Our baby girl is ONE!

Addison is now ONE! Of course she has changed tremendously over the course of the year, but that is to be expected. She grew, she developed, and she got cuter with every waking day.

Addison loves to play and she thinks it’s fun to feed Snoop (and so does he)! She likes to share her toys and likes to put her toys in bags, buckets, and containers...and then dump them out again! She also discovered the (loud) sound pots make when you bang them on the floor.

This month we battled a couple of weeks of sickness. After an ear infection and case of croup, we are happy to have our girl healthy and back to her normal happy self. She now weighs 17.6 pounds and is growing like a weed.

This month we enjoyed Easter festivites. 

The Easter bunny is not so bad...as long as mom and dad are close by!

Growing up, I remember Easter as one of my favorite times of the year. We loved preparing for Easter by waving our palms at church. This meant (1) a cute new outfit, (2) waving of palms down the aisle, and (3) palm "window shades" for the car ride home. This year not only did the excitement from my childhood come back - Addison had a cute new dress and we waved palms during the processional - but more importantly I reflected on the amazing sacrifice we were celebrating - the start of a week in the life of Jesus that would change our eternal lives forever. Praise the Lord! Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!

Ready to wave my palm!

Growing up, I remember waking up Easter morning to find our special baskets filled with gifts from the Easter bunny. Last year, Addison fit in her special basket. This year, she was excited for her gifts.

Addison Easter 2011, Easter 2012 

Growing up, we celebrated Easter with a huge egg hunt at my Memaw and Papaw’s with my sister and 6 cousins. Every year we would hunt eggs, empty our loot - cheerios when we were little and coins for laundry while we were in college - and re-hide/hunt the empty eggs all afternoon. Addison enjoyed a hunt at school. She really cornered the market on the rubber duckies!

Easter morning was bright, sunny and warm. We were happy to have Honey in town. There’s nothing like our church on a Sunday morning with such a vivid reminder of just how important Jesus’ death and resurrection was for our salvation. He lives!

I have enjoyed sharing our monthly adventures over the last year with you, our friends, family, and followers. While blog posts may no longer come on a monthly basis, we will continue to post and keep you updated on the goings on of our life.

This last year has definitely proven that parenthood is absolutely the best adventure ever! Happy birthday to our sweet girl! Stay tuned for birthday party pictures!

Amen and Pass the Butter!
Marcy

11 Month Update

As she approaches her first birthday (can you believe it?!), Addison is showing plenty of signs of leaving babyhood behind and becoming a more independent toddler. She no longer likes to be rocked at night, she is standing up on her own, and she’s showing signs that she will be walking before her birthday.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

At daycare, she is no longer is entertained by the baby toys and has learned how to "scale" the play area wall. Because we have a dare devil baby, Addison was moved up to the Wee Wobbler classroom as of April 1^st. We loved the teachers in her baby classroom and I’m trying to find a way for them to follow her until she graduates high school. They have loved our girl and shown her love while we have been busy at work. What a blessing they have been for this working mother.

In terms of play, Addison can now join in on games like patty-cake and peek-a-boo. She is also showing signs of independence holding her own bottle and feeding herself much of her own dinner.

Addison and her daddy LOVE the bathtub and bath time has become a ritual for them. I love to sit outside the bathroom and listen to them laugh, blow bubbles, and splash. We can’t wait to take our water baby to the pool this summer!

This month, we were excited to learn that Addison’s newest cousin will be a baby BOY Erwin! Eli will be here before we know it! We are so excited for the new addition to our family!

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Swimming with Dads

We were also thrilled to welcome Addison’s newest friend, Hadley Hamm, on March 18^th. We are so excited for Ty and Ashley and the adventures we will have with our girls.

Honey spent the last part of her spring break with us and made Addison her nap mat for school. She will certainly be the cutest baby in her class (even while sleeping)!

This month we have also been busy at our house. We put our house on the market and found a new house we loved. Rather than wait for our house to sell, we decided to take a gamble and put a contract in on the new house, hoping our house would sell in the interim period before closing.  I am such a worrier and the idea of two mortgages really weighed on me until I was reminded to turn my worries over to the Lord.  At our church’s Wednesday night Connect service, our pastor reminded us to turn the weight of our worries over to the Lord and to symbolically leave that weight, a rock, at the foot of the cross. I prayed over my rock that our house would sell and the Lord would give me peace with the move from our home we love.  I took my rock to the alter and felt some peace that night.  The next day, MY PRAYER WAS ANSWERED!  We are closing May 4^th on the old house and 18^th on the new house! We are thankful to the many answered prayers for the sale of our house in a quick 3 weeks!

This month, we are reminded that the Lord has promised to answer prayer. "Ask and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." Matthew 7:7. What an awesome God we serve!

Amen and Pass the Butter,

Marcy