Addie's Weekly Photo Week of February 17, 2012:
This week, Nana (Kristin's mom) moved out of her Chicago apartment and is in the process of relocating to the lake. While she looks for a place locally to live (near us and Uncle Dillon), she is going to stay with us to help out around the house and help us prepare for bringing Cooper home. The decision to leave Chicago came on very quickly and somewhat unexpected for my mom. Even so, we're thrilled that my she is finally going to make the BIG move and relocate so close to us.
Addie's Weekly Milestones:
Valentines Day - Tuesday was Valentines day. We really don't normally go all out for this specific holiday, but having kids changes things quite a bit. I decided to have Addie do a little paint project that I would later turn into a Valentines book for her to give to daddy. The project turned out really cute and of course Addison had a blast working on it (see pics below). In addition to the book, Addie and mommy gave Shane a box of chocolates and baked/decorated some brownies. Addison received a candy/balloon bouquet (hand-made by Shane), minnie pj's, and a mickey movie. I received a dozen roses, and my favorite carmel chocolates.
Daddy's Birthday - We celebrated Shane's 34th birthday on Thursday. When he came in for breakfast, mommy said "happy birthday daddy", and Addison quickly chimed in and repeated the same words. It was the first time we had ever heard Addie say "happy birthday" and it brought much warmth to daddy's heart before heading to work. In the evening, we baked a cake and his favorite dinner (rotel chicken). Addison loved singing and became really excited when we lit candles on the cake for daddy to blow out. We had a great night.
Lil Helper - Lately, Addison gets really excited about helping out. When mommy is doing laundry, Addison will run over to help put the clothes in or take them out and put them in the basket, all the while, reminding us that "I help!". Another way that Addie likes to lend a hand is by throwing things away. Whether it's her diaper or misc. trash, she is quick to run over and pitch in on disposal. It's both very cute and VERY helpful! :)
Painting - For a crafty Valentines gift, mommy had Addison use finger paints on several large sheets of paper that were taped to the floor. Although Addie can be a little finicky about being "messy", she did really well with the paints and the gift turned out really cute.
New Bed - We bought a toddler bed this week and set it up in Addie's room. We aren't in a huge hurry to get Addison out of her crib because Cooper will be in our room initially, so we are leaving the crib up and just placing the toddler bed in a different part of her room. Our main goal is to slowly introduce her to trying the "big girl" bed, and let her start using it when she's ready. Addison was quick to get on the bed when she first saw it and laid down saying "night-night", playfully.
Vocab - Her new phrases and words continue to crack us up daily. Here are just a few new ones.
"What are you doing" sounds like "wha-doin"- She says this quite often and it usually goes "hey ma-ma....wha-doin?". It cracks us up when she asks us and we are quick to answer her question to keep conversation. I don't think she understands a word of our replies, but it's still a cute way to interact.
"Awesome" sounds pretty much like it should - She picked this up from one of her shows and says it mainly when watching the show but will sometimes repeat it if one of us say it.
"mama too?.....Dada too? Minnie too?" - We weren't 100% sure what she was saying the first few times, but realized that it was her way of including others in whatever she's doing. For example, if we're reading books for bed and she's sitting with daddy, she will decide to include mommy by getting up with the book and walking over to mommy saying "ma-ma too?".
I Love You "waaahhh-wuuuuuhhhh-wooooo"- We've tried so many times to get her to say this, but it's about the ONLY thing we weren't able to get her to repeat, until tonight. There are so many things that warm your heart as a parent, but hearing your child say I love you is about the best thing to a parent's ears!!!
Baby #2 Update:
Weekly Checkup: At my checkup this week, I had mentioned to the doctor about a pretty severe itching all over. The itching would be worse at night and on my hands and feet. My doctor did blood work and found that I have Cholestasis. Apparently it's somewhat related to the gallbladder issues that I reported earlier in the pregnancy. Symptoms include itching among other things and complications can include stillbirth. The doctor has prescribed Urdisol to help regulate the bile and mentioned that I can take benadryl to help with the itching. Doc doesn't seem to be overly concerned at this point and said an extra precaution will be that we take weekly blood tests to monitor my liver levels and weekly ultrasound and baby stress-tests. Will keep everyone posted though.
More Pictures from the week:
Wearing a light-up heart necklace that
Nana sent to Addie with some valentines candy.
Chillin in the car with Mickey
We haven't had much snow this year but
Addie was finally able to enjoy about a foot
of snow that fell this week.... and quickly melted the next day!!
Cousins Blake and Avryl came over to enjoy the fun!
Addie's Valentines outfit
Celebrating Daddy's birthday. Addie kept saying
"more birthday... more birthday" to get us to
continue singing the birthday song again and again!! LOL
Reading books with Nana and cousin Avryl
Addie's new toddler bed
She took my socks off and asked me
to put them on her....
You can't tell from the picture, but
she was really excited about these socks!! LOL
We were returning Nana's moving truck
and Addie got to ride along.
Addie working on Daddy's Valentines gift
Doesn't look to messy now, but wait!
She's just getting started!
She had a blast painting!!
And perhaps just as much fun cleaning up!!
Trying new hair-styles this week.
I couldn't believe that Addie let me
put her hair up like this!
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