ONE YEAR!

I'm about a week and a half late but better late than never! Well...as most of you know my sweet little Adah Mae turned 1 on May 12th! I feel so "like everyone else" saying that it is hard to believe and that one year went by so fast....but it is so true! She is getting to be such a big girl! We had lots of family in town and had the best first birthday party a little girl could ever want....like she will EVER remember but it made me happy! Ha! I have been so busy lately with planning her party...getting her well....and family being in town....and now Adah and I are headed to Houston tomorrow for my college roommate reunion weekend! I promise to post her 12th month bear picture along with pictures and details of the big birthday party! Right now I will just stick to what she has been up to lately developmentally:

She had her 1 year well baby check up on her birthday(I know we are mean parents)....she weighed in at 22lbs and was 29inches long!

What are up up do today:

-points to anything she wants or that is hers and then to herself
-favorite number is 8
-favorite letters are I and B
-loves bananas, string cheese and ANYTHING we are eating
-started to walk with her hands on the ground instead of crawl
-size 3 diapers
-size 6-12 and 12-18 clothes
-can wear a bow in her hair w/o a headband....but no longer likes them...makes momma sad
-loves to entertain with her MANY facial expressions
-had an ATTITUDE and knows how to throw a tempertantrum with the best of them
-if you ask her what a cow says she will moo and then smile
-can stand on her own w/o holding on
-if asked what a coyote says she will howl
-if you ask her where someone is that isn't around she will raise her hands in the "i don't know" position
-has 8 teeth
-had her first fever of 104+ and trip to the ER and rash

My little sweet potatah you have grown and changed so much in the past year! This has by far been the best and most tiring year of my life and I wouldn't change it for anything in the world! You are my everything! You make me happy to get up at 6am just to see your beautiful smile! I love how happy you get everytime you see your daddy and how much fun you have playing with dada! You never meet a stranger and you make everyone you meet smile with your silly faces and contagious smile! You are beyond perfect! I can not wait to see how much you change and grow in the years to come! I thank God for you everyday! Ma-ma loves you soooo much!

Poor sick baby!

Adah got her first real fever yesterday! We knew she wasn't feeling well since this past Thursday...she had been occasionally pulling at her right ear...but we didn't want to rush into assuming anything...boy were we wrong. Friday night Adah may have gotten a total of 2 hours of sleep...the poor thing screamed all night but her tempature(rectal) never went over 99 (which is not a fever in a child this age). Saturday she started to get a REALLY stuffy nose and then Saturday night she wouldn't sleep again and would wake up and randomly grab her ear screaming. She acted fine during the day but still had a runny nose but then Sunday night her temp went up to 102 so we decided that we would call the doc and try and get in first thing this morning! When she woke up this morning she had a fever of 102.3 and luckily we were able to get into the doc today at 12:50! Sure enough our poor little sweet potatah has ANOTHER ear infection! Luckily it is only in one ear this time...but she just got over one less than a month ago! We are very pleased with the doctors here and the fact that they seem to actually care which you don't really hear about with military doctors...although we have been more pleased with our military pediatricians than the civilian ones we had at the beginning! The doctor today put Adah on a stronger medicine (augmentin) than the amoxicilian that she was on for the other two. She also wants to check Adah again in 2 weeks and if she still has an ear infection then she wants to send her to an ENT. We are hoping that it gets better and she doesn't have to go to an ENT! Today, Adah has been super attached to mommy and daddy and when we took her temp before bed tonight it had gone up to 104.2!!! We attempted to put her in a cool bath but that didn't last long....when we got her out and wrapped up and got her dressed she started to get chills! My poor sweet little thing! I so wish that there was something I could do to make it all go away! I hate to know that she is feeling so bad and that there isn't much I can do to help her! I wish I could just crawl in her crib with her and snuggle all night!

Here is our little sick potatah passed out while we wait for medicine!

Splash Splash!

Adah decided not to take an afternoon nap today but was happy as could be until we decided to head to dinner with the Caltons. Luckily she did fall asleep in the car and took a 30 min cat nap...better than nothing. She was perfect all through dinner and even afterwards while we walked around Mystic for a little bit. I think by the time we got home around 7 she was delirious by the time we got her into the tub. I had so much fun playing in the tub with her tonight...not that it isn't fun everynight....but tonight she was so giggly! Luckily Josh had his phone upstairs on him and was able to catch some of it on video!

Hope ya'll enjoy this as much as we do....Love this little peanut to death! I just can't get enough of that little laugh!

Cat toys, bath toys and training!

Adah is quite the mess...she is into pretty much EVERYTHING! We have made it a point to try and limit the "baby proofing" and teach her what she can and can't touch or get into. She definitely KNOWS what NO and YES mean....although she is OVERLY DRAMATIC when you tell her no! For the most part she is doing pretty good at listening to us. Now we are just trying to teach her patience....especially when it comes to sitting in her highchair waiting on food....the girl LOVES to eat and when you put her in the highchair she expects to be fed right that second or she will let you know how she feels. So we are trying and hoping that soon it will work for us!

Here is Adah playing with some of her new favorite toys....the cat toys!

Adah is so much fun in the bath now.....her favorite letters by far I and B! I think she loves her self and her boyfriend Brennan! HAHA!