The Handley Family: Weekly Update

Addie's Weekly Photo:

Over the weekend, we went to Uncle Floyd and Aunt Maggie's Farm over in Arkansas for the family's annual camp-out. We brought along Nana, Uncle Dillon, AV, and Blake. It was especially nice because we didn't have sleep in our car to avoid the cold this year since Uncle Dillon had his camper. The weekend was a good time and a nice breath of fresh air from the chaos we've been handling with the home buying/selling process. I tried to take lots of pictures from the weekend (below).

We close on our house on Friday (the 28th) and there are a million things to still do. Addison has been a trooper as we pack many of her toys. She finds boxes to play with or crawls in and out of empty cabinets. I will do my best to keep up with the blog, but we will need access to internet as we will be staying in a hotel from Wednesday the 26th until the closing on the new house (Tentatively November 4th). Will do our best!! :)

Milestones Week of October 21st (76 Weeks):

Vocab: Lexi (Shane's niece) was able to get Addie to say "lu-lu" which is Lexi's nickname. I think it came out more like "WooWoo", but still cute to hear! Addie seems to enjoy trying to say just about any word you ask her to.

Diapering: Addison was going through a phase for a while where she would kick and scream every time we would change her. Since she needs a new diaper 5-7 times a day, it was getting pretty tiring for all of us!! Lately though, it seems like she avoids the tantrum as long as you sing to her or ask her questions she knows (where's your belly, etc.).

Tantrums: I know all toddlers go through these but I figured we could document them anyway :) lol We have a little tantrum baby!! I thought it was just Addie being clingy, but it's looking more every day like it's just her little way to release some energy. If Addison has her sights set on walking somewhere or doing something and we pick her up to take her elsewhere, she FREAKS!!

Sleeping: As we posted before, Addison was having a bit of trouble falling asleep at night. I chalked it up to her trying to cope with the chaos happening around our house lately. It seems like she's back to normal now though. She has been getting up a bit earlier than usual (6:30 instead of 7:00) but she still sleeps until 7 or 8 at times. Our movers come on Wednesday to load up all of our belongings and take them to the new place and we will be in the hotel for about a week. Lets see how the sleeping goes then!

Baby #2 Update:
Size: I'm now between 19 and 20 weeks along and definitely showing! I am MUCH bigger than I was with Addison.
Sonogram: We had our 20-week ultrasound on Friday. Daddy wasn't able to make it to the last appointment so it was exciting for him to see our little Cooper for himself. Coop was definitely proud to show is daddy that is is in fact a BOY! ha ha Doc says everything looks great. I will get pics of the sonogram on here as soon as I can.
Kicks and flutters: I am feeling a TON of flutters and kicks lately. I've been feeling flutters from the inside of my belly, but hadn't really felt anything with my hand on my belly until Friday. It was really exciting to finally feel him kick my hand :)

More pics from the week:

Strolling the grounds