The Handley Family: Weekly Update

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We left on Wednesday for Vacation (May 25th). The start of our vacation was in Arkansas where we pick up Shane's parents and an RV. After a few stops along the way, we ended up in San Antonio. It was a really exciting trip! I have a few pictures (below).

Milestones: Week of May 27th 2011 (56 Weeks)

Crawling Up Stairs- I've put Addie on the stairs before and she will pull herself up one step and then just sit. This week though, she crawled up the entire flight of stairs from the lower level to the upper level of the house!! She crawled up pretty quickly too. When daddy got home from work, we just had to show him. Sure enough, she crawled up again!

Saying "up"- I think she's been saying this for weeks, but we just haven't seen the connection. Since she was about 5 or 6 months old, we say "up" before we pick her up. Now, we are noticing that she says "up" when she wants to be picked up. She does it most with daddy. I think she knows he will cave the most :)

Eating- We are still feeding Addie baby puree' since she doesn't have teeth to mash anything up. Addison is eating at least one full jar per meal now. Sometimes she will go through around 1/2 of another container. She's not extremely picky about the baby food either. We've fed her almost every baby puree there is! The only thing she isn't to fond of is the "oats" or "yogurt" combinations. It's awesome to see her eating so well!

Front Upper teeth: We are starting to see two little white dots on her upper gums! FINALLY....TEETH! I thought I would be sending our daughter to college with baby food one day. It's so nice to finally see something coming through. It's nearly impossible to get a picture of them because of how small they are, but as soon as I can get a better glimpse of them, I will post a pic on here.

Cabbage: WARNING....NOT FOR THE WEAK TO READ......Mommy is in the process "drying out" since we aren't giving Addison breast milk anymore. This process is anything but comfortable! Thursday though, I had a few people tell me to try cabbage in my bra. Of course I laughed and thought people were crazy but I was at a point where I was ready to try ANYTHING to relieve some of the pain and discomfort. I was showering with my bra on because I knew that if I took it off, I would proabably collapse and die from the pain! LOL
Day one of cabbage, my chest was at a size DD and felt like someone had put rocks under my skin!!! The cabbage seemed to cool my skin and help a little bit with pain. I was wearing the stinky leafy vegetable ALL DAY LONG, switching to new leafs every few hours.
Day two of cabbage, my chest was a little less tender. I'm starting to smell like stew and extremely embarrassed to go out in public! I wore cabbage again all day long switching to new leafs every few hours.
Day three of cabbage, I can actually touch the top of my chest without insane amounts of pain! The only way I can explain what is happening is that it seems like everything is "settling to the bottom" of my boobs. The bottom of my breasts are still pretty firm, but the top seems to be going back to normal. I was able to put a normal bra on (size C). "Wore" cabbage only in the morning and in the evening.
Day four of cabbage, I think I dropped another cup size in one day!! My C bra is actually loose on me! My chest feels pretty normal. Addie of course finds the tender spots when we're rolling around and she kicks or hits me by accident, but overall I'm not in noticeable pain. I only wore cabbage for two hours today.
Day five. I didn't wear any cabbage today and I'm starting to smell less like a rotten stew (LOL). I am feeling so much more....normal! My shirts are all loose on me and I am in NO pain at all!! PHEW!!!

More Pictures from week 55:

Hanging out at Uncle Dillon's