As you can see, Santa is not yet Addie's BFF! Talk about a death grip on my arm when we got close! I can't say I blame her though - strangers aren't her favorite normally, much less a big stranger in a red suit with a long white beard...
:-)
Just for fun, here's last year's...
(Too young to know she should be worried, I suppose ;-))
Yesterday was Addie's eighteen-month checkup with Dr. Hood! It went a little differently than her past checkups. This time, as soon as we started to go back with the nurse, Addie stopped right in her tracks. John Michael had to carry her back to the exam room. Once we got in there, she clung to me for dear life! I'm pretty sure this is because last weekend, we had her flu shot. I'm guessing she realized what was to come (as she was scheduled to get her last hepatitis shot yesterday)!
Anyway, Addie weighed in at 21 lbs, 9 oz. and 30 3/4 inches long. STILL a peanut! She continues to hover around the 20-25th percentile in weight and 25th percentile in height. Again, Dr. Hood said she is doing great, growing well, and staying on the growth curve well!
So, very unlike herself, Addie wailed the whole time Dr. Hood was checking her out! She has never done that, but at least Dr. Hood laughed it off by saying that at least she's sure her lungs are doing great :-) She was a little fussy all week long - I attributed it a phase and beginning tantrums of the terrible twos. I even pointed out to Dr. Hood that her tantrums were becoming frustrating. Then came the bad mommy part - Dr. Hood checked out Addie's ears and it turned out her left one was VERY infected. :-( She had not been herself, and I didn't even think about her being sick! She had a slight fever last weekend, but it was right after her flu shot, so I just thought it was that! I was wrong. I felt so terrible, thinking my poor sweet baby has been in pain for God-only-knows-how-long. Boo. Her left tube has come out (which is normal - they're supposed to last 6 to 16 months, and this one stayed in about 6 months). Dr. Hood said that if after a course of super-duper antibiotics the ear doesn't look better, then she will recommend reinsertion of the tube (this is her second infection since the tube fell out about two months ago). At this point, I'm up for it, as they really made all the difference in her health, and her hearing is definitely something I don't want to mess around with...I'll keep you posted.
On the bright side, Addie is already back to her happy self today after two doses of her medicine. She did not nap today and was STILL running around giggling (maybe she was delirious - either way, she was fun!)! And, I got a fair amount of her Christmas shopping done today with Lynn, which means that all I have left is EVERYONE ELSE! I feel so far behind... :-)
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with Mimi & PawPaw & Gigi and have also enjoyed spending time with Uncle Nate & Aunt Rissa this week, too! We hope to have our Christmas decorations out by the end of the weekend. And speaking of Christmas, we had a visit to Santa on Wednesday evening - our second annual Addie & Holland trip. I'll have to scan the picture, but in the meantime I'll spoil the surprise and just say that it is ADORABLE!
Here are a few from Thanksgiving at my parents' house...
"I loooove my rocking chair!"
I was trying to get Addie to laugh by sticking out my tongue, and instead, she decided to copy me.
Okay, so I'm a week late, but last Saturday Addie turned EIGHTEEN MONTHS old! Can you believe it?! Obviously, I can't. :-) Anyway, being the huge birthday person that I am, we decided to celebrate Addie's half-birthday! We had Lynn, Kris, Holland, Leslie & Skye over to watch the UT/Arkansas game, and celebrated with a half-cake! The funny thing was to see Addie & Holland using forks to eat their cake instead of just digging in with their hands like they did six months ago.
Time has just flown. I can't believe it was a year and a half ago that Addie was born. And I know I say it at each stage, but this is truly the cutest stage that she has been in. She is talking SO much and loves to "chat" on the phone and also loves to sing to herself in the morning before we come get her out of her crib. She is becoming more shy (shier?) but she's also warming up to people more quickly than she used to (if that makes sense). She loves to read books and uses them to postpone bedtime whenever possible. She is just TOO precious! We are getting so excited about celebrating the holidays with her!
Addie's 18-month checkup is this Friday, so I'll post her stats after that. But I'm pretty sure she's had a decent growth spurt since her last appointment. She's now in all 18-month clothes (as opposed to most of her 6-9 month clothes still fitting her at her 15-month checkup), and today we went shoe shopping and she is now wearing a 4 1/2 (still little, but JM & I both have little feet) - and the last pair of shoes we bought her were size 3 (oops!). I'm excited to see how much she has grown!
The half-cake! (Thanks for the help, Lynn! Love ya!)
"My nap was way too short!" (Look at that cute cheerleader outfit!)
"Mmmm...cake..." (Still half asleep - Holland was more animated, but I'm a bad photographer and the pics I took of him are blurry. Probably because he was more animated. Hehe.)
So I realized that I haven't recently blogged about some of the cute things (I know, I'm biased) Addie is doing lately, so I thought I'd take the time so that I have them written down whenever I get around to that baby book :-)
knows all of her animal sounds - but her favorites are "ssssssssssss" for snake, "dack, dack" for duck, "ha ha ha" for dog, "booooooo" for cow, and "oooo eeeeee" for monkey.
always has to have a book and knows which her favorites are!
shakes her finger whenever she sees the "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed" book
asked Gramma to "read, please" last week
when I asked her to "hold on for a moment, please" she said "I hold on." TOO CUTE!
is really catching on to the whole potty concept (no, we're not pushing it, but we did buy her a potty to sit on!)
is learning & using even more sign language (more, hungry, outside, thank you, please, all done)
always has to have shoes on
always has to have Mommy (awwww!)
does NOT like to have long sleeves on, but...
loves to have her jacket on
shakes her head no profusely when we ask her if she's ready for night-night
still loves bath time
likes to run around naked after bath time!
loves to be outside
throws tantrums often (and is cute even then)
is not a morning person!
loves the dog and doesn't understand "gentle!"
TONS more cute stuff that I can't remember right now!
I'm realizing that I should do this daily...maybe I'll start that. But here are some more pictures and a cute video:
They were getting along great til Addie tried to climb on Hops...
As a matter of fact, she is trying to eat the grass.
Addie makes sure the tomatoes are okay for us to eat:
We have had a great past few weeks! We celebrated my birthday on 10/24, which was lots of fun! I got to celebrate that weekend with my parents on Friday, and then with Lynn & Kris on Saturday. We had a blast! We started off the afternoon by Kris taking a few pics of the kiddos in their Halloween costumes. Then, we went to California Pizza Kitchen and then wandered around the new shopping area at Green Hills. After that, we went to a Predators game! We had a blast. Addie was a little nervous about the crowd, but I think she was just a little skittish because she had just fallen and gotten a boo-boo on her nose (I'll post a pic). Holland had a great time, though, and cheered enough for all of us!
Halloween was awesome! Both sets of grandparents came over for dinner and to help us greet our trick-or-treaters. And Addie was the cutest little pumpkin fairy ever! She LOVED the shoes and headband to her costume (so much, actually, that she has been wearing them around the house for about a month - all we have to do is ask her if she wants her pumpkin shoes and she is thrilled!). She didn't like the costume itself so much, but looking at the pictures - can you blame her?! Anyway - here are some pics! The professional ones are by Kris.
Kris decided it'd be cute to get some of the babies together...
That lasted a long time...
Then off came Addie's costume!
We also carved some pumpkins last week!
Addie's not so sure...
What IS this thing, Daddy?!
I'll just read my books instead... (and a closeup of her boo-boo :( )
As you can see, Santa is not yet Addie's BFF! Talk about a death grip on my arm when we got close! I can't say I blame her though - strangers aren't her favorite normally, much less a big stranger in a red suit with a long white beard...
(Too young to know she should be worried, I suppose ;-))
(Too young to know she should be worried, I suppose ;-))
