Ok, for all of you blog followers, Addison and Mommy appoligize for the delay in updates. Addie has been moving around like crazy and keeping Mama VERY busy! Since our last post in April, Addie visited Litchfield beach where she perfected her rolling capabilities, started army crawling around 7.5 months, and is now pulling herself up to a standing position on any and everything she can find!! Besides the army crawl with the right arm and back left foot, her most unique quality is that she is truly a gigglepus!! She LOVES to laugh, especially when dada comes home. She will find any reason to smile and giggle, so cute! Oh, and she also got her first 2 bottom teeth around the beginning of month 8. Other highlights are first fathers day, Aunt Ernie's surprise visit to Chicago, and Grandmommy LiNelle's visit to Chicago. We have been enjoying the summer and spending our days at Gymboree and Swimming classes. Addie put her head under water last week and oh so not a fan!
All our love and hope to keep up better with blogging, we promise!!
The end of summer was such a fun time for us. The weather was finally nice enough in Chicago for Addie and Mommy to take adventures throughout the city. We enjoyed long walks together everyday and Addie also tasted her first cupcake, which of course she LOVED! Can you blame the girl? She also had fun meeting her cousins for the first time. Her personality really starts showing at 10 months. She especially enjoys cuddling her animals and gives them sweet hugs, what a Lovey.
Addison's 9th month was a really big month for her! She started crawling with her chest up, cruising, and waiving! Now that she is 10 months old she is starting to imitate everything we do...uh oh, Mom and Dad better watch out! Yesterday Addie asked me for her Baba (bottle) and gestered "more" one of her signs that she has created. She also likes to imitate "Where is thumpkin" with her blueberries. She is eating almost everything we eat, just in much smaller portions. Her favorites are bananas, blueberries, american cheese, meat purees, graham crackers, and avocado. We've been enjoying the nice weather this summer, going to the parks, zoo, nature museum, farm, and our favorite Ohio st beach(which is conveniently located near the Michigan ave stores!) We are also still enrolled in swimming and Gymboree with our buddies Maddie and Laura Kendall.
Addison started army crawling around 7.5 months. She pulls forward with her right arm and pushes off with her left back foot. Quite a technique she created! She is also feeding herself her own bottles which is very helpful to Mommy, and when eating solids she is very independant! She takes the spoon herself and when she is done eating politely hands it back, well usually :)
