Baby Teether

So the Sunday before last, June 20th, I discovered that little Adalyn had a tooth! Bottom right front tooth. I called my parents to tell them and they sarcastically said, "So that's why she was so cranky all weekend!" Truth is, we had just gotten home from our trip to Vegas and she was good as gold. (Have I blogged about that yet??) Well since then, Addy has been a little fusser. She pretty much whines all day. I realized today that she has not one tooth, but two on the bottom. They are about the same height. So I don't know if they were just too little for me to tell before, or if the other one popped through really fast and that's why she's fussy. Either way, I just hope that whatever is bothering her will end soon!

Gummy Bears

As I was giving Brooklyn her gummy bear vitamins this morning, I sang her a little song to make her laugh:

"Gummy bears are yummy bears...
sometimes we eat them in our underwear!"

She scoffed at me and said, "No. We just eat them in our mouths."

Cookie Salad

The Sunday before last, we went to see beautiful little Britta Beck be blessed. There was a potluck afterwards and I brought Cookie Salad. There were quite a few requests for the recipe (also when Jason took it to work a few days later), so here it is!

This is the original recipe:

1 pint strawberries
2 cups seedless grapes
1 small can pineapple tidbits, drained
2 bananas, sliced
1 12 oz carton Cool Whip
1 3 oz package instant vanilla pudding
1 cup buttermilk
1 pkg fudge striped cookies, broken

Combine fruit. Mix Cool Whip, buttermilk, & dry pudding mix in a separate bowl. Fold into fruit. Just before serving, fold in broken cookies. Serves 20. (I doubled it for the blessing.)

You can vary the fruit. If you want it just like I made it, use 2 lbs. strawberries, 5 bananas, 1 can pineapple chunks (drained), and 1 can mandarin oranges (drained). (That's just for the single recipe, not doubled.) Oh, and I found that I much prefer the store brand fudge-striped cookies (I used Kroger brand) to the Keebler variety. Cheaper and not as waxy.

A Mommy's Job

I was at the computer the other day and Brooklyn came and tried to climb up on my lap. I didn't particularly want her on my lap, so I didn't try to help her. She was having a rough time and finally said, "You're the mommy! You have to help me!"

Half a Year!

Lovin' her curls

My parents pointed out today that they haven't seen pictures of Addy in a while. She turned 6 months old on the first. I can't believe it has gone by so fast! She really is a sweet baby with lots of giggles and smiles. She still isn't sleeping through the night and up til two days ago was still sleeping in her car seat in our room. Now she's sleeping in a crib in our room, so I guess she's making progress. She has actually slept longer stretches of time in a crib. She loves food of all kinds and has tried almost all of the flavors of baby food. She even likes eating graham crackers and baby cookies. Her stats at the doctor on Thursday were 26.5 inches long (75%), 17 lbs 8 oz (75%), and head was 43 cm (75%). So she's very proportionate. Also very chubby. =) She was very tired when I took these pictures but she's still cute.

Sweaty Feet

We went out to Grandma's today and Brooklyn got to play outside with the neighbor boys. Then she came back for a nap. While I was putting her to bed, I told her, "Ew, you have sweaty feet." She eagerly agreed, "Yeah!... just like yours!"

Closer to 30 than 20!

Jason turned 26 on Monday. This is how the world congratulated him...





And this was at like 10:30 in the morning... so it did stick around for a while. We slept in and then gathered the family on our bed to open presents. I gave him a new wallet with a gift card to Gamestop because he's been wanting a new Wii game. I also gave him a gift certificate to Sports Clips because he always complains about the way I cut his hair. (I don't really blame him...) Plus, they let you watch sports while they cut your hair!!! =) Brooklyn got him the Simpsons Scene It game. He thinks it might be too hard but we'll see. We went out to IHOP for breakfast as a family. I was impressed how cheaply we were able to eat. I had a buy one get one coupon for us and all of their kid's meals are $1.99, so the three of us each got our own meal and our total was under 10 bucks! We then stopped by Babies R Us to pick up some seat protectors for our new car. Jason thought it was hilarious that there were sprinklers on watering the snow. When we got home, Jason watched the finale of Celebrity Apprentice online while I cleaned the house up some. My cousin Hannah came over to do some stuff for BYU and then (the big surprise) Heather came over to BABYSIT!! I surprised Jason with a date to Red Robin. (Got his free birthday burger.) Then after dinner I surprised him with movie tickets to Iron Man 2 and a purse full of movie treats. (By the way, I got both of our tickets for $5 total... with enough left over on a gift card to buy a treat in the theater. No, it wasn't a dollar theater. Yes, I have mad couponing skills.) I'd say he had a pretty good day. Love you, Jason!