Cousins in Red White and Blue

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Day at the Pool

This sure beats the North Ogden Pool and Lorrin Far

She kept attacking this towel... it wasn't ours. She really liked it.

Today we went to the Folsom Aquatic Center with the extended family. Adeline was so brave. The pool has a beach entry. She just kept wanting to go further and further in. I am amazed at how small she is, and how curious and excited she is about new things. Best parts Parker going down the slide, and me trying to coax him to do it. Tanner kept coming and asking to give Addie a hug. Poor Jacob fell... walked back over to me to tell me all about it "I fell" and then he gave me a hug. My favorite is how obsessed Adeline was with the towel. I had a towel, but she just kept walking down to this one. Oh and she loved to keep crawling over to the drain (which was so gross). She was inspecting it, and everything in it. Fun Swim Day.

Using the Walker

A day in the life

This is how she likes to sleep

Asleep again in the highchair

She's out like a light

This is what happens when I try to take pictures

Her checking out the celery

How I found her after I changed a load of laundry

She Climbs

Who knew... We were at my sisters and Adeline heads for the stairs. Keri says can she go up I say oh no way we don't even have any stairs. Then she proceeds to go up all the stairs. Hmm she knows how to do tricks I don't even know about.

First Tooth

So it's finally here, it is the bottom center tooth on the left. 

The Fountains

Happy girlie having fun

Squinted eyes... with a crinkled brow

Tanner taking her back in for more

Crawling back in the water

What she looked like when we got home

We love the fountains... it is a fun water park at the outdoor mall. She loved crawling around inside the water. She got squirted in the face once, and then I held her hand as we walked around. Even after she got squirted in the face she still wanted to go back in and touch the ground where the water comes out. She was very curious about it. I think she's really brave the water was really powerful, and she wanted to be right in it. I left for a bit, and she did great for a while, but then got super sad. She just wanted her mom nothing was making her happy. My sister got a taste of what having four kids is like two that were crying for part of the time while I was gone. So any advice for the separation anxiety? She recovered, and then she played some more and loved watching the water show. She wanted to jump right in it. Fun times!  

A walk in the Park

She's loving to stand up next to anything... especially at the park. She likes the ladders, and the pretend rock walls. She will pull herself up, and watch everything and everyone. She still loves that bark. She snuck one in, and then clenched her mouth closed so I had the hardest time getting it out. I don't know if all kids like to eat the bark or just mine yucky. 

A few fun Photos

My sweet girl

She loves to stand anywhere

Asleep in the highchair again 

Her most favorite thing- to stand

Swimming

 

We had a family swimming event. Adeline loved it. I took her once before and was just going to dip her feet in. I didn't even go to the pool prepared to get in. Once I dipped her feet she couldn't get enough. She was really brave, and just would kick her little feet. I was with my friend Kate, and she was nice enough to take Addie in. She had a super time. Tim had been excited to see her swimming for himself. She was hilarious. She would try to drink up the water where it seeps through the floaty. She loved swimming she kicked her feet and had a great time.

8 Months Old

This month she's learned how to officially crawl on all four. She is also pulling her self up on everything, and learning not everything supports her weight. So lots of head bumps. She loves to read stories she'll sit in my lap for a good 15 minutes and listen, and look. However, she does have her favs. It makes me laugh when she grabs a book rolls onto her back, and turns the pages looking so intently at the book... she'll talk while she does it too. The funniest is when she rolls over and puts her legs in the air for a long period of time. It looks like she thinks she relaxing. She can also cruise around holding onto the furniture. She has liked to sneak into any crevice of the house we may not want her into. She also discovered the little door stop things, and loves to flick them. She thinks it's really funny.

Her bath time is one of the highlights of her day. She kicks her feet and pretty much squeals, and I seriously can't get her in quick enough. She swims around the tub like a little fish. She kicks her legs when she's on her belly, and her bum is shaking it's too funny. I don't know how she does it. She wanders into the bathroom throughout the day, and pulls her self up to the tub, and then looks at me like mom let me in. If I don't put all of her toys in the tub she knows, and wants to get them out of the bag. She loves it when I blow dry my hair. I sit on the floor, and she has to be right next to me. She likes to touch it, and the cord. Her other favorite thing is to pull herself up using the toilet to help, and then pull stuff out of the trash. She dangerous, and funny. If we tell her to bounce she'll do it usually. She'll still say ma ma da da, and waved bye bye. She eats finger foods, peas, squash, sweet potatoes and rice are her favorite. 

Sleeping in the Highchair

Too funny... she was eating one second the next out. This has never happened before. I thought it was hilarious. She was chewing up some finger foods, and then I look over to put more on her plate and she's out. I gently wiped her off, and put her to bed. Has this ever happened to anyone?

Waving Bye Bye

Check out how cute she is... I hope it lasts. I was feeding her dinner, and waved at her and said bye bye. Next thing I know she's waving back at me. I called for Tim. He couldn't believe it. He said, "Wow she's a sponge!" Then I grabbed the camera.

Dangerous

Since yesterday Adeline can now pull herself up. Last night she was playing with a basket of toys having fun, and I look over and see her standing up. She's adorable I love her determination. Then today everything is different she is dangerous because she wants to pull herself up and stand. However, she's still a little tipsy. Tonight I started her bath had her on the floor, and when I looked up she was standing up ready to get in. While I was in shock because not only did she stand up she went up a step, and was standing up looking in the tub. What happened to my baby... she's becoming such a big girl. She really wants to do everything.

Adeline's First Easter

My favorite memories of Adeline's first Easter are: watching her in the grass with all of her cousins. Addie's our little character full of sour faces. She was just simply a princess today. Easter really is such a special day. It was fun being in on Tim's lesson today. He teaches the 7 year olds turning 8, and they were so funny. They loved every little thing she did. When I say loved they were just so cute. She touched my shoe. She ate the paper Sister Thompson... which she really did do she's so quick. We had such a fun time at the Herlehy's after church. The food was delicious. We had a fun Easter Egg Hunt she liked chewing on them and the basket. It was fun to spend time with family and friends in the nice weather. Tim said she was a winer today.

Happy Easter

Santa Cruz

Addie's first road trip, and first trip to the beach. She absolutely loved watching the water, and playing in and eating the sand. I know bad Addie. She'd catch me off guard, and then I'd catch her shoveling the sand in. She was amazed taking everything. She was wonderful in the car on the way there. She mostly slept. We got there had a BBQ. Then we let her discover the sand. She ate it up. We then went for a walk along the beach. After that we went to get a funnel cake, and shaved ice. Yummy! On the way home the drive was a bit more difficult. She didn't fall sleep very long. She screamed when the sun was in her eyes, she was exhausted, and sick of her seat. We hit a little traffic, and that was not good... it's always better when the car is moving for our little angle.  However, she loved wagon wheels... they saved the day. When we made it home we were all really happy. Adeline loves being at home. She is extra happy at home. What a fun day.

7 Months Old

Adeline is growing into such a little girl. She is at a super fun stage. She can scoot all around, and she's much happier now that she can do that. Now she wants to stand up. She loves books.   She said ma ma first, but when Tim got sick we worked doubled time on da da. She had it down a couple days later, and hasn't stopped saying it. She has gone on a da da rampage. Now she only says ma ma when she's winey, or tired.

She is still a tough one to get to laugh. However, it seems that Tim and his family are the most successful. Especially William she is so interested in him. She tends to cry when Great Grandpa Buhler talks to her. She loves watching kids play especially her cousins. She loves being at my sisters, and watching the boys. I think she loves being around people. I also thinks she likes it when there's a lot going on. She loves going for walks, and laying on the grass. She also likes the wood chips, but I have to watch her she likes to eat them. 

She loves when you blow on her belly. She likes your undivided attention. Everyone still agrees she looks like her dad. My sister and Mark said Jackie isn't Tim's twin Addie is. She has his personality, and looks just like him. My sister can't get Adeline to laugh.  I really do think she has Tim's personality she's pretty calm, but she can get angry. She likes her little movies. She eats carrots, sweet potatoes, and today we're trying yellow squash. I've been making it, and it has been super easy and very cost friendly. 

She's so happy when she wakes up. I love her big smiles she gives. She drinks from a sippy cup. Still will not take a bottle. She stopped at four months, and has refused ever since. She hasn't take a pacifier since she was about three weeks old. She started refusing it. She's a bit stubborn. I am not sure where that comes from. So to sum her little personality up she's happy, calm, stubborn, curious, loving, and spontaneous. We sure do love her!

Conference

Adeline was amazed by the Choir at conference, and when President  Monson spoke. She's so small and she already gets it... amazing. I love her eyes. She would just stop what ever she was doing and watch.

She Says Da Da

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Tim at Mercy Folsom Hospital

Poor Tim had been complaining about calf pains about a month ago. He had an ultra sound and they found nothing (he thought he had a blood clot). Well he started having shortness of breath, and was coughing up blood. We checked Web Md, and it said it could possibly be a blood clot in the lungs. So, we called his mom whose an advice nurse. She said nothing was wrong, and then Tim told her she'd be sorry if he was dead the next morning. He is a bit of a complainer when it comes to pain so I didn't take him seriously until he coughed up blood. However, he wanted to go play basketball. So I tried to figure out how much pain he was in, and told him that if he was really sick not to go play basketball but go get checked out. He went play basketball got home and was in major pain. I was fast asleep. I guess during the night I told him to stop moving around when he was in extreme pain, and trying to get comfortable. 

Next thing I know he's telling me he's going to the ER at 3:30 AM. So, I tell him make sure you go to the right hospital. ER visits can be expensive, and even more so if you go to the wrong one is what I was thinking.  He's been very healthy... so we haven't used the insurance. I didn't think he was really in much pain. I went right back to sleep. He calls me at 7 AM and says, "Nicole I am really sick." Then he says he's going to throw up so he's got to go. Hmm Now I'm curious what should I do. I take Adeline to Beth's and go to the hospital. I hadn't called anyone because I didn't want Tim to be embarrassed when the Dr.'s said nothing was wrong. His sister called, and so I let her in on everything (she's a nurse). She didn't actually think Tim had anything wrong with him either she said oh he has some mystery pain.

Then the Dr. comes in and says okay we figured out what is causing you so much pain... you have three small blood clots in your lungs, and we found on the EKG you have a heart problem as well called WPW. Now I am bit shocked to say the least. To sum everything up Tim was in the hospital for 5 days. He is no longer going to be able to play basketball or other contact sports. He also can't have any caffeine. However, he's alive which we are grateful for. We all felt pretty bad for not believed him, and I am so glad he knew his body and got checked out. We still have lots to figure out, but he's home and doing well. The worst part right now is he's had this horrible allergic reaction and has an itchy rash all over. He takes Bennadryl for it and it nocks him out. We are so glad he's home now. I promise I will take him more seriously even is he is a complainer.

Addie laughing at her daddy

She Scoots

Wild Wednesday

Three Cousins

At the park... She was very interested in the bark

The zoo at the library ... She was very curious

We've had some really fun days this week. Adeline can totally scoot. She loves well it's a frustrated love- getting on all four. The frustration comes in when she can't go anywhere. It's so fun to watch her explore. She rocks back and forth trying to figure out what to do next.  She loves her cousins so much. It so fun to see her watch them. She was also in love with the wood chips, and the bunny at the library.

A Few of her Favorite Things

Spin Spin A Letter... She loves it 

         Relaxing watching a Baby Einstein 

               Having those fingers in her mouth                                   

    Getting Stuck when moving backwards

Dirty Face From the sticky ball ... this picture doesn't do the dirty face justice

      From her most favorite sticky/slimy ball

Six Months Old

Adeline is at such a fun stage right now. She is loving to play peek-a-boo she will giggle when her dad does it. She also likes patty cake. She coos and talks a lot still. She can sit up by herself now. She can scoot backwards, and go in circles. She eats rice cereal, and usually likes it a lot. I love the scooting because I'll put her down somewhere, and then look for her she's some where totally different usually stuck under our couch or on something else that go in her way. She loves going on walks, and playing with her toys. She is pulling hair, and eye glasses. She loves to put my hair in her mouth. She also is very interested in faces eyes, nose and mouth mainly. She will stare at your face for a while inspecting it. 

She takes cat naps. Which are confusing because sometimes she seems fully rested and other times she wakes up irritable. So, there are the challenges of this age we are working to teach her to soothe herself to sleep. We've made some progress ... I think I am just learning what works for us and what doesn't. I read so much information about a topic I get confused. So I've read Baby Wise, Healthy Sleep Happy Baby, What to expect the first year (healthy sleep), and researched the Ferber method. She was nursing three times a night... now we are down to one or two if you count the ten o'clock feeding. I've also read a lot about giving the first foods a lot of the information contradicts each other. Some says feed the rice cereal after you nurse. I've read the complete opposite is better. I am sure after the first child I will have figured out what works a bit better, but I now each child is different. Every day is a new adventure. Even though sleep has been a bit of a challenge I love when she is done sleeping. I love getting her out of her bed holding her talking to her, and enjoying her sweet smiles that bring so much joy.