The life of a Queen!

Adah and I had a fun day outdoors today! This morning Christie, Rachel and Brennan came over and we all went to the pool....Brennan enjoyed it so much and was so relaxed that he fell asleep( you can see pics on Rachel's blog!) Adah on the other hand did not like the float but would rather you hold her and be her personal floating lounge chair!

After lunch and an afternoon nap Adah, Josh and I headed over to the splash pad with our friend Diane and her two kids! It was our first time at the splash pad....Adah seemed to enjoy it but I think she will like it more when she can walk. She also managed to get sunscreen in her eye so that didn't make for a happy girl! We took a few pics there but haven't uploaded them yet.

Professional 1 year photos!

This past Saturday we had Adah's 1 year photo shoot with Becky Anderson! I have several friends from CT that have used her as their photographer and I just knew that as soon as I moved back she was going to be our photographer for our precious Adah! She isn't completely done with them yet but has posted a few sneak peaks on her blog http://www.beckyandersonphotog

raphy.com ! There are all pretty cute...although I wish she was more of her smiley self in some of them! If you go to her blog Adah's are the first ones posted right now and then right below Adah's is another family but if you go one below them that is Adah's messy hands and face when eating a cupcake!

Enjoy! I'm going to try and pick out and post some birthday pictures tonight too on here!

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!