Chatty Cathy!

...Or Addie, at least! This weekend, Addison surprised us by saying TWO words! She now says "dog" and "cat!" They are her first two words, not counting "dada" and "mama," which she has had for a couple of months now. And she definitely understands that they are associated with the animals! Now, whenever Hops comes in the room, she yells "DAW!" And whenever she sees a cat (like the three at John Michael's parents' house - one of which is ours, Cleo), she says "CAH!" It is SO cute, and very exciting!

More pictures on the way!

Two posts in one weekend!

We had lots of fun this weekend! We had two visitors - Aunt Katie and Aunt Jen! Addie had met Aunt Katie before and was very happy to see her again! We all had lots of fun shopping on Saturday! Katie is one of my best friends from college and it is always good to see her! We always have so much fun talking and laughing about a little bit of everything! Jennifer and I became good friends in college, too, and I had so much fun catching up with her! Thanks so much for coming to visit us :) We love you both!

Just us girls

Then tonight, Lynn, Kris, and Holland came over for dinner right as Addie was getting a bath. So we just had to do the obligatory bath shot to hang on to and embarrass the kiddos with later :) Enjoy!

But Mom, there is a boy in my bathtub!

Nine months...kind of late!

Well, now that Addie will be ten months old this week, I thought it would be a good time to give her nine-month update! Ha ha! Her checkup with Dr. Hood went great! Dr. Hood is very impressed by Addie's movement (and jumping :)) and with the progress her ears have made. She had a hearing test and all is well - that was good news, although we weren't expecting otherwise. We also found out that Addie is a petite little princess - she was 16 pounds, 13 ounces, and 26 1/2 inches long. That is in the 25th percentile for both! Dr. Hood said she is doing great though, and is just petite - she said it's not like John Michael and I are large or anything :) She did give us some pointers as far as feeding her, and said that pretty much anything we eat, she can now have (within reason). We are having a difficult time "brushing" her teeth though, because after her last round of medicine, she will NOT open her mouth for anything but food anymore! So I can't even brush with my finger. I'm sure she'll grow out of that, but tonight she bit me to keep my finger out - hehehe (no, it wasn't so funny at the time...).

Here are a few pictures from this month. Most of them are from feeding, because that's when she's at her cutest! We use that little plastic booster seat as her every day highchair - a friend of mine clued me in that the highchair I had was a pain to deal with on a daily basis (due to having to wash it because it gets so messy) so John Michael and I decided to give that to my parents and purchase this one for around $20. What a great buy!

I took this one to show off her hair - she had yogurt on her hands and decided to pull her hair out on the side and the top...think Jim Carrey in Ace Ventura :)

Mmm...spaghetti!!!


"I sure do love bath time! Check out my cool green earplugs!"


"Mom, do I have something on my lip?"


"I love my wagon...

...but do you think I could get out now, please?"