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