY posting Addison's 9 month pictures. . . a week and half before her first birthday. We were really late in taking 9 month pictures (she was almost 10 months) before we took them since Addison kept getting sick on us, and then when I got pictures I had trouble figuring out how to download such large files. But, they are awesome pictures and I hope you enjoy them. My favorite outfit is the green; I think she looks adorable! I also really enjoy the pics of her with the piano. She loves playing her piano and it is such a tribute to our family's love of music!

Saturday

I actually took these pics a couple of weeks ago, but I thought they were pretty cute!

We had an interesting Saturday. On Friday morning, Addison had eye boogers and I was thinking maybe she has another ear infection. . . By Friday afternoon, Addison felt really warm. By Friday evening, Addison had a fever. Saturday morning, still had a fever and I was pretty sure it was an ear infection.
So, Steve and I take Addison to the doctor Saturday morning. . . . double ear infection. I can't believe that in the past month and a half Addison has had a double ear infection, rsv, a single ear infection, a cold virus, and now she has another double ear infection! I REALLY can't believe that she was completely healthy up to 8 1/2 months! Here's hoping we can get our healthy baby girl back. I miss her!

After going to the doctor, Addison and I did some baking. I was tired of waking up in the morning and trying to figure out what to feed Addison. She liked eating these blueberry muffins I had bought, but I kind of felt bad giving her these processed muffins, so I decided to bake some myself. After about 3 hours, I had made some low fat pumpkin muffins, low fat blueberry muffins, and some low fat biscuits for our family to share. I froze most of them, so I will have to see how they do when I defrost them. Don't laugh at me for making these low fat; I just think it weird to give Addison food that she won't really be able to eat as she gets older. Also, if they are low fat then Steve and I can enjoy them too! Addison really enjoyed eating the leftover blueberries that didn't make it into the batter; I guess that is another food we can add to her list of likes!

Oh. . . hello!

This past week every time I go in to pick up Addison after a nap she has been sitting up! It gets me every time. . . the unexpectedness of it. I open the door and "oh. . hello!" She gives me her big toothless grin (not toothless for long) :( and then I pick her up and get my wonderful hug. I love that my daughter gives a hug every time you pick her up after she's been sleeping!

RSV, a Double Ear Infection. . .and teething!

Our little trooper! So, first it was RSV. Then, she had a horrible weekend last week where she kept getting worse! I was so frustrated and worried because she had medication, so why wasn't she getting better? Monday, grammy took her back to the doctor where we found out that all of the mucus she had caused a double ear infection.
Addison has definitely been fussy lately (which has been interesting as Addison is NOT a fussy baby), but she is definitely improving. At this point, we are only giving her the medicine for the double ear infection and little tylenol occasionally. The tylenol is actually for her teething, not because of any lingering fever. I can't believe she's been dealing with her first tooth coming in at the same time! But, luckily, Addison is improving quickly and right now it is mostly just the cough and a little mucus that is left.

First Tooth!

It's official! Addison has cut her first tooth. After months of wondering if she was teething, feeling gums, looking for white spots. . .I came to pick up Addison today and grammy told me Addison had her first tooth. I smiled and laughed thinking that grammy, like many others, had falsely seen a white spot or felt a false lump in Addison's gums. But, not this time! She has a very tiny, sharp stump that is protruding right in the middle of her bottom gums. It's exciting having her hit this little milestone in her life, but I will miss her toothless grins. I'm just sorry that Addison got her first tooth while being sick with RSV!

Addison and RSV

I can't believe Addison made it 8 1/2 months before getting sick the first time and now, only two weeks later, Addison has gotten RSV! I picked Addison up after school and noticed she had a tiny bit of cough; it wasn't until that evening that Steve and I began to be concerned. The cough seemed to be a little deeper and more frequent than when I picked her up in the afternoon. By morning, our little Addison was having deep, wet coughs.
We are lucky we have a grammy who was willing to take Addison to the doctor while mommy was at work. We are very lucky to have caught it so quickly. We have Addison taking her medicine and doing some breathing treatments to try and shake this as quickly as possible. I have already seen a lot of improvement. Here's hoping for a speedy recovery!