Saturday, December 27

Addison enjoyed her second Christmas much more than her first. It's funny to think that at this time last year her schedule was: sleep, eat, poop, repeat. This year she thoroughly enjoyed the Christmas tree, the lights, the wrapping paper and playing with her cousins.

Matt and Ethan had fun with Addison in Abilene.

Owen and Grant with Addison in Waco.

We are so excited Addison has such great cousins to play with and look up to!

One Year Old!!

Wow! It's hard to believe, but Addison is one year old! What an incredible year it's been! We've learned so much about ourselves, our families, friends, and, of course, Addison. She had a blast on Saturday opening presents and squishing cake between her fingers and in her hair. However, she also had her first sinus infection, so I don't know that she could even taste it. Is there some kind of rule out there that kids have to be sick on their first birthdays? In true Addison form, she had fun in spite of it.

It's amazing to look at how much she's grown over the year. The pictures above are her 12 month and 1 month pictures with the bear.

We are excited to see how Addison grows over the next year. There will be plenty of interesting and fun moments. Hopefully, we will be able to capture most of them on film to share with you. Here's a taste of what's to come...

Monday, Dec 8

This year is clearly a year of firsts for Addison. Thanksgiving was wonderful. She didn't get any turkey, well none that we had anyways. Hers was from a jar. She had a great time hanging out with her cousins and the rest of the family.

Swimming lessons are going well, although Addison is not really learning to swim. I highly doubt she would be able to save her own life if she fell in a pool, but we're having a blast going to the lessons. She's about to graduate from the diaper dolphins to the flippers class, which begs the question, "How does one graduate if one learns nothing?" That's the great American education system, I guess.

On Saturday, we went out into the wilderness and found a great tree and Rach cut it down with her bare hands. Or, we went to 41st and Harvard and bought one from Isaiah who hooked us up with a $25 tree stand too. Either way, Addison loved the experience of getting her first Christmas tree and we all had a great time.

An almost new development is that Addison is almost crawling. We can see the desire to crawl in her eyes, but she gets up on her knees and then plopps right back to her tummy. Sometimes she sort of makes an army crawl looking motion. It takes her a while but she gets to her destination eventually.