9 Months Old!

We took Addie into the doctor for her check up today. She weighs 13.1 lbs which is below 0% and she is 26 inches long which is in the 10 percentile for her age. Our doctor advised me to try feeding her baby food 3 times a day vs 2 times a day, which is what I'm doing currently. Other than her weight, she is a healthy baby. Luckily no shots were required today.

 

Here's what Addie's up to at 9 months old:

She loves to play with toys. Right now one of her favorites is her little piano. She's event tried hoisting herself up to stand with the piano. She just smiles the whole time listening to the music that comes out of that cute little toy.

 

Cambree is usually by Addie's side. Cambree finally has become "jealous" or "territorial" of her things. We're currently working on how to share. Even though Cambree has her not so nice times with Addie, she loves her to pieces. It melts my heart watching Addie sit and laugh at Cambree.

 

Her two bottom teeth have popped in. It was a rough week or so with not sleeping. I'm sure it really hurts. I'm just glad they came through but I'm not looking forward to the rest of them to come in. But she sure does look awful cute with her little teeth.

 

 

When she's tired, you can tell. Either she's laying down or she gets really fidgety.

 

 

When she wakes up she's usually cooing in her crib. Most of the times she's unwrapped herself and is either playing or sitting up and smiling.

 

 

Addie is always such a happy baby but this past weekend she had a fever and was miserable. Benton and I agreed that she must have felt awful because we couldn't get her to smile, which is unusual for her.

 

 

Bye bye army crawl! She's now figured out how to really crawl.

 

So you can imagine that since she's learned to crawl she can get where she wants really quickly. She loves to get into my garage sale pile, it's like she's drawn to things she shouldn't be playing with. We've had to move this basket she's chewing on away from her because it holds Roxy's toys and she would love at the chance to chew on them. Yucky!

 

 

We were blessed with such an easy, happy baby who smiles almost all the time.

 

The last 9 months have gone in a blur. I am soaking up every moment that I've had with Miss Addie. I know what it's like to not have those moments you dream about with your babies, it's indescribable. Grief is something that I've had to take day by day. I think I will always have pain and that feeling that we are missing one of our family members but it isn't something that I can fix or control. I guess all I can do is concentrate on the now and love my kids and husband with all my heart. Because that's what truly matters.

 

Mother's Day!

Benton let me sleep in until 8:30 and brought me breakfast in bed. It was wonderful sleeping in that long, I can't even remember the last time I was able to do that with no kids in bed with me.


When I remember back to my childhood I always remember wanting to be a mother. Playing dolls and pretending that I was a mom was a normal thing for us girls. I dreamed of being a stay at home mom like my mom was for us.

I feel blessed to have had three sweet girls that I could mother. Although we are only raising two little girls, I know Allie is watching out for us.

Even though I was only able to mother Allie for a short period of time, she will always be my baby. As a mother all you want to do is to take care of your children. Protect them from any sort of pain. Raise them and watch them grow up into good people. Benton and I won't be able to do that for Allie which is so sad to me. In our short time with her I tried my best to show her how much I loved her and prayed she wasn't in pain. I miss her so much and I know that not having her in our lives will be the hardest trial I will have to endure. She truly was an angel sent from Heaven. She spent her life in our arms filled with love. I have learned that family is the most important thing in this life and really nothing else matters.

 

I am lucky to have Addie as our daughter. She warms my heart. Addison is such a happy baby, always smiling. I think she's so sweet because we lost Allie. She is my comfort. I am so thankful to have her as part of our family.

 

And then there's Miss Cambree who is my sassy two soon to be three year old. She is tender and sensitive but also playful and silly. Her giggle is contagious. She loves to be the center of attention. I love her so very much.

 

My kids are my everything. Growing up my mom has always shown us how to be thankful and selfless through her example. She is the type of person that is willing to give to those in need. I can't think of another person as giving as my mother. She would do absolutely anything for her kids and grand-kids. I know if I called her, she would drop whatever she was doing to come help me. I hope that I can and will do that for my kids because I don't have to question her love for me. I was blessed to have her stay at home and take care of us. At the time I didn't think it was a blessing because I couldn't get away with doing certain things but now looking back I am grateful she was always there for us. Love you mom.

 

It was a wonderful day. Happy Mother's Day to all my friends.

In less than 3 weeks...

We will be moving again! I know, I know...we keep moving. It all happened so fast that I'm still in shock. About a month ago, Benton scheduled an appointment for us to look at a house. He had been looking online at homes for months but I didn't think he was too serious about it, well until he made an appointment to see a house. He works from home now and he has wanted more space since our house is somewhat limited for all of us plus him working from home.

The moment we were in the home we both fell in love with it. It's our style and it felt like home. It was kinda weird that we both liked it so much because when we were looking for our current house I went into over 50 houses and I never got "the feeling" until we found our house. I also got "the feeling" at the house we went to see. So we decided to put an offer on it. Then I went to Arkansas.

We finally negotiated the price and we were under contract, contingent we would sell our current home. As fate would have it, someone put an offer on the house we were under contract with and they offered full price. So since we had a contingency they gave us 72 hours to sell our house. I felt helpless because I was out of town. Can you imagine putting your house up and selling it in only 2 days? Technically we had Friday, Saturday and Sunday to sell it but because no one looks at houses on Sunday we only had 48 hours. Can you imagine our panic? I really thought it was going to be impossible. We decided to give it a go and see what would happen. We put our house up online on Friday morning and by Saturday night we already had 5 different offers, our first offer was 5 hours after it was put on the market.

I believe things happen for a reason and it seems like everything fell into place with our new house. I feel like it will be a fresh start for our family. I am sad to leave our current house and neighborhood since they have been fantastic but I think it's for the best and we're only moving North 15 minutes.

We are closing on our new place the end of this month, so I better get packing!

 

I'll post pictures of our new house once we get all moved in!

First Haircut!

I took Cambree in for her first haircut! I went back and forth trying to decide if I should do it and I am so glad I did. She will be 3 years old next month and I figured it was time to let go of some of her baby hair. I think she was pretty excited about getting it cut.

She did really well sitting still for my hairdresser, Missy who is also such a good friend to me. We have done play dates with her and her little guy, so Cambree was comfortable with her cutting her hair.

The before picture. You can see her hair just naturally curls at the bottom, no help needed from me!

 

During

 

 

 

And After! She trimmed the bottom and gave her some cute bangs.

 

She looks so much older to me now. It's weird how a haircut could do that!