BABY'S FIRST THANKSGIVING

Here are some pictures of Addison's First Thanksgiving! We had a wonderful time! Everyone came to our house for Thanksgiving and we had a TON of food, ALL of which was delicious!! (Notice the bib in this picture. I love it! Also notice the object in Addison's hand that is going straight into her mouth. Yes, that is a PACI. Shocking, I know. She will put it into her mouth long enough to suck on it and form a good suction on it then pull it out really fast so that it makes a pop sound. Silly girl! She'll only take it on her terms, not if I give it to her, and not to soothe herself. Pacis are strictly for fun and playing now.

Addison enjoyed eating sweet potatoes (baby food) as her Thanksgiving meal. She downed the entire one ounce container (which never happens in one sitting).
She just kept opening up that sweet little mouth.

This picture kills me!! She had just decided that blowing bubbles into the sweet potato-filled spoon would be great fun. Shortly thereafter she learned that it wasn't as fun as it seems when the sweet potatoes go in your eye! She got them all over her face and into her right eye then turned to my sister (who was taking this picture) with this expression on her face. So funny!
She was the entertainment for all of us.
Along with Conner. He would run around the back of Addison's high chair and pop out on either side and yell. Addison would jump every time. She wasn't scared, but wasn't loving it either. Conner, though, WAS loving it. He did this for 5 minutes straight and was laughing hysterically the whole time. He is such a sweet boy. I was holding him at one point and told him that I loved him. He said "I love you, too" and Jordan overheard him and asked if he loved him too. Conner replies "I don't love you"... Opps. Jordan pretended to have his feelings hurt and Conner did give him a hug later. I just LOVE that little boy. he melts my heart!! (He did tell his other aunt that I was his favorite Aunt!! Not sure if he really meant that or if he was just being a little punk with her, but I was honored!! I'll take it either way! :)Here is Conner with his daddy, Brent. Brent is the maker of the to-die-for fried turkey! It was sooo good!!
This is my cousin, Zach. He is from Reno, NV, but is in the Air Force and is stationed at a Georgia Army base. It's only about 3.5 to 4 hours to drive to my house from there, so he has been able to visit about every month. We are so glad that he was able to spend the holiday weekend with us. I always have so much fun when he visits!! We play games and talk and eat...good times! We always have to introduce him to the southern way; eating persimmons or turnips, or explaining the process of frog-giggin, teaching him phrases like "pocket book" (it's a purse up north) or "trying to get sick" (No, we don't want to get sick, but we are in the beginning stages). It's a learning process.

Here's Mom and Dad. I really like this picture!! Addison was asleep when we took this, or she would have been in one of their arms.

Me and my sister, Kyla. She told me I was wearing a Kyla outfit with my glasses and fall, rust colored shirt. And she was wearing a Jenny outfit with her pink, girl, bow-tied shirt. Ha, ha. We switched rolls.

Here is Ellett, the other (Main, really) star of Thanksgiving. He was such a good little boy. He slept most of the time, waking up just to eat. I will say that this little guy does NOT like to have his diaper changed. That was the only time he cried (which I felt horrible about since I was the one changing him!!, which, BTW, was completely weird for me because #1 he is sooo tiny and it seems so long ago that Addison was that little, and #2 he's a boy, and well, it's just very different to change a boy diaper when you are used to changing a little girl's. Take notice of sweet little Ellett hair. He is a natural rock star. See his mo-hawk. It goes straight down the middle of his head, all the way back.

He's is just soo sweet!!

I stayed like this for quite some time. I was soaking up the feel of a sleeping newborn napping on your chest. It's like a high for me!! I've always liked the idea of holding babies, but I've never been comfortable with it until Addison. I never imagined how much I would love to hold them, or how much I would long to hold Addison when she is away from me. Jordan and I just watch her on her monitor while she sleeps and talk about going to her crib and picking her up just to hold her and cuddle.

Lori had my Addison, while I snuggled up with her Ellett. Conner was playing with Addison and being such the good boy!I love this picture of Lori and Addison. Addison was trying to give Lori a kiss. So cute!

I have decided that Thanksgiving has finally won out over Christmas fro being my favorite holiday! It is lots of eating and time spent with family and less stress than Christmas. I love giving presents, but it's stressful and hectic to me. Maybe if I had started buying back in July... Oh well, there's always next year.

Man, this tastes good!!

Miss Addison had lots of yummy things this weekend! First of all she discovered her feet on Friday night. We were in the living room and I had just finished changing her diaper and had her laying on the couch with me. She started reaching for her feet and then pulled her right big toe right into her little mouth! I was so excited to see this because I think it is so adorable when babies try to eat their toes. Ah, yay!!almost there...

"Man, this is so yummy! Why hasn't anyone told me about these things before?!? Oh, wait, that's right. Mommy kept trying to stuff them in my mouth a few weeks ago."

Ever since this moment, Addison has had a constent desire to put her feet in her mouth. She'll grab her sock if she's wearing one and either pull it off or pull it to her mouth and suck on it. If she's is standing on my lap she will bend at the waist and try to get her mouth to her foot. If she's laying on her back she has her feet up to her mouth constantly. This is making diaper changes a bit more challenging. But I love watching her do it!!

We also had some more rice cereal on Saturday morning.

I think Addison was pretty into it...

What do you think? I LOVE LOVE LOVE this picture. So cute!

It was so cute because I was sitting in front of her, feeding her the cereal and Kyla was behind my left shoulder with the camera. Every time Addison would open up for the spoon, Kyla would snap a picture. So Addison started catching on and as I got her attention with the spoon, she would look at the spoon with her mouth wide open (above picture) and as I moved the spoon closer to her mouth...

...she would turn to look at Kyla with the camera because she knew what was coming. She did this every time! It was just adorable!!

I'm wanting to make some home made baby food and freeze it for Addison. I'm not going to start any other solids besides the rice cereal until after she turns six months old (in two weeks), then we'll start with some avocado, bananas, butternut squash, carrots (store bought), sweet potatoes, some other veggies that I can't think of right now. I'm going to try and stay away from the fruits for a little while so that she will accept the not-so-sweet things before she develops a taste for the sweet stuff and refuses the veggies. I'm really excited about this. She is turning into such a big girl! I love this age! (I think I say that for every age that she has gone through.)

Guess what we tried last night??

That's right, people, I got to try some rice cereal!! I have been trying to eat everything that I can get my hands on (including my hands, haha) and I have finally convinced Mommy that I need big people food. I've been trying to show her by chewing and smacking and mimicking her as I watch her and Daddy eat. This is me as Mommy was stirring it up. Daddy told Mommy that she didn't stir the cereal up right and that it was too thin, but Mommy told Daddy he was wrong and that she knew what she was doing and then she stuffed the camera in his hands and told him to just take some pictures!(BTW, I really like my highchair! I've been in it a lot as Mommy's making dinner, but never to actually eat supper in!!)
Here is the big moment, my very first bite. I really thought this stuff would be good. I was mistaken...

Mom, this can't be the same stuff I watch you and Daddy eat. This is not very yummy.
I'll give it another try.
Okay, why do you keep shoving it my face, Mom?? I think now I'm just going to blow bubbles in it instead of eating it. I'd just spit it out anyway!! I can tell I'll make this a lot of fun for Mommy when we start more interesting, bright-colored foods!!

So now that we're done, I'm going to go back to eating my bib. It's more tasty than the cardboardy stuff that Mommy keeps calling "cereal"! Mommy says that she is going to be very "persistent" with this cereal stuff. I'm not sure what that word means but I think it's bad.
Here is my new outfit that Daddy dressed me yesterday. It says "pretty like Mommy" and no, Mommy didn't buy it for me. GranDee did. I have tons of shirts and onesies that tell you I'm Daddy's girl, but not many that say anything about Mommy. I don't know what the big deal is... I love them both, duh...
I also really like the dogs! That's what I was so intrigued by in this picture. Mommy couldn't get me to look at her with the camera, much less smile at her. What can I say, it was getting close to bedtime and I was just not in a smiley mood. I had just found out that I've been tricked about big people food and I was not happy about that.
Why??? Why did I believe everyone when they told me how yummy things were and that I'd get to try them soon. That stuff I ate tonight: NOT yummy! Mommy says to hold my horses and that I'll get to the yummier things later. We'll see.
I guess since she gives me tons and tons and TONS of hugs and kisses, I'll be okay.