The Whidden Fam: August 2015

This little monkey is growing up so fast! I can't believe how fast the summer flew by, and she will be 8 months in just a few weeks!

At 6 months she weighed 16 lbs 8 oz and was 26'' long.

My babies are apparently long? I wonder who they get that from…

She has two front bottom teeth, and got the first one literally the morning she turned 6 months. and the next one a day later. Renne was the same.

She's been eating solid foods since 6 months, and is an awesome eater! She was a little clueless at the start and wouldn't swallow, but now she's a champ, but does have a texture preference just like her sister (and her dad). She also can't handle any lumps or small bits in her food, like Renne. She loves bath time, and when I take her out of the bath its one of the only times she cries. She has such a sweet sensitive spirit, and breaks down into a pile of tears when someone yells too loud, or when you make a mean face at her. It's the most heart breaking cry, i'm so glad I hear it rarely because it nearly brings me to tears. Addie has been sitting lots better, and started right around 6 months. She's gradually gotten more motivated to stay sitting, but loved to throw herself backwards which made it tricky for me to leave her on her own. Addison is probably the most smiley baby I have ever seen. I'm not biased or anything, but she is the best baby in the world. I can't get over how happy she is. It doesn't matter who talks to her, she just lights up and gives them the biggest grin. She is such a ray of sunshine. We are lucky she picked our family.

This little face!! She has been more cuddly lately, and this is her expression when she just wants to stare into your eyes and talk to you. Melts me every time.

i mean, common!!

squeeeeeeely face

goofy grin, do i see some chia-pet hair?

My girls look so different!! Mini Tim and Mini Ash. I wonder if our next one will be a blend…(no, i'm not pregnant, people go nuts for even the slightest hints of baby number 3, but yes, we will be having more. I may or may not already be baby hungry, but pregnancy hungry…that is something else entirely)

Addison does look a lot like I did as a baby, and she also looks like mom and my Grandma McConnell, who passed away last year. I like to think they were together before Addie was born, because they are two peas in a pod. My grandma was always smiling and always happy, people called her "sunshine". She was the classiest woman I've ever known, so proper, very British. Even in her final days she was so sweet and kind and polite, calling the nurses "Pet" I can still hear her perfect delicious accent. I like to think Addie and her had some heart to hearts before Addie came to us. I also think she would be thrilled we chose Jayne as Addie's middle name.

As evident above, i'm not awesome at taking pictures of my kids. Seriously guys, it's no cake walk. It's one thing to get a picture of a person who is sitting still, and actually looking at the camera, but these two smiling together, nearly impossible. So, I decided to take the girls to Sears and get some pictures. I have some pictures of Renne at this very age in a big frame that I absolutely love, and I wanted to get similar ones of Addie for my baby wall.

I had a hard time choosing which ones to post, so there's A MILLION of them. But since this blog is mostly for my journaling purposes, I think i'll leave it this way and if you happen to be reading this, just be rude and skip the pics. But you'll be missing out ;)