Road trip photos!

Addie and I drove up to Philadelphia (or rather....just outside of it) to visit the McGee family and celebrate the second annual Spain-Girls reunion. Jodi, Alexandra, Brette, and I spent a semester abroad in Madrid, Spain our junior year. Here are some photos of the gang and our shenanigans...

Group photo! From Left to Right: Jodi, Shannon, Alexandra, Addie, Me, Brette


Addie sharing a giggle with Alexandria


Brette and Addie having fun. Brette and Alexandra were AWESOME with the girls--we were so lucky to have extra sets of arms to help with and cuddle up to the chicas.


Wait...are you my mom?


Wait, no really, you look like my mom...


Here let me take a taste...Okay, *you're* definitely my mom.


Jodi and her husband Chris help Shannon and Addie dance to the coolest music ever..."Swing...baby Swing....baby swing..." it became the theme song of our weekend.



Addie and Shannon had a bath together! We'll surely be bringing these photos out when they're teenagers.


So in our tub at home, all we had was a lone rubber ducky for Addie to play with. The night we got home, I scoured her room for water-safe toys so she can bathe every night like Shannon! Though I can't say we can rival a floating cow...mooooo......


Must eat as many toys as possible!


Adorable!


After the girls went to bed on Saturday night, we busted out the margaritas and played Guitar Hero. We literally rocked.


Brette helping Addie say hello to bulldog Sadie


Shannon and Addie played so nicely together!


Shannon, Alexandra, me and Addie


Alexandra then stole Shannon away for an extra cuddle


Shannon is doing so many fun things! She's just about ready to crawl and eats all kinds of real food. We love seeing Shannon who is 4 months older because it gives us hints of the months to come with Ads.


Thanks for having us, McGee fam!

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!

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

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!

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???

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!