Too Cute for Words - 2009 babies!!

First of all - there are just WAAAAY too many cute babies that were born in 2009, I mean SERIOUSLY!! Just within my family and Aaron's, we had the following 2009 additions on top of miss Addalyn:

Hunter Heydmann

Asher Mulvihill

Sadie Spindler

Kian Gauthier

Camby Gauthier

And among friends, of course, miss Ella Scheel, who I've mentioned on the blog - (Addy's BFF)!! Plus, so many others that I know of through different friends or from high school.

So, to say that Addalyn is the cutest, well, there's just TOO MANY (although she is pretty dang cute - don't ya think???!!!)

With that being said, I did decide to enter her in the local 2009 cutest babies contest, more because she never got a birth announcement so I wanted her to have her little moment in the paper!

To vote, click on the link: www.postbulletin.com/baby

Addy is number 179 :)

Ella Scheel is number 197, check out her cute pic on her blog (The Scheel Family). Good luck girls!

Eight is Great!

Not much new here for our little eight month old. She is still not interested in crawling. She has lots of tummy time, which she doesn't really like for the first few seconds, but you can usually distract her with a toy and then she'll be on her tummy for a bit. She has rocked back & forth on her hands and knees, and sometimes moves one leg forward when she's trying to reach for a toy, but is just not interested in putting much more of an effort forth. I'm thinking one day she's just going to start crawling, and be all over the place within an hour or something!

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We started introducing more foods to her - I mentioned in my 7 month post I was waiting for her to crawl. But, she was showing other signs that she was ready (she'd be mad when others were eating and she wasn't; doing REALLY well with her foods; and just seemed bored with her menu). So far she's eaten bananas, cooked carrots, cheese, puffs (cereal), yogurt for babies, and a sugar cookie :) Oh, and she LOVES biter biscuits (see picture below!)

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Addalyn is very vocal - she loves to 'talk' and says the sounds da, ga, ma, ba. I think there is more, but that is what I can recall her saying off the top of my head. She is also vocal when she disapproves - or if she sees her food/bottle but you are not getting it to her fast enough - MY GOODNESS! But, she doesn't disapprove of much (other than the lack of quickness w/ food!).

She is so fun - and it is amazing to see her learn new things every day. Which reminds me - she pretty much has the 'hi/bye' waving down, and she just started clapping. We are working on "So Big" (when you lift your arms over your head)...I think she might be confused though - sometimes daddy is saying "Touchdown" with the same movements...I don't think she knows what to do!!

Yeah, the poor bear got tackled this time!!

Nice try mom, I'm not going to do the crawling thing quite yet!!

Seriously - Biter Biscuits are DELICIOUS! They make me S-M-I-L-E!

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My shirt says it all... :)

Mama's Helper!!????

The other day Addalyn wanted to help me with the laundry! Such a little helper, starting so young :) I took a picture thinking it'd be cute for her 8 month update on here...

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But then.............

The next morning as I was getting her bath ready - I had left her in her room to play.

I went to check on her, and this is what I found:

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The little stinker was pulling all of our hard work out of her laundry basket.....

one....

by...

one...

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Uh-Oh! I'm busted!

Dear Vikings

We still love you!

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Well, it was a pretty disappointing loss the other day against the Saints...we watched the game @ my sister and bro-in-laws house with the rest of my family. At one point, Chad made a comment about what all of our blood pressures were in the room. UGH! ALL THOSE FUMBLES!

The most disappointing part of the loss, was that even Aaron was ON MY SIDE! On the way to Shannon and Chad's, I asked him if he was going to cheer for the Vikings, and he said no, because he does not like Favre. I said, I'm not asking you to cheer for him, I'm asking you to cheer for the team. Long story short, he basically said he wanted Favre to get hurt (dramatic maybe??!!). But, when Favre did get a little injured, he looked at me and said "It didn't feel as good as I imagined it feeling" - and by the end he was cheering right along with us!!!! He said he really actually gained some respect back in regards to Favre - so the night wasn't a TOTAL loss!!

Plus, I was studying for my PHR exam during the day, but Aaron did try and be a very supportive husband/daddy. He had Addalyn eat with only her yellow/purple spoon and he had her play with her yellow & purple blocks. I gotta say, I was impressed!

I still get mad when I think of how we lost the game for ourselves...but it was a good game to watch, and you can't complain about the season!

Super Bowl Sunday - here we come!!!!