The Handley Family: Weekly Update

Week Of August 24, 2012

Addie's Weekly Photo

Cooper's Weekly Photo

This week, mommy's Aunt Cheryl, cousin Robin and her kids came to visit. I'm not sure what Addie and Cooper are going to do with the summer is over and we don't have company over all of the time. They enjoy having people over so much I think they will go through withdrawal!!! I took Addie to her first Fair (the MO state fair in Sedalia). Daddy stayed home with Cooper so we wouldn't have to take our little guy out in the heat. The fair was a blast! Addie rode the Carousel, Cars, and Train and we played lots of games. More pictures to come! :)

All about Addie

Sitting through Movies: Addie hasn't ever had a problem sitting through a short cartoon like Mickey or Dora, but when it came to movies she didn't seem to have the attention span. This week, on several occasions she sat through movies without getting up!! Her favorite right now is probably Toy Story. We bought her a ride-on for her birthday in May that has Buzz Lightyear on it and she will get really excited when Buzz comes on the screen in that movie.

Sings to self: Addison LOVES to sing to herself... or to us! She will sing anything from nursery rhymes to theme songs in her cartoons. It is definitely music to our ears when Shane and I hear her. We sing a clean up song any time we're picking up her toys to put them away "clean up, clean up, everybody everywhere....". Addison likes singing that song and will get excited about cleaning up just so she can have a reason to sing it!! LOL

Queen of the Chickens: Whenever the chickens are roaming the property, Addie will run around with them. They must like her most because she's small and not as intimidating because they seem to go right up to her when she's running around. They will go up to her shoes and peck at the straps too. At times though, Addie will decide she wants to see them run and she will flock her arms up high to scare them or throw things towards them. It surprises me that they keep going back to her!

Potty Training: On Thursday we started Addie back on potty training. I'm going to hold off and post more on our next update so I don't jinx our progress!!

All about Cooper

Holding Bottle: Coop has been holding his bottle for a while now but really never held it longer than a minute or so. In the last week though, Cooper can practically feed himself! He still fidgets quite a bit at times and we will need to get the bottle back in his hands but overall he can hold it for most of the feeding on his own.

Formula: In the last week, we have been slowly introducing formula into Cooper's diet. In addition to his regular feedings of breast milk and solids, he gets one scoop per day of infant's formula. We started this for a few reasons. For one, it's been difficult for mommy to keep up on a pumping schedule. Another reason is that Coop is reaching 6 months of age and it has always been a goal of mommy's to get her kids breast-milk at LEAST until the age of 6mo's.

More Photos From the week:

"Cause I've got one hand in my pocket...

and the other one is tormenting CHICKENS!!"