9 Months and Growing :)

9 month stats:

Weight - 19.6 lbs (64%)

Height - 28.3 inches (73%)

Head - 17.8 inches (82%)

Our little girl is 9 months...crazy! For some reason, that seems old to me, like you may as well round it to 1 year. But, I'm not quite ready to start referring to her age in years (although I HAVE started to think about ideas for her b-day, and I have the cutest theme in mind!!)!!

Little miss Addalyn still isn't interested in crawling, however, she has made huge progress in this area and Jessica (daycare) and Aaron think it is a matter of days/weeks. I am not getting my hopes up...because she also just learned that she can roll to wherever she wants to be. The little stinker.

I will be honest and say that I have been VERY nervous about the fact she isn't crawling. Aaron tells me that I shouldn't worry - and my response is, I'm the mom - I'm SUPPOSED to worry! (right??!!) I sorta expected it by this age, so I was worried that there might be something wrong. But after talking to several people and doing my own research, I have learned that there is no need for concern. I do know that some kids never crawl -- but I have also heard that is not very good for eye coordination, so I hope she does crawl for a little bit, even if it is like a week!

She is starting to pull herself up on furniture, and she loves to stand! She's definitely starting to figure things out...the other day she was awake from her nap but happy, so I just waited a bit. When I went in there, she had figured out how to sit up on her own, which she hasn't done since she doesn't crawl --- and she had a toy in her hand that is usually on the opposite end of her crib. The interesting thing was she was in the center of the crib, not near the edge.

Addy still only has her 2 bottom teeth. She does REALLY well with eating with just those 2 teeth. We discovered this weekend that she LOVES blueberry waffles!! :) She pretty much enjoys anything you put in front of her (EXCEPT the jarred stage 2 meets...that are ground up). She gags at those and looks at you like "really, you want me to eat THAT??". I don't blame her...they don't look or smell very appealing!

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She is very vocal, as I mentioned at 8 months. Says da, ga, ba, ma sounds and mumbles lots more. She has the cutest little wave goodbye, and the tiniest little giggle. I have no idea how to explain it -- but it is definitely her daddy's giggle. I've tried to get it on video, but everytime that thing comes around she stops doing ANYTHING exciting and just stares at the camera with amazement...so a lot of our videos are of her staring at us as we sound really silly trying to get her to do her fun new things!!

My new cheesy grin I do for mommy when the camera is around...and my 2 bottom teeth!

I love playing on daddy's shoulders!

Addy LOVES mirrors!

The first thing she does in her excersaucer is check herself out in the mirror!

Addy also LOVES shoes...everytime you try to put them on her feet...she wants to play with them instead. Yep, DEFINITELY MY GIRL! She also has a good collection of shoes for a 9 month old...don't worry though, most of these are hand-me downs so I didn't go buy all these shoes for her!! These are the ones she wears most often and are always hanging out by the stairs for when we want to go somewhere.

She has small feet so far -- still fits in a size 2, although she's getting close to moving to a 3.

Winter Wonderland :)

We took advantage of the nice snowy weather a few times this winter. Our niece Brooklynn and nephew Hunter had a combined birthday party at the end of January at my mom and dad's house. You guys saw the ice skating rink they have in an earlier blog post - but they also have a good hill to sled on, and lots of snowmobiles, so it was the perfect place to have such an event!

Aaron was working on our basement during the day, but Addy and I spent some time outside. We used a sleigh that my mom has...and it is REALLY old (an awesome antique)! Over 100 years probably - my grandpa said that he can remember his mom pushing his brother in the sleigh when he was a child...and I'm not sure if that was the first generation of my family that used the sleigh. It's pretty cool!

I bundled Addy up and pushed her around in that for a bit...

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The antique sleigh :)

Then we had my dad pull us in the cutter behind the snowmobile. She was not happy at first, but then Addy settled in and just enjoyed the ride!

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A few weekends ago we also went to my parents cabin. My parents are finishing the basement of the cabin - with all the grandkids coming along, we have outgrown comfortable sleeping arrangements! So, we all went there and helped them stain the basement walls and trim...and then enjoyed some R&R. I have some other pics from the cabin that might get in another post - but here is Addy enjoying the winter wonderland we live in again!

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Mommy and Addy in the cutter (I had Aaron get off of the sled to take this picture so you could get an idea of what it was...)

Going on the lake!! See her little smile? She was enjoying herself!

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Daddy and Addy outside after the snowmobile ride!

My New Ride!

A few weeks ago we switched Addy from her infant carseat to a convertable one. It's nice and not nice all at the same time...if she falls asleep, we can't just carry her in anymore - and I worry more about her being cold because I can't bundle her up with blankets before we head outside. But, all in all she seems to like it!!!

Playing with the carseat before daddy put it in mommy's car

Here we go! My first time riding in my new seat! I love her look here, I feel like she's smiling all cheesy as to say "Seriously mom, you're taking a picture of this!!????" (and yeah...she's right...sorta silly to take a picture of this. But this is the first of many rediculous pictures I'll take to document her growing up! -- isn't that what mom's are for??)

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!!!!