Headed South!

Well not quite the south but it will do! Two weeks ago we packed up our things in Connecticut and headed south on 95 to Virginia! This will be our new home for the next 6-9 months. Josh is back to a boat(submarine) and they are currently in the shipyard in the Norfolk area of Virginia. He is going to be the Engineer (Dept. Head) on the Tennessee! Once they are out of the yards it will head to its home port of Kings Bay, GA....and will make it our 4th move in 2 years or less and it keeps getting harder and harder each time! Leaving friends....Adah leaving friends.....and not to mention adding a toddler and soon an infant to the moving mix.....whew....I get exhausted all over again just thinking about it!

Adah had changed SOOO much since my last post! Her vocabulary is AMAZING! She is one talkative little girl and from the time she wakes to the time she goes to bed I swear she never stops talking! She is super independent, demanding, and HAS to have HER way! She is really into throwing, dropping or knocking things over and saying "oops! I drop it!" We try to teach her that when she does it on purpose it isn't an "oops"! Her other FAVORITE thing to do is yell for JOSH! That's right she doesn't call da-da anymore just JOSH and SCREAMS it! She will lay in her room or anywhere for that matter and yell for JOSH! I must admit it is one of the funniest things EVER! We are having so much fun with her and love how much and how fast she is learning! We are really afraid however that she is NOT going to welcome her baby sister with open arms! It will definitely take some work for her to adjust to ma-ma giving attention to someone else!

Our newest little peanut will be here before we know it! I have already been told by my new OB here in VA that I am not allowed to travel cause they want me near by and coming in every 2 weeks for safety since I had mild pre eclampsia with Adah. The new doctor did do a sonogram last thursday and she looks perfect. She is measuring right along with my due date so hopefully she won't gain too much wait between now and then! :) I go to the doctor again to tomorrow to meet one of the two delivering doctors in the practice and once I meet both of the doctors (one male, one female) I get to choose who I want to be my delivering doctor! A plus (in mine and Josh's mind) is that this office doesn't let you go past 40weeks and so once I pick my delivering doctor they will go ahead and put me on the schedule for and induction btw 39 and 40 weeks! I know some may think I am crazy for being excited about being induced but I know how horrible it is bc I was induced with Adah....plus being so far from family and being in a new place with out your close friends it is better for planning purposes....not to mention Josh will actually be working so it will be easier for him to take time off to be there! I kinda hope she comes before 39 weeks but at least she will be here by her due date and the first of the year when Josh gets SUPER busy with work! I know many keep wondering and asking but NO we do NOT have a name for the sweet little girl yet! We have been so busy and haven't discussed it much lately and honestly it is my fault because I am the one that doesn't like any names this time around! Josh has a name he likes but it is too close to being popular for me and I just don't like common/popular names! Hopefully she will have a name before she is born but who knows!

Here are a few pictures from Halloween last night:

checking out the candy in her basket

Ready to go get some candy!

admiring the cookie she got to decorate! Of course it has her favorite on it....candy corn!

She was not going to smile for anything!

Sweet little lady bug face!

We let her eat half of the cookie...to say she loved it is an understatement!

serious about her cookie eating

This one made it in by mistake...but this is Adah's last morning with her 4 best friends! They moved to Hawaii and boy does Adah miss those 4 sweet girls!

making sure mom and dad didn't take any of her candy!

Thanks to these 2+ hour naps Adah has decided to take I can get a lot more done around the house and on the computer!

Please continue to keep my grandfather in your prayers....he had a pretty bad stroke a little over a week ago and is still in the ICU recovering!

Family pictures

Several weeks ago we had a friends brother take some family pictures so that we could have some of Josh in his uniform with Adah before he heads back to the boat! I have tried to post these FOREVER it seems like and couldn't for the life of me get blogger to work. Finally I decided to try one last time this morning and got them to load small and in a low resolution but figured I would share a few of the many!

Since I had to do resizing these will not print well if you try to save them and print them. If you would like a copy of one or some let us know and we can email you the original.

Sometimes I hate technology.....

I had a whole bunch of pictures to upload and post but blogger keeps messing up so here are the few that I could get! I'll see if Josh can figure out what is going on when he gets home!

Adah enjoying bread at Cheesecake factory! She is a carb lover for sure!
notice her injury on her forehead.....that actually looks really good from what her forehead looked like after she took two dives into the concrete in one week!

Playing at the park....trying to get out through the bars!
Ready to slide....at least we pretend...she Hates the slide and REALLY hates the swings! She prefers to walk around and pick up mulch..mmmm!
Crawling up the steps!

16 months

My sweet lil Adah Potatah! My how you have grown and learned so much lately! This past Saturday you turned 16mths...you are almost a year and a half! I can't even believe it! This means pretty soon you will have a baby sister!

You make us laugh so much! You bring so much joy to our lives and we couldn't imagine a second without you in it! You are becoming such a sweet and considerate little lady!

Here are 16 new things you have been doing this month:

1. you say ma-ma
2. you will answer us yes or no when we offer you things or ask you questions
3. you use a fork(the right way)
4. you talk non stop! YOu tell us stories all the time as if we know what you are saying!
5. you are cutting 2 more teeth which gives you a total 14! That means only 4 to go!
6. you aren't too sure about strangers anymore...you really study people and won't go to just anyone
7. you tell me when you have a dirty diaper by walking over and saying bo-bo
8. you LOVE your baby doll....you "shhh" her and put her to bed, feed her, hug and kiss her, etc.
9. you still don't like TV but LOVE your MBCR videos!
10. we made the mistake of getting you addicted to the DVD player in the car
11. you can now roar like a tiger
12. you like to play with your belly in the mirror(sucking it in and pushing it out)
13. you have had more falls/accidents this month than your entire little life combined
14. you love to test us....always trying to get away with more or run away as far as you can before we catch you
15. when we ask you to smile real big you open your mouth as wide as you can
16. you have your first best friends.....the McClure girls that live across the street! You absolutely LOVE them and they love you! You wait at the front door every morning for them to come outside and then you scream with excitement! You love to play with them and give them hugs and kisses! You laugh with them SOOOO much!

I'm sure you are doing so much more but mommy and daddy can't seem to think of them right now! We just love to talk about you each night after you have gone to bed! We just smile and laugh the entire time we are talking! You are everything to us and we love you more than words can say!