I can't believe how fast time has gone! It seems like it was just yesterday that I was in the hospital with her when she was this size!
Where did My baby go!!?!?
I have had the best 10 months of my life, and I wouldn't take back any of it for anything. I love my little girl so much. I wish that she would have stayed little for a tad longer. She now climbs on everything and will stand up on her own. She hasn't quite grasped the concept that she can take a lot of steps on her own even though when we don't hold onto her she can walk just fine. She still prefers to crawl I guess. :)
She decided that she wanted to help mom do dishes and crawled up into the dishwasher. Giving me this look because she knew that she wasn't supposed to be up in there. I love that my baby is so mobile (at times). She has the cutest personality.
Some recent happenings:
For Halloween we went to both grandparents houses so that Addy could show off her costume. She loved the trick or treaters and every time the doorbell would ring she would light right up and crawl to the door if nobody was holding her, or flap her arms like a little bird ( that's what she does when she wants something).
Her new thing when Kloee rides in the car with us is she has to ride in Addy's carseat with her. Look how excited she is!
The week before Halloween we went with Brock's little sister and her two boys to Garner Historical Village and took Halloween pictures. We had so much fun, and everyone loved the kid's costumes.
I am a little bias and thing that Addy was by far the cutest ladybug for Halloween even though it was a popular costume this year for baby girls.
The last week of October we decided that we wanted to go for a hike to catch the last of the colorful leaves that were still on the trees. We got all dressed up nice and warm and headed up behind Weber State. It was beautiful and a perfect day too. Addy loved every minute of it if you couldn't tell from the picture. She is just like her mamma and loves being outside. We had so much fun and discovered so many trails that we had no idea were up there. We will have to plan better next year and take some more hikes. :)
She had so much fun and excitement that on the way back down from the hike she conked and wouldn't wake up for anything.
This was when we got home from hiking. We stopped and got some dinner and ice cream. As you can see Addy is giving her monster face because she just took a big bite of ice cream from dad and loved it.
We went up to my aunt's house for a party and girls day. It was cold outside which was great for me because a couple of weeks ago I found this cute little outfit at TJ Maxx and couldn't wait for her to wear it. It was so funny when I came walking out of her bedroom with her. She had this look on her face that said "look at me I am so pretty and I know it". We couldn't stop laughing at how she was acting. This picture kinda does justice to how her face was, but not all the way.
She is at such a great age right now and does some of the funniest things. Her thing that she likes to do lately is growl like a monster. We can even growl back at her and she will growl harder. It's the funniest thing.
I guess it's time to start thinking about her 1st birthday. This makes me sad, but happy at the same time.
I can't believe how fast this time has gone. My little girl is 9 months old!!! She is hitting each and every milestone so fast and way ahead even the timeline that is set for babies. I know that each baby is different, and I am so proud of how smart she is and how she figures so many things out on her own, but a little part of me wants her to be one of the babies that is a little on the behind side so that I can experience each stage a little longer. Some of the little things that she is currently doing are:
My last week of we spent quite a few days with Papa. It was a lot of fun and we enjoyed going down and visiting Nana for lunch too. It so cute to see Addy and her papa interact and play together.
When ever she sees him her whole face lights up and she gets the biggest grin on her face.
It's been really fun being able to spend so much time with my dad. We have had a lot of fun, and it's nice to have him around and able to go with us. :) The nana gets a little on the jealous side that papa has taken her spot with tagging along with us on our adventures, but I know that my dad loves it. :)
My phone has officially kicked the bucket today. I went down to the Apple store to see if they could fix it or give me a new one, and that was a joke! The guy there told me that what was wrong with my phone was the charging port in the phone is broken and won't recognize that there is a charger plugged into it. He, then, told me that when that happens it is 99% of the time caused by water damage and that isn't covered under warrantee, and he has looked and there has been no water damage to the phone so this was kinda just a fluke that it happened, buuuttt that they still can't fix it or give me a new phone because my warrantee has been up for 103 days. Yeah I'm not too happy with this since I didn't do a single thing to my stinkin phone. If anything I have babied that phone so that I didn't have it break on me. Look where that got me!!! He told me for them to fix that part of my phone it would cost $200, or my other option was to buy another 3GS for $200, oooorrrr renew my contract and get a iPhone 4. Yeah none of those options were very spectacular so I (probably gave the guy a "nice" look) told him that I was going to wait for the iPhone 5, and walked out. So as of right now I don't have a phone. No communication with the outside world except for the internet. It feels like I have lost my right arm and I can't function. In this day and age people can't go without a phone! Plus I can't go without a smart phone! I rely on that so much you have no idea. I mean what if I have to actually drive somewhere that I don't know where it is and I have to find it by the address... When was the last stinkin time that I found a place by navigating through the streets without a navigation system?!?!? I don't think I would be able to! Hopefully I won't be without a phone for too long since the iPhone 5 will be coming out in the next couple of weeks. wheew! Wish me luck!
It is officially here! I love fall time! I'm so excited to get my craft on and to decorate of the season. I absolutely love this time of year. I have some new crafts that I will be completing in the next week that I'm super excited about... :)
I am so excited to make these and put my own little spin on them! If anyone wants to join me for craft day this next week just let me know. :)
Yep you guessed it.... She has started to become mobile!!! I have mixed feelings about it too. I love to watch her little self get from place to place, but now she can fall off of couches and beds. Plus she gets into stuff that shouldn't be gotten into! I do love that when she really wants me she will crawl to where ever I am at. I love the feeling of being loved soooo much by someone :).
Not only is she crawling, she can also pull herself up to a standing position while holding onto the couch as well as sit up on her own. I can't believe how fast she is growing up and changing :(. I was looking at pictures of her taken just a few months ago and I can see a huge change in the way she looks from then and now.
This was when she was almost 5 months old
and this was when she was 4 months old
This was just taken the other day....
I love that my baby is healthy and growing, but I love the stage of them being little cuddly and chubby. :)
A couple of weeks ago we had the wonderful opportunity to go up camping in the Unitas with my parents and my dad's two sisters and their families. We had a lot of fun even though we only stayed up there for one night. It was really hard with the Bug during the night. She would wake up because she would get hot, and ten minutes later she would be cold and start crying. ALLL night long! We figured that it would be better since I wasn't getting much sleep anyway that being at home would be better.
Here are some pictures of the Bug being stylin even up camping :)
Nanna of course gave her a bath even in the trailer sink :)
Papa going in for the "kill"
She doesn't like papa's mustach very much so most of the time papa will get pushed away when he goes in for kisses.
She's smiling at her papa. She loves him so much. It's very cute to see her interact with him, and light up every time she sees her papa :)
All in all, though, it was fun and everyone had a good time together :)
We named him George because he kinda looks like Curious George.
He has now become a permanent part of our family and MUST go everywhere with us
He has food all over him because he very frequently gets kisses while his little friend, the Bug, is eating.
He has to be with her even when she sleeps.
I don't know where this came from either. It happened one day out of the blue where she wouldn't let go of George
I love it though. This happened to be the first toy that Brock and I bought for our little Bug and what we took to the hospital with us for her, so to see that she has taken a special liking to it makes it that much better.
So there you have it.... Good 'ole G E O R G E :)
So I follow this blog that I happened upon some time ago through a friend I went to school with. I don't know why I read it because every time I do I sob for hours. This woman is so strong and I cry every time I think about if I were in her shoes. Anyway, so I was reading this entry about how she writes a journal about her child seperate from a regular journal. I love the idea! Even though Addy is 8 months old I still want to start this because I feel that her little life is going by way too fast, and I have forgotten so much of what she does already. SOOO first thing on my week off I am going out and getting a notebook or journal to start writing in. I'm so glad that I have found this blog because it has taught me how much I need to be grateful for every precious moment with my family and little girl. I have had my eyes open these past few weeks with what I have heard has happend to people in my friends lives. I work with this cute girl that has a friend that just lost her sweet husband the Leukemia. He was diagnosed with it on January 24th of this year, just a month after they found out that she was pregnant. He was in remission a little over a month ago, and was called the first part of August and was told that IT was back and he only had 2-10 days to live. His wife was close to their due date so her OB decided to induce her so that he would be able to meet his little boy before he left this world. He passed ten days later. :( I still cry thinking about it, and I don't even know them! Anyway I could go on about all the details, but as I sit here I still cry about it. I need to be better about appreciating every second with Brock and to not sweat the little things in life because it could be soooo different in a heartbeat. I need to pay more attention to the good in our lives rather than the bad. This will be hard for me because I am a worrier. Well that's all. I can't wait to start my newest adventure
Today we have an old man in our house. :) Brock has turned 30!!!!! The Bug and I went and visited him at work and brought him lots of black balloons. :) He was surprised and like our little visit. His work also bought him a mint chocolate chip ice cream cake (which is his favorite). He is now golfing with his dad and will end the day with a yummy birthday dinner made by the one and only... ME! :D pictures posted in a while.Yes nothing very fancy. I kinda was using what I had in the house already so that I didn't have to pack up the baby to go grocery shopping. Unfortunately I had to do that anyway because I did't realize that I didn't have enough powdered sugar to make the frosting. The best part is after I got all packed up and to the store, and ready to pay at the check-out I realized I left my wallet at home. So not only did I not want to go to the grocery store I ended up making two trips :(. Anyway....
Happy Birthday to the love of my life and the best Daddy to my beautiful little girl. You are a wonderful man and father. I am very thankful that Heavenly Father gave me you ;). I love you!
So about a month ago I went and got Addy's pictures taken at a photography place called Fotofly. It was amazing! They do all the modern type of photography, and for only $79 you get the whole CD of edited pictures that were taken. Wow I kinda sound like an advertisement! :) Anyway, I really wanted the pictures taken so that I could get some pictures of Addy in her blessing dress. Unfortunately she was teething that day and had a very short fuse so when we got to the blessing dress outfit shots she was not having any of it and they didn't turn out like I planned. She still looks very cute though.
For her shoot I knew that I wanted to make her a new bow to go with her blessing dress because the one that I made before I didn't like at all. This is what I came up with:
I love how it turned out even thought when it's on her it takes up half of her head! Hey the bigger the better right? :) I'm debating on whether I should try and take her back and get her blessing dress pictures done again. The staff there was wonderful with her and knew what to do with her to get the best shots so I know that if I was to take her back and have them take pictures of her first in her dress and then do what ever after that she would do much better.
Anyway here are some of the ones we got:
Yes yes I am aware that I haven't posted anything of any importance for two months. oops! It's been super busy around the Cordingley household lately.With me back to work and trying to keep up with family, holidays, and being a mom. Things tend to get pushed off to the side with me saying 'I'll do it later'. Things have been great with us. Since our last post, Brock has gotten a full time job paying salary working for a company called HCH. They basically handle all the licensing of the trucks for the big name trucking companies. It's been great having the extra money coming in and has made it so that we are paying down a lot of our debt pretty fast. We still haven't heard much back from Mesa about the forensics job down there other than they are wanting Brock to send more information about him to them. So we are still keeping our fingers crossed.
Addy is growing so fast. She has for sure mastered rolling over and will not stay in one spot for very long. She is also doing this worm kinda crawl thing so I suspect we will be having a crawling toddler here pretty soon. I can already tell that she is going to be a busy little one! She also can't get enough of helping Dad on his computer. She loves to watch him do things on it.
So some recent happenings for us.....
We were finally to the point that one car was no longer feasable for our schedules anymore so we went car shopping the end of May, and found our cute new car.
It's a Subaru Forester! We love it and it's very fun to drive. It's also nice to have a second car. I didn't know how nice it was to not have to have every minute of every day planned out perfectly so that we could both get the things done that needed to get done, but with only one car. It wasn't too bad when it was just me and Brock. We figured it out pretty well, but now that we added another ingredient to the Cordingley mixture it has made it more difficult with doctors appointments, me working and having to get her to a babysitter, etc.
A month later my dad celebrated his 50th birthday. My mom threw a huge surprise party for him ( not much of a surprise for him, though, because my mom is a bad liar and can't hide things very well) It was fun to see all the family together and to catch up since we have kinda been out of the loop with everything because of having a baby recently. It was weird to think that last year on my dad's birthday we told the family that we were having a baby and now a year later and we have a 6 month old!! That time went by way too fast!
The 4th of July weekend we went up to Brock's mom's side's (that looks funny typed out :S ) family reunion in Park City. It was fun to see all of his family since we don't get to see them very much due to them all living in Idaho. They rented a cabin up there and it was nice to just get away for a little bit. (our new little car got to do some off roading type driving too :) ) Addy had a lot of fun playing with Punkin (that's Brock's mom's "grandma name") and Papa.
On the night of the 4th instead of going to fireworks somewhere we climbed up on Brock's parents roof and watched Lagoon/ Farmington, Kaysville, Layton, and Clearfield fireworks as well as all the many people around us that were lighting the new legalized aerial fireworks. I was a little nervous to see how Addy would react to them. I thought the loud banging might scare her, but it was the exact opposite! She loved them and didn't know where to look because they were going off everywhere! I think I may have watched more of her than I did of the fireworks (oops). :)
Addy had her 6 month checkup on the 18th and had to get more vaccinations. She was such a drama queen about it. She cried initially from the pokes, but the second the nurse was done and I picked her up she stopped crying. The nurse was filling out her immunization card and every time she would look up at Addy to say something to her Addy would let out this little dramatic sob basically telling the nurse she had been hurt by her. It was so funny. That day she did fine with her shots too. She got a little grumpier than usual when she was either hungry or was sleepy, but other than that she was a good little baby. She even went and watched dad play his last softball game that evening and sat on a blankey playing with all her toys just chattering and screaming away. She is very vocal and talkative if you weren't aware of that. Her and her dad will even have talking conversations back a forth. It's the cutest thing ever! Her and her dad have a lot of fun together. He can get her to laugh so hard, but every time I try to record it I think she knows, and stops completely or doesn't laugh as hard anymore. Yes a STINKER I say!
Her stats this time were:
length: 25 1/4in 30%
weight: 15 lbs 12 oz 50%
head circ: 45.5 cm 50%
So she's still little bitty, and I love every minute of it :)
I can't believe that the time has gone by this fast!! I was thinking the other day about how 6 months ago I was in the mindset that when I would think about going somewhere I would not picture a baby with me, but now when I think about even running to the grocery store I always picture me with baby in tow now. It's so weird how fast your whole mindset changes when you have a baby. Now pretty much all of my thoughts are solely about her in some way. Like I've said before I wouldn't change any of it for the world.
Her and her daddy talking back and forth with each other having the cutest conversation ever!!
Her first food experience. She loves big people food!
She loves pickles! She put it right in her mouth and never made the sour face. :)
First swim at her cousin Drew's birthday party and Daxton's half birthday party.
She thinks it's so funny when her daddy fake sneezes at her
This is the cutest thing ever! She sat there contently watching Brock for a long time while he did dishes.
The first time she found her foot, and now I can't keep them out of her mouth.
First big bath. She loved it! The Bumbo didn't float very well though.
We went to the Bee's game with Brock's little brother and his cute girl friend. It was a lot of fun. This is how much Addy liked it ;)
She no longer needs to even wear a bib she's such a clean eater!
