Sunday, April 27, 2008

More from the Danielle files

When I wasn't feeling well earlier in the week, Steve took Addie to meet up with his high school friends Danielle and Andrea at a cool coffee place with outdoor tables. It was a gorgeous day out and Danielle snapped some great photos of the little bear. You saw one of the photos from the afternoon on the last blog post.

Here are more of the photos that Danielle took that afternoon. Danielle also provided the cute Addie commentary ;)


Hmmm....what are you crazy adults drinking over there...?


Ooooh, I think I wanna try some!


C'mon Dad, gimme that coffee - I can't reach!


Pretty please??



Addie and I took our first road trip just the two of us and we hit Philly this weekend to visit the McGee family and our Spain crew for our second annual reunion. We had SO much fun! Stay tuned for pictures recapping the fun!

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Summer weather=cute dresses.


Photo credit: Danielle Esposti

We headed out this afternoon for an Addie photo-shoot. We took a ton of pics, here are some of our favorites, but you can see the entire selection at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/stevesilvestro/AdelineLovesNature




Sunday, April 20, 2008

Addie's got some new tricks...

I've been trying desperately to upload a video of her newest trick all weekend and something just isn't working. So you'll just have to settle for some still shots of Addie---SITTING!

Without falling over!!

She woke us up ridiculously early on Saturday morning just to show us her new trick.


Look, Ma! No hands!


Why are you guys so excited? What's the big deal? It's like I've been doing this forever!



She's also now a world-wide web video conferencer.

Here she is batting her lovely long lashes at her great-grandfather in Sydney, Australia via webcam!


And getting some grandma lovin' isn't new, but it's still fun!


We're training Addie to help us fold laundry


Here's Addie telling Uncle Dan the history of Passover


Bathtime is way more fun when you're sitting up. Note the calmness of the water...


...and now the crazy waves created by the little boo....splish splash!

All this "growing" and "developing" apparently tires her out. G'night!

Friday, April 18, 2008

Pink-eye, Stink-eye and Addie's nicknames

Addie has pink eye! :( We're not sure where or how she got it, but between heading to three different stores on Wednesday and the fact that Addie's "I'm super sleepy" sign is massive amounts of eye-rubbing...we're not that surprised.

We had some friends from college over for dinner earlier in the week--they are very loyal blog readers ("So THIS is the house from the blog...") and Addie loved having them visit!

Corrine and Addie


Beth (aka "Schu" or "Shoe" to those who have heard me talk about her---she's a bride next month!) and Addie. Not pictured: Emily and Addie.


We thought it would be fun to list her many MANY nicknames that we and others call her. Adeline is actually quite rare to come out of our mouths unless a stranger asks her name. Addie is common, but these nicknames also tend to pop out of our mouths when referring to the little one...

Mudge
Little Peanut
Peanut
Bean
Little bean
Bean-nut
Peanut Butter
Peanut Butter and Jelly
Little Bear
Pooh Bear
Pooh-ba
Bear
Addie
Adeloo
Adelina
Addie-boo
Boo
The Boo
Squish
Little Squish
Super Squish
Squish Butt
Chubs
Little Stink
Stinkbum
Cheeks
Cheeks McGee (no relation to Shannon McGee)
Cheeks Magoo
Liney (courtesy of Uncle Doug)
Nugget (courtesy of Danielle)
AH-dee (courtesy of Grandma Eva...okay, it's just her accent and not a nickname, but it's still super cute)

Anything I'm missing???

Friday, April 11, 2008

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!

Thursday, April 10, 2008

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!

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

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 :)