work of art

Adalynn has been very interested in crayons and pads of paper lately. She is so funny walking around here with a crayon in one hand and a little notebook in the other. Future journalist one day? :)

She stays pretty content sitting in her high chair coloring for a few minutes here and there.

There's Reporter Adams

Cheesin'

Trying to see how many crayons she can hold at one time!

There's her masterpiece!

Christmas Music

Oh, how I am a fan of Christmas music! We have had so much fun listening and dancing to Christmas music around here lately! I thought I'd share one of my fav songs. Please don't ask me how this band that is playing got its name. lol. I do think Sarah McLachlan has an absolutely beautiful voice though!

Anyway, thought I would spread some cheer if I could. I just love the lyrics to this song (It's always been a fav of mine ever since I was very little! :)

Enjoy the season!!!

It's a jammie kind of day!

Poor Little Miss Addy has had a hard time staying well over the past few weeks. I usually like to focus on the positive. Sorry if the blog has been a little too "Debbie Downer" for ya lately! lol :)

It seems that she has been fighting one thing after another. Right now, it is a nasty stomach virus. On Monday, she threw up probably 15-20 times over the course of 5 1/2 hours. We were dressed and ready to go to the ER, but held off. I was really worried about her becoming dehydrated because she was not keeping any liquid down. My mom (who I probably called 5 times during the course of all of this) assured me that she just needed to get it all out of her system. Not sure how someone so small had that much in her to get rid of. Poor baby. :(

I stayed home from work Tuesday and took her to the doctor in the morning. While there, she said that her hydration was decent at the time, but if we did not see another wet diaper within the next few hours, it was time for IV fluids. Luckily, we only had one vomiting episode yesterday, and she did start drinking water.

She perked up after her bath last night and started playing more and more.

It has been nice snuggling with her on the couch with blankies the past couple of days. This doesn't happen a whole lot when she's feeling up to par. Someone must have decided she likes blankies during this whole thing (she usually kicks them off and wants nothing to do with them).




Here's our gal. I guess she thinks blankies go on your head. :)





So silly. :)





Snoozing. zzzzz

After working this morning, I picked Addy up from my Grandma's. She had a good day (no getting sick!), but was so ready for her nap. She slept some in bed and then woke up. A few minutes later... here she is zonked out next to me on the couch.

Same jammies from the night before. I know I love me some jammies... especially when I'm not feeling well.

pictures

Here are our Christmas pictures! These are all the ones we took. Not all of them are keepers, but I thought some turned out pretty darn cute!

Click the link if you're interested. :)

https://viewimages.jcpportraits.com/sharealbum/sharealbumlist?rndId=AAMJAQdAWFNeWA==&uId=AAQIBwBPWw====

Hope it works... I was having a little trouble with it earlier.

taming the wild beast

Adalynn's hair definitely takes after mine! It's always frizzy, dry, and curly/wavy. Luckily, she will always be cute no matter what her hair looks like! :)

This evening, we went and got Christmas pictures taken. JC Penney did them, and we were very pleased! They turned out great! Plus, we got Christmas cards and a bunch of sheets for a very reasonable price.

Before the pictures, I was faced with the task of "taming the wild beast" aka... Adalynn's hair.

Here are some before pics.






The back.




:)

Bows are useless, she gets them out in half a second. It did look cute though after a bath and "deep conditioning treatment" as we call it around here! She was a VERY good girl and did a great job modeling for the camera!

I will share our Christmas pictures as soon as I get them! :)

Thanksgiving Break

The day after Thanksgiving, we went to Nick's mom and dad's for dinner. We were sooo excited because his cousin, Amelia and her boyfriend, Ryan were in town. They live in Memphis. We had a great night visiting.

I have been switching back and forth between 2 memory cards so I think I have misplaced some pics somewhere. I don't know how I didn't get any pictures of Amelia, Adalynn, and Ryan because they were having a ball all night. I will be stealing some off her Facebook soon! Luckily, we will be seeing them again at Christmas (along with her mom, dad, and brother, Ben! Yay!)

I did get some pictures of Adalynn and Oliver at least!

Ollie looking JUST like his daddy here!

Okay... so this is probably one of the cutest things I've ever seen. Addy and Oliver LOVE each other! They are always trying to give each other kisses!

Awwww!!!!! I swear, they do it on their own! One of these days, I guess we'll have to

tell them they're cousins! :)

Thanksgiving

I'm a little late on this, but we had a great Thanksgiving and hope you did too!

We kicked off our Thanksgiving by watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in the morning and checking out the Black Friday ads.




I love this pic of Addy and daddy in their jammies checking out the bargains! Addy especially loved the Toys R Us ad! :)



Silly girl!

Then, we headed over to Nick's Aunt Kim's for lunch.



Little Miss Addy socializing.

Nick's cousin, Bailey and his Aunt Lesley. Bailey was the flower girl in our wedding! Can't believe how big she is getting!

Sweet Oliver playing with his new tractor.

Something caught Addy and Ollie's attention.

Mommy and Addy Cakers.

After lunch, we headed over to my parents' house to spend Thanksgiving with my whole fam! I have no idea how we managed to spend over 4 hours there and not snap one single pic, but we did! :( At any rate, we had a great time eating and playing games. There is never a dull moment when you get the whole Whitis gang together!

Nick and I feel truly blessed for our wonderful families! We have so much to be thankful for!