9 months old

On June 19, 2012, Gus turned 9 months!  Totally crazy!!!!  He is my big guy.  Here are some of the things that he is doing now.

• ARMY Crawling!  He is finally on the move so now it is time to get out the baby gates!!!  He gets up on all fours and rocks back and forth but then flops to his tummy.
• He can go from all fours to sitting.
• He is starting to try to pull himself up on things.  he gets to his knees and then gives up.
• He has a lovey.  A blanket with a monkey head!
• He is my sleeper.  Asleep by 8:30 and he gets up around 7. 
• He is beginning to wave good-bye.
• He loves the pool and bathtime!!!  The child loves to be in the water and splash.  He gets so excited!!
• He pulled himself to standing in his crib!
• Stats:
• Weight:  20 lbs. 11 ounces (50th percentile)
• Lenght: 28 3/4 inches long (70th percentile)
• Head: 46 cm (75th percentile)

Here are some Addison moments the last couple of months:

• Mom, I can't know words. ( when she doesn't know the words to a song or a book)
• This is my baby Isla, she was in my tummy for three years!
• Mom and I are girls and Daddy and Gus are boys.  (she is very concerned with this right now)
• Addison jumped off the diving boards at the pool all by herself (with her wings on)
• She loves to put her face in the water and try to swim.  She has a hard time and needs to learn to keep her rear-end up and kick.  She looks more like she is running in the water.
• After mommy completed her triathlon, Addison said to me "mom, I want to run a race."
• "Sippisippi" river (Mississippi River)

Summer

Summer is underway and we have already been busy!  I am training for a triathlon that I am not going to be ready for in two weeks.  Yikes, I am going to die!  We have been swimming a couple of times.  Addison is jumping off the board and is a wild woman in the pool.  Gus is unsure but seems to like the heated big pool in a floaty.  The baby pool on the other hand, he is not quite as fond of yet.  It is too cold!!!!  We got up north next week for Craig's (Ryan's bro) wedding.  At the end of July, we are going to be in South Carolina for a week.  It is going to be a hard long trip in the car with two chitlins so any pointers or advise is welcome!  It should be a great time when we get there. First experience for both of them of the BEACH!!!  We are going to be active this summer and I am so excited about it!!!  Happy Summer Everyone!!!!!

8 months!

Things I am doing:

• sleeping through the night
• babbling like crazy!
• I am very loud.  I like to scream!
• I am still a one napper, but my schedule has not been great the last few days
• Not crawling the traditional way but I get around
• I have two teeth on the bottom and one popping on the top
• I tried chicken for the first time this week and didn't need it pureed, mom just cut it up really small for me!
• I am standing next to toys but not pulling myself up yet
• I love my sister and cousin Carter!  They make me laugh!

March of Dimes

Team Lil Darlin'

The walk this year was a lot of fun.  Addison, Gus, Grandma, Papa, Auntie Jo,  Grammy, Papa Combine, Stephanie, Colton, Trenton, Jaxson, Lori, Callie, Jessica, Brenner, Ryan, and I braved the 47 degree temps, plus wind and walk for Premature babies (Laura, Matt, Carter, and Isla joined us at the end, she was probably the youngest baby there!).  The walk is always bittersweet for me.  I go thinking how blessed we are.  We have an amazing little girl who is spunky, smart, and active and then I think and see some of the things that could have been.  I watch people with shirts that say "A moment in our arms, a lifetime in our hearts" and I tear up.  I could not even imagine.  It makes me realize why I want to continue to do the March of Dimes.  Not only for our little miracle but so others can have little miracles too!  Thank you to all who walked and donated to Team Lil Darlin'

7 months old!

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Cool Paper!

 Favorite things:

• ADDISON!!!!!  He still loves his big sis more than anything.
• FOOD!  My kid loves to eat! 
• His thumb- I have a thumb sucker.  He is pretty picky too, he likes his left thumb over his right
• Hank and Daisy-  smiles all around for them
• blowing raspberries
• bath time
• toys (rings specifically)

Things I am doing:

• sitting up on my own
• rolling over both ways
• saying "ma ma", "da da"
• getting my butt up in the air and pushing myself forward but not crawling yet
• He is loved by all of the child watch people at the Y because he is so smiley and loves everyone who comes to talk to him.
• sleeps from 8:30-6:30 every night

I cannot believe that my baby is 7 months old already.  It is crazy around here right now.  Laura is due May 9th with baby number 2 but I think it is going to be earlier than that.  March of Dimes walk is next weekend.  Ryan and I are going to a Red sox vs. White sox game on Sunday for his big 3-0!  We are also going to Galena next weekend for a weekend away and the kiddos are going to the farm.

Easter weekend!

Busy, Busy, Busy for us. We started our weekend off at 5 AM on Saturday morning with the cops on our doorstep. The door to our van was left open. The paper boy called the police and they came to see if it was broken into or not. It was not so I must have left the door open or something like that! We had lunch with the Easter Bunny on Saturday afternoon and brunch on Sunday morning. Mark and Grete came to visit so it was one crazy but FUN weekend!!!

6 months!

Wow how time flies!!
Gus updates:

• he has found his feet and he loves his feet.
• He babbles all of the time!!! He is very loud and loves to hear his own voice!
• He can spit raspberries and loves to spit. ( It is so enduring when babies do it but when Addison does it, it is disgusting)
• He weighs 17 lbs. 12.5 ounces at 6 months (Addison weighed in at 13 lbs. when she was six months old)
• He is sleeping through the night and has been for quite some time.
• He is getting better at sitting up.
• We have moved him to the second level on his excersauser. I found a picture of Addison in the excersauser at about 7 months and she is on the first level and standing on a phone book. Gus is going to be taller than his sister sooner than later.
• He is rolling all over the place and is starting to scoot on his face. I turn my back and he has moved all the way across the blanket.
• He is starting to get two teeth on the bottom!

Addison stories

• She fell asleep while I was reading her books tonight. She has not done that for at least a year.
• She no longer takes a nap and is sleeping in her room all night long (she comes in to ours but goes back to hers with minimal crying
• She is hilarious and has so much attitude for a 3 and a half year old.

Addisonisms

• Hospital: has-table
• Freezing: Freezering
• Bandaids: Dandaids

Stories

• I let Addison check the mail with me and let her hold some junk mail. We got in the house and she looked at her mail and said "Bills, bills, bills, nothing but bills"
• We took Addison to the outlet mall while I was on break. She kept saying every thing was "only eight dollars" even Auntie Jo's Coach purse. (the woman at Coach didn't think it was very funny when Addison said that, Grouch!)