a few of my favorite things...

addie loves falling asleep anywhere...

and she loves loves little people - mostly cause they fit in her mouth...

and she loves loves loves her new highchair - mostly cause it means mom will let her play with a spoon....

but what she really loves to do - is move - fast.

9 months in, 9 months out

sweet adelaide,

there is nothing better than being your mom.

people ask me all the time, "how's addie?" and my truthful initial response is...

"she is the best, she is so much fun, i am so lucky".

in 9 months you have added so much to my life that i am still discovering something new everyday to be thankful for...and tonight i am going to list what makes me happy in honor of my friend meg who published her spectacular book based on the 'happy books' we all used to keep in college.

#1. the pile of bins downstairs - filled with what i can already call "your baby clothes"..

#2. when you sleep and your butt is high in the air

#3. when you snore, loud, just like daddy

#4. when you scrunch your face up at me - after you realize i am looking at you

#5. your one week of inch-worm crawling that is now a full blown crawl

#6. when you crawl over to me, pull yourself up, and stand in front of me, smiling

#7. your giggle from the backseat when i sing your favorite songs really fast

#8. when you have conversations with daddy

#9. all your new words..'uh oh' 'hey' 'ah-dee'

#10. your ability to copy sounds or movements...you are so smart!

#11. 9 months old in 18 month old shirts - just to get them over your head

#12. when you are crabby - all it takes is one of your songs to calm you down

#13. playing peek-a-boo with you and your endless supply of laughter with every lift of the blanket..its still the best laugh ever.

thanks laides, for making me sappy again.

love mom

where did the time go?

every once in a while i step back and look at my little lady and realize she is becoming such a big girl. i know she can't talk yet, or walk...but when she army-scrunches her way over to my legs and pulls herself up and smiles with 8 teeth showing - i can't help but think of how big she has become. i was once again going through clothes that don't fit her, and i found the hat we brought her home from the hospital in - i put it on her and it fit more like a jewish yarmulke...

she is so fun - i just can't stand it sometimes!

lucky ladybug

Fall-in-love

addie and her mama and her ladybug pumpkin...

Fall-0-weeeeen!!

addie wanted her pumpkin to match her costume - perhaps a new tradition?

so a ladybug it became...she did so well while mommy and daddy carved away until she started getting sleepy and almost fell asleep sitting up in her bumbo. we made sure to finish hers fast so she could approve of the final product. she loved touching the bottom of her pumpkin lid...

then she took almost a 3 hour nap so mommy and daddy could rake leaves and cut firewood and clean up pumpkin guts that had gotten everywhere!

she is itching to get into her costume! don't worry, there will be pictures...

to my growing lady

dear adelaide,

in 8 short months you have managed to turn my world around...i heard an interview with a new mom recently and when asked if she loved being a mom - she said "it's like my whole body just wakes up to love her". and i thought, i'm pretty good with words sometimes but that is the best way to describe how much i love you and love having you in my life. i remember every time i look at you how i thought i might not ever get to have someone as special as you in my life - and how i am filled with gratitude even in moments where loving you exhausts me.

and today, when it felt like a forever kind of day at school and it was only 10 am or so...i looked at a picture of you and everything got a little lighter. you do this for lots of people, grandma, nana, daddy, the ladies at your school, even strangers when we are out and about - you just seem to make the day shine a little bit brighter with your scrunched up sweet toothy smile and i love you for it!

you are getting so big, wearing 12-18 month clothing and of course the new winter hat we bought you was a 2T (no surprise). you don't love your veggies like you used to...but man, you would down a gallon of bananas or applesauce if i let you. you sleep with your bottom in the air which is freaking adorable and you still sleep anywhere...even sitting straight up. you are obsessed with buttons on anything - or tags - you stare at them intently and then dive in for the kill (sucking on them so hard i worry they will come off!). your 'fangs' are coming in causing you to twist the top of your mouth against the bottom making an awful sound...which obviously makes some of the pain go away. you are still hysterically funny and daddy and i just love listening to you tell us very loud stories. we think ourselves pretty darn lucky to hang out with you babe - you are 8 months of awesome.

things i can do that i now that i am a big 8 month old:

1. stand sometimes without holding on - this really freaks mommy out.

2. grind my top and bottom teeth together!

3. laugh to make others laugh along...

4. squirm and arch my back to show mommy its time to let me go and play...

miss emily said today at school that you are just itching to move - that you are watching your friends crawl around you and you are studying their moves to perfect your first one.