SEVEN MONTHS

Weight: TBA
Length: TBA
Recent milestones/new things: High pitched sounds/babbling (dada, gaga, yaya, baba, sometimes nana), cooting backwards, teething, pulling up onto hands and knees/doing pushups, sitting unassisted
Favourite toy: Bright Starts Teether Pal (White Rabbit), Fisher Price Laugh & Learn Learning Puppy, rubber ducks in the bath tub, Go Baby Go Bat and Wobble Penguin
Sleep: 9 pm - 7/8 am, quick bite to eat, and getting up for the day at 9/10 am
Diapers: Love Pampers Baby Dry (3)
Food: Still not a fan of cereal. Carrots, sweet potatoes, and avocado are okay. Also not a fan of peas, apples and bananas, or peaches. Loved sucking on a whole piece of baked chicken but didn't eat it when pureed. Hates beans and chick peas.

Picture to come when my computer stops being stupid and lets me transfer pictures

Jump, jump, jump!

Addison's new favourite thing is her Jumperoo. She's always liked hanging out in it and playing with the little toys, but now she's really jumping. Once she gets going, she does. not. stop. As I sit here writing, she's laughing and jumping as hard as she can. If she's anything like her cousin, this will keep her occupied for quite some time. She seems to be really enjoying it. I'm happy because a) It's funny to watch, b) She's having a good time, and c) I can put her in the Jumperoo for a bit and actually get stuff done without having to worry about where she'll go and what she'll get into (See above post about mobility). She found the Xbox recently, so our latest adventure has been to keep that from her. Fun.

Too soon

My almost-7 month old seems to think she can crawl. She scoots around the whole house backwards. She can pull herself up onto her hands and knees all the time now and often goes into a full out plank position as if she's ready to do a push up. When she gets up she tries to reach for something and pull herself forward but she's just not quite there. She's trying really hard and gets pretty frustrated if she can't accomplish something. She's obviously a quick learner like her Daddy, not like me. I was one slow, lazy baby!

A new talent

Keeping busy and enjoying the weather

We finally got a week or so with no rain. YAY! Unfortunately it's coming back with a vengeance tomorrow, but that's besides the point. For now, we shall enjoy it! It's currently 24 outside. LOVE!

So our crazy month is just about up. Easter, Hannah's birthday, my birthday, election, Mother's Day and Morgan's birthday have all (finally) passed. Next up is Ryan's birthday, then the craziness dies down a little.

Somehow I didn't get a chance to get on here and talk for days about the election. Long story short, I didn't get to work it because Elections Canada cannot accommodate nursing mothers. Hopefully I'll get to do it next time. While I'm very upset that Harper won a majority government, I'm incredibly happy with the many other stories that came from May 2. NDP is our official opposition for the first time in Canadian history. Go, Jack, Go! Ignatieff stepped down as Liberal leader after an abominable finish, and Duceppe resigned, as the Bloc loses recognition as a formal party. Finally, Elizabeth May won her own riding and got the Green Party their very first seat in Parliament. There is one heck of a silver lining here after all. We can only go up from here, Canada.

Mother's Day was nice and quiet. We had my (belated) birthday party on May 7, after which Isaac, Addison and I stayed in the trailer. It was a really nice afternoon/night out at the lot with a camp fire and a few good friends. I got to sleep in the next morning as Isaac cleaned up. He made me breakfast at home and Addison and I spent the rest of the day shopping in Belleville with my Mom. It was perfect, being able to spend the day with my Mom and daughter. Mom bought us some flowers so we spent the afternoon fixing up the front garden beneath the picture window. It looks so much better already!

Morgan's turned one on Wednesday. I still cannot believe she's already one! Where did this past year go? She'll hold on to your finger and walk pretty quickly all around the house, and she can get up and down from the couch by herself. She's drinking milk and using sippy cups now. I see her often and I'm still in disbelief.

Ryan and Nicole had a small party for her with family and a few friends, an Eeyore cake and lots of presents. It was cute to watch her pick at her piece of cake and bat some balloons around. She got kind of cranky though, and had no interest in her birthday hat or any pictures.

Addison has just passed out on the floor in the Living Room as I write this, and Isaac is off measuring the lot with his Dad and Laine. I'm going to do some laundry. Hopefully I can get Mom's camera and upload some recent pictures.

Watching paint dry

That's what I did today. I wasted a day with my mom perfecting a brand new paint job on my front hallway, only to discover we were painting over an oil base. As the fantastic paint job dried, it began to peel. As we pulled the paint tape off, it began to peel off even more. We hadn't thought to primer, as the walls were basically white to begin with. The walls are textured, which adds to my frustrating (though they do look pretty when painted properly). We spent forever and a day trying to fix it and touch it all up. I'll have to wait until tomorrow to see what it looks like. Hopefully it'll be okay and we won't have to start over.

Now I know for next time? Unfortunately we only have three more spots left to paint in the entire house. I've learned my lesson a little too late.

I should probably go to bed now. I've tried to once already and failed miserably. Addison went right out and I felt really tired but just couldn't shut my brain off. Instead, I came downstairs and stared at my new half-ass green walls and did a load of laundry. Awesome.

Time flies

I can't believe it's already May! Addison is six months old. This year is flying by!

Kelly had been visiting up in Sudbury and came back home to see me on my birthday yesterday. I hadn't seen her since August. We got to catch up and play with Addison together all morning. She got engaged last weekend so there was a lot of wedding talk, of course. She probably won't get married for another few years (once she's done school) so I have plenty of time to try and convince her to have dresses like this:

 

and hats like this:

 

 Seriously though, the one thing she does know is her colour scheme: pale green and cream. So maybe something more along these lines:

Awesome, right? Haha. This will be fun. Congrats, to my best friend!

In other birthday news, we took Addison to the park after Kelly left. It was gorgeous outside. Finally! We've only had about two days so far where it hasn't been cold and rainy. Yesterday was 20+ out there. The park was flooded (as always) but the swings were fine. She seemed to enjoy herself. She hadn't slept at all the night before, so thankfully she went down for nearly two hours when we got home. After that, we went to my parents house for a bit.  Addison stayed with them while Isaac and I went for a nice long walk around town and dinner at our favourite local pub.  It was a very good day!