5 month photo shoot and a Pile O' Babies

Addie turned 5 months old yesterday and so we had a couple of photo shoots to commemorate the occasion. (gots to get her in these cute dresses before she grows out of them!!)

Here are some of my favorites!







I'd heard great things about joining a group of moms who have babies around the same age so you can bond and have people to do fun things around the city with your little tykes. Bess told me of a group she and Anne were joining, so I jumped on the wagon. Well, we met such a lovely group of women and their little darling babies, ranging from 11 weeks to almost 6 months. They came over yesterday for lunch and we decided to do a "pile o' babies" photo shoot which we plan to continue as they grow older. That's Addie in the middle if you couldn't tell amongst so many fair-headed peanuts! From left to right: Helena, Braedon, Anne, Addie, Chase, Reese, and Robert.


Um...hey mom...who are all these other babies on my couch?

Oy vey...is it nap time yet?

Hey, Anne...see those toe-things at the end of my feet? They're great to suck on if you want a taste.

The flirting end of the couch---Addie fondling a sleepy Chase and Reese trying to hold Robert's hand. How cute are they?


Happy Tuesday!

A new video!

I keep wanting to make a video collage of Addie talking/singing/making inappropriate noises, but...
I haven't gotten around to looking through all the clips, so...since it's been awhile since we've had a video, I thought I'd throw a quick one together...

Enjoy!

And....we have a roller.

So when we posted a few weeks back that Addie had rolled from tummy to back, we didn't mention that it was with a leetle assistance. No, we didn't manually roll her over and then congratulate her for her efforts--however, we did soooort of hold a toy over here head until she looked UP UP UP and then the weight of her head kiiind of tipped her over and boom, she was over onto her back. To us, it seemed like a clear milestone achievement since we didn't actually touch her and she could have, in reality, been looking at something up high without our intervention--the chandelier, a box of cereal on top of the fridge, whatever.

Anyhoo, she hadn't made another body flip, assisted or otherwise, since then until...a few days ago. Addie was down for a nap. All of a sudden, we heard a strange scratching noise over the sound of the monitor---it was repetitive and insistent and quite strange when the only other sounds we've heard from the monitor are her crying, talking, or fussing. We went upstairs to check and Addie, who had been put down on her back as all babies are supposed to be put down nowadays, was now on her tummy! And instead of napping peacefully, she was carefully scratching at the Pooh design on her crib sheets.

Since last week we have found her on her belly in her crib several times (sometimes she's fine with it, other times she's screaming to get us to turn her over, and clearly she hasn't mastered it yet despite the previous "victory") but we had yet to actually catch the act of rolling. We were beginning to think that some bedtime fairy was turning Addie over :)

Well this morning during breakfast (mine, not hers) she proved me wrong--Addie is a roller...and here's the proof!




Doesn't she look so proud?? :) We are, too!

And finally, I present to you the newest favorite toy in the house...the Rainforest Jumperoo, providing minutes upon minutes of uninterrupted fun and distraction for the bean while I do things like cook dinner or....update the blog :)