Addie thinks she is a big girl... seriously. She is feeling MUCH better but now has almost completely weaned herself from nursing and from her pacifier. She will only nurse once during the night and when she wakes up in the morning and refuses it the rest of the day. She hasn't used her pacifier in several days either. I don't mind the paci being gone, because she looks so sweet asleep without the plug in her mouth, but I wasn't ready to always have to feed her real meals... it takes forever! She won't take formula, or milk in a bottle, but will drink out of a cup, so I have been pumping and pouring it in a cup for her once it is cold... ridiculous I know, but she'll take it. Addie also feels the need to eat like Jarom and I do. She has to eat her muffin by her holding it and biting off of it, she eats her baked potato off of a real fork, eats her fruit with her hands like I do, and likes to have her food on a plate like us. She will refuse foods if I try to feed her with my fingers, but will take it on a fork. She is so silly! I don't know what got into her while she was sick, but she thinks she is grown now. Jarom says she only nurses at night because its dark and she's embarrassed for anyone to see her nursing because she's so grown up now...She has mastered clapping and still pats her hand in the "no no" fashion. She smacks her lips when she wants to eat, and grunts when she is full. I will grunt back at her sometimes to try to get her to laugh so I can shove in a few more bites if the jar is almost gone.
Saturday night we went out for dessert and to feed the ducks with Skyler, Ashley, & Maclane. 
We had so much fun, and were really enjoying watching the ducks until we saw two um... reproducing... cough cough. Maclane started crying because she thought the one was hurting the other one, giggle.
Everyone says we look like sisters and we always say we wish!
We love hanging out with the Lee's, it is good to have such a great family to spend time with and Addie and Maclane are best buds and always give each other a smooch when they first see each other! It is adorable!
On another note, we have a huge new shopping center coming 3 miles or so from our house. It is going to be WONDERFUL!!! The Harris Hills development will have a Super Target, Barnes & Noble, Ross, Pier 1, J.C. Penny, World Market, Hobby Lobby, Dick's Sporting Goods, Kohl's, Pets Mart, Best Buy, Old Navy, and many more. There will also be a movie theatre! The only places I ever end up shopping at are Target, Old Navy, Ross, and Hobby Lobby and they are all going to be 3 minutes from my house... I am so excited I could scream, but Addie is asleep so I will have to contain myself.
Jarom and I also have been bitten by the house bug. Our favorite pastime is to drive around looking at houses and there is a subdivision called Hawks ridge a few minutes from us that we LOVE! Come to find out, we could actually afford it (and it would put me only a minute from all of my favorite stores). We would have to sell our house and really live on a budget, but the neighborhood is gorgeous and is surrounded by million plus dollar homes and land trusts. The problem is that we don't have a need for a bigger home at the moment and had planned on living in our itty bitty house for at least another 2-3 years. Sigh. I guess we might just have to dream a little longer.
Daddy & Addie dancing
5 comments:
It's no fun to be practical, huh?!! I can't believe how big Addie is getting, her little personality is so cute! And, I hear ya on real feeding taking forever. It's the pits to always have to spoon feed.
Geeze that kid has personality galore.
I pumped and fed Chase all the time like that until he was a year. She is such a cutie and I can't believe how big she is getting! How awesome is that shopping center going to be? I would be even more broke all the time if I were that close!!
Addie just has class! What more can you say?! I love the videos!
New houses always sound fun, but my advice is to always live way under what you could afford. It is so hard to have to give up your dream house if you have a life catastrophe...
I love the picture of her devouring the muffin. How cute is that? I was showing the pictures to Avery and she was oohing and ahhing and getting really excited. She misses her cousins!
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