The Handley Family: Weekly Update

Addie's weekly photo:

Addie's weekly milestones week of September 16, 2011 (71 Weeks):

Walking - Every week, we try to help encourage Addie to walk without holding on to things. We're not pushing things too hard because we don't want to discourage her or annoy her with it. This week we made HUGE progress though! Daddy and mommy were sitting several feet apart on the floor and would see if Addie would walk to each of us. She took 3-4 steps and then would fall into our arms. It was a really exciting moment for all of us!!

Beautiful Baby - I'm sure every parent would say the same thing about their child that I'm about to say about Addie, but it feels like we get compliments on her constantly! It seems like every place we go, people go out of their way to stop us and tell us how beautiful she is. Of course we think she's adorable too, it just makes us smile to hear it from so many other people! Since birth, I've been encouraged by MANY people to enter Addie into modeling or put her photo into a contest. I've really never gotten into that sort of thing but caved this week. I entered her into CuteKid.com (sponsored by Regis and Kelly). It's a long shot, I'm sure because I read that there are over 4,000 entries per month but at least we can say we finally entered her into a contest!! :)

Saying "mmmm" when taking a bite - I couldn't remember if we had ever posted about this before but it just gets funnier! When Addison first takes a bite of something she will go "mmMMMMmmm" (with a high pitch tone in the middle). It cracks us up every time!!

Social butterfly - When we are out in public, Addison will wave to people wether they are looking at her or not. She gets a kick out of seeing how many people she can wave at. She doesn't necessarily want other people to engage in conversation with her, but doesn't seem to mind as much if they wave. It's really funny because if she's in a shy mood, she will wait until she can't see a person anymore and THEN wave to them! Too funny!

Books - Addison LOVES story time right before bed/nap. We started a pretty set routine recently and she has caught on. Daddy will say "do you want to go read your books" and Addison will repeat back to him "boo....booo". Addie will help turn the pages and point at pictures. When we get her up from her naps, she will point over to her book shelf and say "boo" hoping that maybe we'll read them when she gets up too!! Cute! :)

Baby #2 Update:

Sore Boobs!! I had this when I was pregnant with Addison but it seemed to start much earlier the first time. Basically in the last week, I think my boobs have tripled in size and they are sore as heck!

Showing: It seems early, but I'm starting to show a bit of a baby bump now. It seems crazy to me to be showing so soon, but I've heard that it's normal to show earlier in your second pregnancy.

More pictures from the week:

A few of the books we read to her before nap/bed.

Her favorites are between "8 Silly monkeys" and "Peeka Who"