A few weeks ago we were getting Addie ready for bed, and she became fascinated with her belly button. So we got out the video camera and filmed her showing off her tummy. Be warned, there is some baby nudity in this video. Sorry this video is so long, but there is a little bit of everything in there: Funny Face, Sad Face, Cute Face, “awesome”, “bye bye”, kisses, etc. It really shows her personality. We hope you enjoy it! We’ll try to do more videos in the future, just not this long:)
For those of you who don’t know, I have a secret passion for photography. I don’t talk about it much because I don’t think I am that good but I really love doing it. A few years ago my in-laws gave Andrea and me a DSLR for Christmas. Since then I have been enthralled with taking pictures and reading lots of photography blogs to learn more. I have been wanting to improve our photos for a long time and since photography is one of the areas where you definitely get what you pay for I have been looking at new lenses. The problem is the lens I want is $1,300 . Ya you are right, that is a LOT of money. So instead of spending the money on it I have just been lusting over other peoples equipment and dreaming about a big promotion to pay for my hobbies. This weekend I rented this dream lens to give it a little test drive. I thought I would share some of the photos we took over the weekend. Sorry that most of the photos are of Addie, but she is the only model I know.
After Bath Time
Making Faces
Funny Face
Sweet Girl
Necklace
Look a Tree
Dressed to the Nines
Little Shadow
Look Birdies
Playing House
Just the Two of Us
Daddy and Addie
Clap for my Song
As you can see from the number of photos that I felt were worth of sharing on the blog I LOVED the lens. I guess I will have to start saving those pennies until I can afford my own. I hope you enjoyed all of the photos as much as I liked shooting and editing them.
Adelyn’s current favorite things at 15 months of age:
1. Hiding things from Mommy. Zac was asking for some Neosporin a few days ago, and I had just seen in the day before, but it was NOT where it was supposed to be. I couldn’t find it anywhere! Later that day, I saw Addie pull it out of a drawer in the spare room closet. Also, last week I handed a Chip Clip to Addie to play with, and 30 seconds later, it was gone. I didn’t know where she had put it. I looked all around the kitchen, all to no avail. Today, I watched as she climbed into the cupboard with all the pots and pans, and retrieved the Chip Clip, and played with it for awhile. She sure knows how to stash the goods where Mom can’t find them!
2. Two word phrases! She is starting to string words together, especially when she really wants something. Her newest phrases are “More grapes,” “Bye Bye Grandma,” “Thank you Mommy.” So simple, but it is so fun to see her associate words and phrases with things she wants.
3. Grapes. Obsessed doesn’t begin to describe her feelings for these little purple treats. She is in love.
4. Songs. She LOVES the piano and whenever we go in that room she says “Song, song, song” over and over until I allow her to play with me. Also, she now knows that the computer can play songs too (iTunes), so she asks for songs whenever I am at the computer.
5. Babies. She has been obsessed with babies since she could say the word, so no big surprise there. She loves to look at pictures of babies, on the computer, my phone, her baby album, on the camera, on the walls of our house. I had to hide her baby scrapbook because she was tearing it up, she was looking at it so much. Maybe she loves babies, or maybe she just loves to look at herself. Vain baby.
6. “Play”. This is what she says when we’re in the family room and she wants me to turn on the TV. Zac and I got Super Mario Wii for Christmas, and she loves to watch us play it. She gets to hold her own controller, so she loves feeling like a part of the game. But now she thinks that every time the TV is on, we’re going to play.
7. Elmo. Why does EVERY kid like Elmo so much? Is it his silly voice? Or the fact that he is a red furry puppet? Or the fact that his name is easy to say? We watched an Elmo movie with her one day, and she hasn’t let me forget it since. I could have a nervous breakdown thinking about how many times I’m gonna have to watch Elmo for the next few years. It’s starting.
How can you NOT enjoy the snow? Living in Dallas, we only get one or two days per year when it snows (more often it sleets instead). That is the way I like it. And this little girl seemed to have a ball in the snow! I didn’t have a snow coat for her, so I only let her out there for a little while, but here is our attempt at bundling up and enjoying the snow.
We spent the weekend in San Antonio, where it was nice and warm (50s and 60s). Juliana was singing in the Texas All-State choir! Good job Tootsie, we are proud of you! We had a good time walking along the River Walk, listening to Juli’s choir sing, and following Addie as she ran all around the downtown area. If you are going down there in the near future, ask us where NOT to eat, because we never had a good dining experience. (Except Fogo de Chao, which is always awesome, I assume).
Needless to say, Addie’s nap schedule has been crazy off, and I’ve decided that this week, we’re just going back to 2 naps per day, since she seems so tired all the time when we try to do one. I think I was trying to push her a little to hard, and maybe doing it a little more gradually will work better. Maybe next week, when Zac’s home and I have my sanity back:)
For a few weeks now, Adelyn has been resisting her morning nap. But I’ve been holding onto it because I love having two breaks during the day where I can get stuff done. Sometimes she’d just talk to herself for 45 minutes in her crib, but I didn’t want to go down to one nap quite yet.
This week she started sleeping in later in the morning, causing us to have to push her morning nap back about 30 minutes, so I just decided that she might be ready to go down to one nap per day. So far, it is not going well.
Day 1: Adelyn wakes up at 8am. Yay! I decide that today is the day for one nap. So we eat breakfast, play, and go to Going Bonkers with some friends to kill some time until “naptime”, which I’m not even sure when it will be. Probably sometime around noon, I think. So after we get home, we eat lunch, and I put Addie down for a nap, which she resists. Maybe she’s overtired. Or maybe she’s just 15 months old, and that’s what she’s supposed to do. She sleeps for an hour and a half. Well, that’s okay, but that’s how long her naps were when she had 2 naps per day, equalling 3 hours of sleeping. Oh well, I’m sure she’ll learn how to sleep longer than 1.5 hours soon.
Day 2: Again she wakes up at 8. Good job! Zac is out of town, so mommy gets to sleep in with Addie this week. We go to the mall this morning to play on the playground there with some friends. She is pretty tired by the time we get home, so she goes to bed around noon again. Once again, she sleeps an hour and a half. Hmmmm, maybe it wasn’t a fluke last time. Or maybe I still need to be putting her down for another 1.5 hour nap. We’ll keep trying.
Day 3 (today): Wakes up earlier this morning: 7:30. What am I going to do with her for 4.5 hours when it is SNOWING outside?? Yes folks, it has snowed all day here. Which is fine, if I had any sort of snow gear for her to wear. Which I don’t. Which means we cannot go outside. At all. So I put her down a little early, 11:50am. I’m confident she will sleep at least 2 hours, she is really tired. 12:25, she awakes, screaming. Really? 35 minutes today?
I went up to soothe her twice, and right now (12:55), she is quiet, so I’m praying that she fell asleep. The poor girl needs her sleep, and her poor mommy needs her to sleep. I can’t imagine why I am doing this while Zac is out of town for 2 weeks straight (in Hawaii no less). Lucky him. I’m sure we will get through this transition phase just fine, but right now I’m doubting, just a little. Wish me luck! We want to see less sad baby and more of this:
