Adah 18 Months

Adah is 18 months old

22.2 lbs 17%

33" tall 83%

I love this baby girl so much. She is so busy and very smart. She gets into everything, and I spend most of my days following her around and picking up her messes. She's still a very light sleeper but yet a good sleeper. She goes to bed at 8:00pm and sleeps until 8:00am. She wakes up about half the nights for a bottle and diaper change around 5-6am and goes back to sleep. She also takes a 2 hour nap around noon. She always wakes up happy and  ready to go! I love that about her. Her favorite foods are: bananas, peaches n cream oatmeal, toast, pears, pancakes with strawberry jam, cheese, tortilla and cheese, marshmallows, and gold fish crackers. She has 3 bottles a day about 8oz each time. She knows how to sign: please, drink, more, baby, and book. She can say the following words: mommy, daddy, doggie, cat, cow, ball, shoe, nose, please, thank you, uh-oh, bunny, pooh-bear, drink, cheese, baba, binky, baby, book, blanket. She knows where her ears, nose, feet, hands, bum, eyes, mouth, and hair are. Her and Emmett like to run around while I vacuum and they are playing really well together. She loves to look at books, push her baby in her stroller, and help mom with house chores. She loves to dance with her dad in the kitchen.  She has little to no interest in tv. She runs on her tippy toes and it's the cutest thing! She looks like she might tip over at any minute, but gets around pretty quick. She loves her blankets and binky. She always is asking for them and carrys a blanket everywhere she goes. She also loves stuffed animals!

I love to shop for Adah and dressing her is my hobby. You practice your whole kid life dressing your dolls and being a pretend mom, and she's my real doll. I love being a mom. My life revolves around my kids and I eat up everything they do.  Bret loves them as much as I do and we could talk about our kids for hours.

Dad & Adah Oct 2012

I was getting ready to put Adah down for a nap and Ememtt asked to hold her, which he never does and she would normally never let him do. He was watching a tv show and I got the two of them comfortable and he held her until she feel asleep. Adah still likes to rub her blanket on her nose, and then she'll rub her blanket on your nose. That's what she's trying to do to Emmett in this picture. I love seeing my kids play together.  

Adah had to get her ear tubes put in again. One fell out and I wanted to get them fixed before the end of the year since we'd already met our deductible for her. She has had 6 ear infections since Jan, poor baby. 4 of those were before she got tubes put in last April. I just love these pictures of her in her hospital gown. We had to wait about 2 hours before Dr. Parsons was ready for her 15 min surgery. We walked the halls most of the time and there wasn't one person that didn't walk past her and smile, or say how cute she looked. She was the cutest little patient.

Adah 16 Months

Our baby girl is 16 months old now. She is the so so busy but also very happy. She has finally let me hold her for more then 10 seconds and has actually started laying her head on my shoulder. It makes me so happy. She is very smart and has started talking a lot more lately. Here are the words she can say: mama, dada, ball, dog, roof, cow, moo, bunny, nose, one, two, three, NO, uh-oh, blankie, binky, baba. She can also sign: more, all done, drink, please, and book. She loves to be outside, loves dogs(she gets all giggly when she sees one...it's adorable) She thinks I am her property and gets jealous/mad if I hold Emmett. She loves to sit on my lap. Her and Emmett are starting to play a little better together, but he still takes toys from her and tortures her at times.  He won't let anybody else take toys from her though! Funny how that works.

Somebody had some mad bed head after their nap.



busy girl

Getting ready to go swimming

This is the cutest thing I've ever seen. Emmett liked to hold Adah, and she wraps her legs around him and smiles the whole time. I have to help him because they both get laughing and Emmett usually tips over. He also gives her piggy back rides (which he calls an antelope ride???) and she does the same thing, wraps her legs around him and holds on for dear life.



She is so cute when she sleeps. She's a fantastic sleeper lately. We put her to bed at 8:30pm and she sleeps until 7:00am. I give her a bottle, change her and she goes back to bed until 9-9:30am. She's done this all summer and I love it. We have to be quiet in the mornings because she is a light sleeper if she hears sounds. She naps from 12:30-2:30 everyday.





Adah kept stealing Grandpa Calvin's hat and thought she was so funny. I love pictures like this. Grandpa Calvin is a terrific grandpa! I wish my Dad was around for me to have pictures with him and my kids.



Adah and her dad have a really special bond. He has always had a way to calm her down as a baby and he's been so sweet and patient with her. Earlier this summer Bret would turn on our iPod and those two would dance in the kitchen together to "Springsteen" by Eric Church. I washed our iPod again(opps) and so we didn't have one for about 3-4 weeks. I bought a new one and Bret turned on their song the other night, and she immediately put her arms around his neck. It was very cute and special for him. She was so happy and wouldn't let go of him as you can see in the pictures.

Adah 6 months

Adah turned 6 months old this last week. She is something else, and I just love her to pieces. She is very particular about who holds her or even makes eye contact with her. Usually it's only mom or dad who can hold her and it's been this way for several months. She is becoming more entertained by Emmett. She smiles when he talks to her. He still gets too close to her face or randomly decides to throw a toy at her. I feel bad that she is put through so much torture, but most of the time he just loves her and is wanting to kiss constantly. Emmett loves when he hears her cry from her crib and he asks me if he can go check on her.
She likes rice cereal and is getting closer to being able to sit up on her own. She goes to bed at 8:30pm and will wake up around 3:00am to eat and goes back to bed until 6:00am (eats again)and then usually goes back to bed again until 7:30am. Then she is only awake about an hour and a half and needs another morning nap for about an hour. During the day she likes to take naps every 2-3 hours and usually sleeps 1-2 hours at a time. She still takes 3-4 naps a day. I'm wanting to try to get her to take less naps but longer naps. I can't complain though cause she really is a good baby. I'm still nursing her but she is getting better at taking a bottle.

14lbs 13 oz = 26%
26 3/4 inches = 85%
I cant' remember her head circum but it's in the 33%.

She's been drooling an awful lot lately and I'm wondering if we'll see a tooth soon. Emily watched her the other day for me while I went running and Adah cried the whole time. Emily later said
"I'll watch Emmett for you anytime but I'm not taking Adah. Looks aren't everything!" Adah is beautiful and she does have a really cute personality that comes out more and more each day. I'm so thankful she's a part of our family.