So, as I am sure most of you have noticed by now I have not been blogging lately.  As I would love to continue this, alas I have no time.  I realized with starting my own business, working, and taking care of Addy and my husband I needed to give up something.  This was that something.  I will continue to do small quick updates on facebook.

 

Addison's Dedication

We decided that Jesse's first Father's Day was a perfect time for Addy's dedication at church.  Our church only does baby dedications every two months or so and their last one was on Mother's Day.  Unfortunately I was out of town on Mother's Day, so we thought that Father's would be a great time to do it.  So during the church service our pastor invited us up on stage and introduced us and Addison.  Then he talked about the responsibility that God gives us as parents.  He talked about how this dedication was us asking the church to be a part of Addison's life too.  Then he prayed over our family and Addison.  It was special because we got to spend Father's Day with my dad and my other two brother's who are now dads too.  

The Hemphill family

Our beautiful little girl

Addison and Calvin

 Addison with her dad and grandpa at church

 Addison with her daddy on Father's Day!

I love this picture!!

Addison and Great Grandma Galles 

Randomness

These are just a few random pictures over the last month that I had to show off!!

 Addy's beautiful smile!

 Addy doing her "sniffle nose" pretty cute I have to admit!

 Totally chillin' with Harley

We had to try on her first swimsuit!  Can't wait to use it this summer! 

We love bath time at our house! 

This girl has some SERIOUS bath hair :)

Having fun on daddy's motorcycle

Family

Family

We had a birthday party for my younger brother today as his birthday was last week and they came to town for the weekend.  This was the first time that we had all 3 of the cousins together!  It was so fun!  It just so happened that Miss Addison turned 10 months old today and little Ella turned 1 month old today.  It was a beautiful evening out and we had a nice bbq.  My nephew Calvin got a new strider bike and he calls it his motorcycle.  He has the sound effects and the wrist throttle to go along with it :)  He rode that thing all over the culdesac and the yard.  He loves it!  He is always asking if "Adsin" can play with him, or do this or that, it's pretty cute!  It will be so fun when they can actually run around and play together!! 

Chelea and Calvin, Julie and Ella, Addison and I

9 Month well baby check

We went to the pediatrician today for Addy's 9 month well baby check.  We definitely have a very healthy baby on our hands.  The Dr. was very happy that we have been able to avoid any colds or flu so far this year.  He was also very impressed with her progression on solid foods.  Addison has rolled over now and then, but just doesn't like being on her tummy very long at all.  He noticed how strong her legs were and said with the way she is going she will probably just end up cruising/walking soon. We did find a small bump on her head a little smaller than the size of a pea a few months ago.  We asked him about it today.  He said it is most likely a pilomatricoma, a benign calcification/tumor.  He said at a young age it is nothing to worry about, but as she becomes an adult there is a small risk of it becoming cancerous.  So we will be keeping an eye on it just to make sure that it doesn't grow.  Sometime in the future we will probably have it removed.  So here are her 9 month stats:

Height - 30 inches - 98th percentile

Weight - 23lbs. 11oz. - 98th percentile

Head circ. - 18inches - 89th percentile

What a goofy girl!!

9 Months

9 Months

I can't believe that our little girl is already 9 months old.  On the day that Addy turned 9 months we had another beautiful little bundle of joy added to our family.  My brother and sister-in-law adopted a baby girl, Ella Grace who was born on 4/19/12.  She is an absolute precious beauty and we are so excited to have a girl cousin for Addison!  The Lord has truly blessed our family!

 Julie and I with our girls

 Our happy little girl!!

I love this one! 

Easter 2012

We had a wonderful Easter celebration this year. We felt Addy was a little too young to do an Easter basket for this year, but we will do one next year. Jesse's parents sent us a little stuffed bunny for her though and she loves it. We spent the afternoon at my parents after we went to church. Addy's cousin Calvin loves her and can't wait to see her and play with her whenever they come to town. He was so excited to see her. It was pretty cute! Jesse also had four days off work this week, so we got to have lots of family time all week long. It was so nice! We had some small projects to do around the house, so we worked on those too.

Can't wait for some better weather, b/c she loves it outside

Addy and her Easter bunny

Love this girl!! This is very reflective of her personality!