No Peeking!

Mom, can I please just open up one present early?

Christmas Jammies

I am a sucker for Christmas PJs, especially when they are little and go on this cutie!!

I think I have about 5-6 pairs for her to wear throughout the Christmas season! I just had to find the perfect pair and I kept finding more!

Some of them are snowmen though so she can wear those all winter (maybe this is how I justify it to myself!). I started her in them as soon as I got back from my work trip over the weekend, gotta get all the wear out of them before Christmas that we can!

Pink Hawkeye

Kyle and I have season tickets to the Hawkeye football games. One road close to the stadium is Melrose Ave and on game days it’s lined with shops and food stands. When I found out we were having a girl I couldn’t wait to visit one of the shops. They have these sparkly Hawkeye shirts for women, girls, and babies! And think sparkly always catches my attention and when it’s pink that’s just the icing on the cake!

The onesie worked perfect with the tutu a friend of mine made for Adelyn’s 3 month pictures! Needless to say she was always outfitted for game days this fall! unfortunately the Hawks didn’t end the season too well, but we are still Hawk fans through and through!

First Taste of Cereal

This post is very late, over a month to be a little more precise! On October 29th we tried cereal with Adelyn for the first time. We mixed it with 3T formula and 1T cereal (I was trying to save all the breastmilk I could for an upcoming week long work trip). So with that mixture it was very runny, but good for a first try. She did really well for a first try!

She even cleaned her plate!

Day 2 with cereal was even better (as you can tell by the picture)! I mixed the cereal a little bit thicker and she did really well. She eats like a champ now and I think by the time she’s 6 months she’ll be more than ready for baby food.

This is mainly for the Grandma’s & Aunties, but to see Adelyn’s first experience with cereal check out the video below!

Adelyn’s Five Months Old!

November 21st marked Adelyn’s 5th month of life! It’s hard to believe Adelyn is less than one month away from being half a year old! This sweet girl has forever changed our lives in a way we never knew way possible! Adelyn’s fifth month of life was a busy, full one, but great at the same time!

We are so thankful how happy Adelyn is all the time. You can just look at her and she smiles from her head all the way to her toes! Kyle’s Mom said he was the same way when he was a baby! She is getting much easier to get belly laughs out of these days too! Daddy is especially good at it!

Adelyn is SO, SO close to being a “sitter”. She does the “tripod” like a champ, but if she gets too excited or reaches too far one way she falls over. I wouldn’t be surprised if I will be posting this coming week about our little girl who sits on her own! She still isn’t showing many signs of crawling, despite daycare’s opinion. When she’s on her tummy her arms and legs are just a going, like she’s swimming or something, but she doesn’t go anywhere! She can turn herself around to face a different direction or wiggle her way to a different place on her play mat, but no crawling yet.

The day after Adelyn turned 4 months old we noticed 2 little white teeth poking through her bottom gums! She didn’t get fussy or anything when they were coming through, which we were thankful for. Now they are all the way through and you can clearly see her 2 pearly whites when she flashes that sweet smile!

This little girl loves anything she can chew on! Sophie the giraffe is her favorite, along with her taggie blanket and a few other teethers. But if those toys aren’t available she is willing to chew on anything that she can get in her mouth!

On October 29th we tried rice cereal for the first time with Adelyn. We mixed it with 3T formula and 1T cereal (I was trying to save all the breastmilk I could for an upcoming week long work trip). It was very runny, but she still did really well. As the month went on she continued to get better and better. And we also began mixing the cereal a little thicker and she did really well with that too. She does so well with the spoon and the majority of the cereal ends up in her mouth! We are planning on starting baby food around 6 months.

Adelyn still eats 5-6 times per day. The rice cereal is just an addition. I usually get to nurse her 2-3 times a day and she has 3 bottles of breastmilk at daycare.

Adelyn is still wearing size 2 diapers and size 3-6 mo clothes. I bought a few Christmas outfits in 6-12 thinking she would be in the next size up by that time, but nope! I just had to exchange them today for the 3-6mo size! She really is a long little girl!

We count it a huge blessing to have such a happy little girl! We are especially looking forward to celebrating our first Christmas a family of 3!

*FIVE MONTH STATS*

weight – didn’t weigh her

length – didn’t measure her

eating – 100% nursing or breastmilk from a bottle

clothes - 3-6 months

diapers - size 2

Watch me grow!

Mommy’s Lil Pumpkin

The week before Halloween I dressed Adelyn in fun holiday outfits each day for daycare! 

This outfit is from a store that was having a sell out this summer, only $3! I think all Mommies would agree that anything with Mommy on it is hard to resist! ;) Funny thing is that she is wearing a Mommy shirt today too! Ha!

The whole time she was sitting in the chair she was just jabbering up a storm and smiling away!

I just love all the faces she makes! A friend at a scrapbooking retreat a few years ago did a scrapbook of all black & white pictures of her kids and the faces they make, I can’t wait to do that with Adelyn!

Another silly face! I sure do love this little girl!!

Hope everyone is having a great week! I told Kyle this morning on the way to work that 2 weeks from today it will be our “Friday” since we will be off for a 4 day weekend for Thanksgiving! Hooray!!!

Adelyn Loves her Feet!

I have SO much blogging to catch up on! Over the past week or 2 I feel like I’ve taken SO many pictures…but how can you blame me when this sweet girl is your subject?!?!

Anyway, on to the point of my post! Over the past 2-3 weeks Adelyn has become obsessed with her feet! It just cracks us up! If she could get both feet in her mouth she would!

When we lay her down on the changing table her these days, it’s automatic that her feet come up and her hands find them and then straight to her mouth! Silly girl!

Who needs toys when you have toes to grab?!?!   

And I couldn’t help but to include this one from the day. No she isn’t reaching for her feet, but I just love that big smile!!