5 months

Can't believe it has been 5 months already! Everyday is more and more fun with our little peanut! Adah is growing and changing everyday! She is learning so much and it is so much fun to see her discover new things! Adah is also getting more and more of a personality everyday....she is one high maintenace little girl!

Adah at 5 months:
-reaching for and playing with toys
-sitting for about 30sec. to a min all by herself(she still has no interest in rolling over)
-started rice cereal and LOVES it!
-laughing
-starting to nap in her crib
-LOVES to be outside(like she always has)
-traveled across country
-starting to teeth
-talking ALOT
-wearing size 2 diapers
-wearing 3-6 and 6 month clothes

I'm sure there is so much more but I can't think right now! I will post more if I remember!

We don't go to the doctor until Thursday but as of last week Adah weighed 15lbs 10 oz. I will know her height and percentile after the doctor on Thursday!

Here are pictures of Adah from the month of October!


I made this bow for Adah for a competition that she was in with our friend Kathryn's neice in CT. Adah of course won by a long shot! So as the winner she now gets to be baby Calton's girl friend!
Playing in her jumperoo...which she LOVES!

Chomping down on her fingers! (RIP pink and white paci.....It got eaten by Ringo!)

My smiling sweetie! I just love her!

The scared/help me face!

So sad!

All clean! My favorite time with her is right after bath...I think she is just adorable and so happy!

Hello! Tummy time is fun!

DJ A!

Her and that tongue!

"I love to play with daddy on the couch!"

Growing, Growing, Growing....

I know that I have not posted Adah's bear pictures in a few months but even though I have not posted them we do still take them. Here is how much she has grown and changed in the past 5 months!


1 week old

1 month old

2 months old

3 months old

4 months old

5 months old

Oh my have we been busy!

Wow! I don't even know where the time has gone! Adah is now 5 months old! CRAZY! I can not believe it! She is so curious these days! I will do a 5 month post on Adah and what she is up to tomorrow!

We have been crazy busy the past few weeks! Our friend Christie came to visit for a week back on the 29th of September and flew back to CT with Adah and I for our visit! It was nice to have extra hands to help out with the travel!

While Christie was here we did a lot of hanging out around the house and just talking and catching up...we also did a lot of walking around! The day Christie got in we actually FINALLY got Adah in for an appointment with the GI doctor...we had to go to his office in San Jose so it actually worked out good cause that is where Christie flew in!

I am so glad we went to the GI! I absolutely love the man! He checked Adah out and asked us questions about everything. He said that I was doing a good job with my diet and journaling....he wanted to do some more stool samples....and the last thing he wanted to do was to check Adah's butt one last time too check for a tear (the first ped said that Josh and I could check her for a tear b/c she didn't want to bother Adah.....the second ped checked but not too well)....sure enough he checked her and there it was....a Fissure tear!!!!! So you got it....I have been on this no dairy, no soy, no peanut diet for 38 days and she wasn't even allergic to ANYTHING! You have got to be kidding me! I was PISSED and glad at the same time! We asked him what we needed to do and he said that we need to loosen her stool.....my response was "How in the world do you make a breastfed babies stool any looser!?!?!?! I mean it is already like water!".....we now have to give her 1 tsp of prune juice 2x's a day mixed in with the breast milk. I thought it was kinda silly but let me tell you it WORKS! She has only bled 1 time since then and that is b/c we were out all day and didn't have a chance to pump and give her a bottle! God is so good! I prayed everyday that there wouldn't be anything seriously wrong with her! (Adah goes for her follow up appointment with the GI next week)

So...Christie was here for a week and then me, christie and Adah left for Connecticut! Adah and I had sooo much fun in CT! We spent a whole week there! We stayed with Rachel....who I can't think enough for purchasing her baby stuff around what would help me out while I was there! You are the best and I love you and miss you and can't wait to move back out there so our babies can play! I was able to attend OCF bible study on Wednesday and introduce everyone to Adah.....we had a wonderful shower for Rachel on Saturday.....and I got to see and introduce Adah to everyone at GHBC on Sunday! It really made me miss everyone so much more! I love my family there! We ate at a few of my favorite CT places...but my favorite of all was the last night....we had dinner with Momma and Papa Muck and Auntie Val! It was the best dinner every.....steak grilled by papa.....and papa's pasta salad, potatoes, green salad....not to mention the company was pretty good too!

Adah and I finally got back home to daddy yesterday and we were both EXHAUSTED! It was the worst day ever and crappy way to end such a great trip! I don't care to elaborate but will just say that I will NEVER fly across country with a child alone EVER AGAIN!

That is the quick and dirty update on us! oh....and while Adah and I were gone Josh did a lot of work on his thesis! Please pray for him that he can get it done and not get stressed!

I will be sure to post some pictures and an update on the peanut tomorrow!

Night!

San Diego Vacation : Day 2

Our second day in SD we went to the famous San Diego Zoo. I have ALWAYS wanted to go and again Josh got in free so we just had to pay for me to go. My friend Becca and her son Noah came with us for the first half of the day and then they had to get home for lunch and nap time. We ended up leaving when they did and went and got lunch at CHICK FIL A! For those that do not know that is the closest one to us now and there wasn't want near us in CT either. All you Texas people don't realize how many fast food restaurants you guys have! It is OUT OF CONTROL! I think Texas needs to learn from all the other states in that department and not have so many! Not that I don't like a good greasy burger or fried goodness every now and then! Anyway...back to the trip. After lunch we decided to let Adah take a nap in the air conditioned car so we went for a drive to check out SD! We drove....believe it or not.....over the Coronado Bay Bridge...SCARY.....to go check out Coronado since everyone said how pretty it was there! Not gonna lie...I wouldn't mind living there! I however would NEVER go back across that bridge often! After the drive we headed back to the zoo.....Adah woke up and I fed her in the car and she was good to go for another 3 hours! We headed back into the zoo and finished up looking around! We had so much fun in SD and were so glad to have been able to see our friends Becca, Jason and Noah! Here are a few pics from our day at the zoo!

Adah at the Hippo exhibit! She loved watching the Hippo swim!


The gorilla kept putting his butt in our face!


The Panda exhibit was crazy...you couldn't talk....and there were a lot of crazy obsessed panda people there!
The Leopard was my favorite!
Becca took this pic for us before she left so that we could have a family shot!

Sweet sleeping Koala!
RACHEL!

Taking a break to look at the trees!